Is always knotting threads."
Translated from the Libellus de Admirandis beati Cuthberti Miraculis of Reginald, monk of Durham, by Rev. J. Rain. Durham, 1855.
Chronicle of John Hardyng, circ. 1470.
Temp. Rich. II. In their garments "so much pouncing of chesell to make holes, so much dragging (zigzagging) of sheers," etc.—Good Parson, Chaucer.
Percy, Reliques of Ancient Poetry, vol. iii.