Froe-maul

identifier

ID 1055
morphology

craft

craft

holotype

MOT V S 4840 L=46cm D=11cm WT=1740gr
description

A froe-maul is a piece of hard round wood (including hornbeam) of about 30-40 cm, one end of which has been cut thinner to serve as a handle.

With the froe-maul, the cooper strikes the cleaving knife and the lath maker, on the cleaving iron. [MOT]