Obs. Also 8 foudenhed. [f. foulden, var. of FOLDEN ppl. a. + HEAD.]
1747. Hooson, Miner’s Dict., Foudenhed, a small Pick, and the least of all the Tools that belong to a Miner … so thin and slender, that it will not abide to have an Eye struck in it … but is made by laping over in form of a Noose, without any Head at all. Ibid., O iv b. Foulden-Head.
