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flesh-hook
ˈflesh-hook 1. A hook for removing meat from the pot.c 1325 in Rel. Ant. I. 292 Summe notes..arn..kroken a-weyward als a fleshoke. c 1386 Chaucer Sompn. T. 22 Ful hard it is, with fleischhok or with oules To ben y-clawed. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 166/1 Flesche hooke, creagra, fuscina. 1514 Barclay Cyt. &...
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Flesh-hook
Notable examples:
The very elaborate Bronze Age Dunaverney flesh-hook, found in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
The Bronze Age Little Thetford flesh-hook , found in Cambridgeshire, England
The word
The word flesh-hook is relatively modern.
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Dunaverney flesh-hook
Description
Along the top of the flesh-hook are five birds, two large ones next to three smaller ones. The flesh-hook was originally linked by pieces of oak shaft, only one fragment of which remains extant.
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Little Thetford flesh-hook
Uses
The word flesh-hook is relatively modern. The use of this flesh-hook in the Bronze Age can only be speculated.
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flesh
▪ I. flesh, n. (flɛʃ) Forms: 1 flǽsc, flǽc, (2 flec, flesce), 3 flæsce, flæs(h, flexs(s, fless(e, 4 south. vlesse, 3–4 fles, flei(e)s, fle(y)hs, 4–5 fleisch, 3–5 fle(c)che, flesch(e, 3 south. vlesche, (3 flashe, fleschs, 4 fleschsch), 3–6 flessh(e, (4 fleisshe), 4–6 fleshe, (6 fleash, flehsse, flesz...
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Hook
crocheting thread or yarn
Drapery hook, for hanging drapery
Dress hook, fashion accessory
Ear hook, to attach earrings
Fish hook, used to catch fish
Flesh-hook
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hook
▪ I. hook, n.1 (hʊk) Forms: 1 hóc (hooc), 2–4 hoc, 3–5 hok, ? 3, 4–6 hoke, 4 Sc. houk, howk, 4–6 Sc. huke, 5–7 hooke, (6 hoocke, 7 Sc. hwick), 7– hook. [OE. hóc = MLG. hôk, MDu. hoec, Du. hoek, MLG. hôk corner, angle, nook, point of land. In ablaut relation with OE. haca ‘pessulus’, a (? hooked) bol...
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stress
▪ I. stress, n. (strɛs) Forms: 4–6 stres, 4–7 stresse, 5 stresce, strest, 6 Sc. straisse, 6– stress. [Prob. an aphetic form of distress n., which occurs earlier in all the older senses; in ME. destresse and stresse often appear as variant readings. It is, however, not unlikely that this formation ha...
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Little Thetford
a pre–701 BC palstave at nearby Fordey farm, Barway, and at Little Thetford, a middle Bronze Age (1600–1001 BC) rapier in 1953, and a late Bronze Age flesh-hook
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earth
▪ I. earth, n.1 (ɜːθ) Forms: α. 1–4 eorðe, 1– Northumb. eorðu, eorðe, 2 horðe, 3–6 erð(e, 4–5 irthe, urth(e, 4–6 yerth(e, herthe, 5 ȝerþ, yorth, 6 earthe, yearth(e, (erith), 8–9 Sc. yirth, 9 Sc. and dial. yearth, orth, 6– earth. β. 3–5 erd(e, 6 eard, eird, 8 yird, 9 Sc. and north. dial. yird, yeird,...
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Ancient Celtic religion
Examples include the Torrs Pony-cap and Horns (Scotland), Basse Yutz Flagons (France), Wandsworth Shield (England), and the Dunaverney flesh-hook (late
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Prehistoric Ireland
The rather earlier Dunaverney flesh-hook (perhaps 1050–900 BC) is suggestive of a culture where elite feasting was important, and reflects influence from
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Repatriation (cultural property)
Cuileáin, Londesborough Brooch, swords, half of the Dowris Hoard, part of the Mooghaun North Hoard, the Dunaverney flesh-hook, the Kells Crozier, torcs
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Timeline of art
figurines, the Shropshire bulla, the rock carvings at Bidzar, the Da Yu ding, and the Da Ke ding
2nd Millennium BC in art
1050 BC – The Dunaverney flesh-hook
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Mooghaun in Ireland, (1150–750 BC)
Gold bowl with intricate repoussé decoration from Leer, Lower Saxony, northern Germany, (1100–800 BC)
Dunaverney flesh-hook
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