made

1) Of timber, unwrought but in ready to use planks.

In the inventory of John Wiseman of Selby, a shipwright who died in 1680, were: 102˝ tunns of timber, at 16s, Ł82, in made plancke, Ł18.

places Selby
dates 1680

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2) Mature or fully-grown: used of animals.

The term has been noted only in the western dales, and almost always in connection with ‘beasts’: 1619 made beastes, twinter beastes, Malham

1644 2 of the said heffers were made beasts

and the other was younger, Allerton: 1674 pasteridge for 13 made beasts, Hanlith. From the eighteenth century it occurred as ‘full made’: 1730 2 beastgates or feeding and depasturing for two severall full made beasts in Cracoe Green

1786 1 beastgate for one full made beast … and 21 sheepgates for 21 full made sheep, Buckden.

dates 1619 1644 1674 1730 1786

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