roughly-forged

Updated: August 5, 2026

There is a fire-place for you, and the mark in the chimney-back of five hundred Christmas logs. Doubtless this great stone pavement of a floor was carpeted with straw at banquets, after the illustrious Becket's pattern. Here is a memento of the feast hanging up at the top of the kitchenward door a pair of roughly-forged, rusty handcuffs amalgamated into one pair of jaws, like a muskrat trap.

Various - Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 : Great Britain and Ireland, part 1

There is a fire-place for you, and a mark in the chimney-back of five hundred Christmas logs. Doubtless this great stone pavement of a floor was carpeted with straw at these banquets, after the illustrious Becket's pattern. Here is a memento of the feast hanging up at the top of the kitchenward door; a pair of roughly-forged, rusty handcuffs amalgamated into one pair of jaws, like a musk-rat trap.

Elihu Burritt - A Walk from London to John O'Groat's