frame

1) As a verb it is still used in dialect to mean ‘to work purposefully’, and it is commonly employed in the admonition ‘frame thissen’.

In the following reference the idea is that the horse has made a good start to its work on the farm: 1797 Leading lime and spreading it … Our new horse frames very well, Sessay.

places Sessay
dates 1797

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