mincing-bowls

Updated: May 16, 2025

He was an itinerant cooper by trade, and made for the farmers' wives their butter-tubs and butter-ladles, mincing-bowls and coggies, and for the men, whip-stalks, axe handles, and the like. But in the boys' eyes he was guilty of a horrible iniquity. He was a dog-killer.

Ralph Connor - Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry