And the king's servants, that put them in, ceased not to make the oven hot with rosin, pitch, tow, and small wood;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Brimstone. Literally, naphtha, (Haydock) or bitumen, which was very inflammable.
Tow, besmeared with pitch. (Calmet)
Dry (malleolis) "bundles "of sticks, or ropes, covered with pitch. (Haydock)
Manipuli spartoei pice contecti. (Nonius.)
