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Little Washbourne was first mentioned in a copy of a document dated to 780, in the form Uassanburnan.The name is from the Old English wæsse (genitive wæssan), meaning "swamp", and burna, meaning "stream", and so means "stream with land subject to flooding".
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' host's table ') menu is a menu where multi-course meals with only a few choices are charged at a fixed total price. Such a menu may be called prix fixe ([pʁi fiks] pree-feeks; "fixed price"). The terms set meal and set menu are also used. Table d'hôte contrasts with à la carte, where customers may order any of the separately priced menu ...
Berni Inn was a chain of British steakhouses, established in 1955. It was established by brothers Frank and Aldo Berni , who modelled the chain on restaurants they had seen in America. The restaurants introduced the postwar British public to its own home-grown restaurant chain, which came with stylised restaurants with Tudor-looking false oak ...
Roman hobnails were shoe tacks, a type of clinching nail; the narrowing tip was turned by a last held inside the sole as the nail was driven.So the tip did a U-turn back into the sole, clinching the nail in place.
An original caliga found at Qasr Ibrim, Egypt, c. 1st century BC – 1st century AD. Caligae (sg.: caliga) are heavy-duty, thick-soled openwork boots, with hobnailed soles. They were worn by the lower ranks of Roman cavalrymen and foot-soldiers, and possibly by some centurions. [1]
German jackboots from 1914 German Bundeswehr soldiers wearing jackboots with an M47 tank in the background, 1960. The second meaning of the term is derived from the first, with reference to their toughness, but is unrelated in design and function, being a combat boot designed for marching, rising to at least mid-calf, with no laces, sometimes a leather sole with hobnails, and heel irons.
A pattern of glassware: (sometimes called Fenton Hobnail) where the body of the piece has a regular array of bumps, as if finished with glass hobnails; A popular song from 1907, performed by Billy Williams "Hobnailed liver" is medical jargon for cirrhosis of the liver; Cellular morphology pathognomonic for clear cell adenocarcinoma of the ovary