rolling pins

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Perhaps because of their similarity to sailors’ belaying pins, rolling pins became associated with seafarers and romance. It is said that sailors bored at sea would carve unique rolling pins out of lignum vitae and attach whale bone handles to make a gift for their lover back home.

Starting in the 18th century, glassworks in English port towns like Bristol, London, Sunderland, and Newcastle began producing hollow glass rolling pins that sailors would give to loved ones, particularly young women they were hoping to woo for marriage.

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