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Isaac Kremer/ November 21, 2025/ / 0 comments

A tool with the blade set at right angles to the handle. Its edge was on the bottom of the blade, the back of which was struck with a mallet or a maul. It was used by coopers to rive barrel staves and by carpenters in getting out the old riven laths and clapboards. (Isham, 1928)

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