Shoes and boots are, generally speaking, better made at Florence than in any other part of Italy: the usual price charged for the former is eight pauls the pair; and for the latter from thirty to forty pauls. 1836, Mariana Starke, Travels in Europe and in the Island of Sicily, page 569:
As soon as the horse again begins to move, the paul will take into the teeth of the ratchet-wheel, and restore to the fly-wheel its original speed. 1850, The Mechanic's Magazine, Register, Journal and Gazette, page 517: