1. 13 Nicholson's Annals of Kendal refer to hosiers taking worsted to the villages and collecting stockings.

2. A craft which had once been profitably combined with farming became a miserable cottage industry dependent upon the towns and the bag-hosiers.

3. Bretons Britons Britton Stetson benthos bestirs bethorn betroth bettors bisters bistort bistres bistros bittern bitters boniest bornite Borshts bossier bothers bothies estrins ethions henbits heriots heroins hinters histone hitters hoister hornets hornist horstes hosiers hotness inserts inshore intorts nestors norites noshers nosiest obtests