Traditions of Edinburgh . slip or bar ofiron, starting out from the door vertically, serrated on the sidetowards the door, and provided with a small ring, which, beingdrawn roughly along the serrations or nicks, produced a harshand grating sound, to summon the servant to open. Anotherterm for the article was a crow. In the fourth eclogue ofEdward Fairfax, a production of the reign of James VI. and L,quoted in the Aftises1 Library, is this passage : Now, farewell Eglon ! for the sun stoops low,And calling guests before my sheep-cots door ;Now clad in white, I see my porter-crow ;Great kings oft
Traditions of Edinburgh . slip or bar ofiron, starting out from the door vertically, serrated on the sidetowards the door, and provided with a small ring, which, beingdrawn roughly along the serrations or nicks, produced a harshand grating sound, to summon the servant to open. Anotherterm for the article was a crow. In the fourth eclogue ofEdward Fairfax, a production of the reign of James VI. and L,quoted in the Aftises1 Library, is this passage : Now, farewell Eglon ! for the sun stoops low,And calling guests before my sheep-cots door ;Now clad in white, I see my porter-crow ;Great kings oft want these blessings of the poor : PINS OR RISPS. 227 with the following note : The ring of the door, called a crow,and when covered with white linen, denoted the mistress of thehouse was in travel. It is quite appropriate to this explanationthat a small Latin vocabulary, published by Andrew Simpson in1702, places among the parts of a house, Corvex—a clapper orringle Hardly one specimen of the pin, crow, or ringle now. .1,1ii
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