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English Industries of the Middle Ages

Note 100 — Chapter II · MINING—IRON

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The unworked bloom was called a 'loop,' which appears to be derived from the French loup, a wolf, the German equivalent, Stück, being applied to such a mass of iron.—Swank, Iron in All Ages, 80.

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