cheese heck

In the 1400s and 1500s this was a relatively common spelling of chimney in the West Riding although I have found no reference to its use in major dictionaries.

places Mirfield Wakefield Halifax

sources Oliver Mirfield's will, 1462 Yorkshire Archaeological Jo... Nicholas Savill's will 1557

dates 1461 1498 1557

chimney

spellings chimneth kymnay chimley

The flue which carries smoke from a fire up into the open air.

places Eshton Scriven Batley Sewerby York Roundhay Woodsome Whitley

sources Yorkshire Archaeological Jo... YAS Record Series Henry Bowet's inventory, 1423 Thoresby Society Publications Thomas Lord Wharton's inven... Kaye Commonplace Book Notebook and diary, 1598-1704 Dr Kaye's Diary

dates 1317 1377 1423 1519 1538 1568 1573 1598 1682 1696

chimney stead

If this was originally the location of a moveable chimney, it later became the space beneath the flue.

places Beverley

sources Wetherby session roll Janua...

dates 1689

chincough

An epidemic distemper common in children, now more usually called ‘hooping-cough’ (OED).

places Burghwallis

sources Parish Registers

dates 1785

chirurgeon

An earlier spelling of surgeon.

places Thurlstone Selby

sources Diary of Adam Eyre 1641-168... William Beilby's administra... Jonathan Coates' administra...

dates 1647 1691 1695

chisel

spellings treate chesil

A variant spelling of 'chesil' meaning gravel. It came to be used of coarse flour, or bran which has a gritty character.

places York Elmswell

sources YAS Record Series vol. 1 Henry Best's Farming Book

dates 1589 1642

chop

The jaw.

places Holmfirth

sources South Yorkshire collection

dates 1716

chop-kiln

A kiln where chopped wood was dried for use in the lead-smelting process.

places Buckden

sources Raistrick & Jennings, Lead ... Wetherby session roll Janua...

dates 1702 1720

chopping bill

Usually a hedging-bill, that is a heavy, thick knife with a hooked end, used for laying or pruning hedges.

places Lepton Slaithwaite Selby

sources Gamaliell Bingley's invento... Colne Valley collection George Cooke's will, 1682 Samuel Cutler's will, 1687

dates 1644 1681 1686 1699

chopping-clog

spellings chopping-stock

A large block of timber on which firewood could be chopped.

places Pudsey Lepton

sources Margaret Hunter's inventory... Gamaliell Bingley's invento...

dates 1633 1644

chopping knife

A heavy knife, a cleaver.

places Selby

sources York Memoranda Book

dates 1533

chopwood

The fuel used in smelting lead.

places Grassington Buckden Esholt

sources Raistrick & Jennings, Lead ... Pontefract session roll May... Agreement concerning fir tr...

dates 1658 1709 1763

christen

spellings cristen

Early alternative spellings of Christian.

places York

sources YAS Record Series vol. 105 Richard Ugdon's will, 1545

dates 1513 1545

christening sheet

A sheet in which a child would be christened.

places Slaidburn Selby

sources YAS Record Series John Mackenfield's inventor...

dates 1621 1656

church

As a verb it meant ‘to take to church’, where purifying rites would be performed.

places North Muskham Kirkburton

sources YAS Record Series Parish Registers

dates 1520-1521 1567

churn

spellings kirn

The implement used for making butter.

places Ripon Hipswell Barlby South Cave Westerdale Sedbusk Brayton East Marton

sources Margaret Pigott's inventory... Francys Wandysforde's will ... Grace Halliday's inventory,... Elisabeth Simson's inventor... Robert Roger's will, [1559] Gregorie Mallorie's invento... Edward Collitt the elder's ... Jane Fulthrop's will 1566 George Redmonds Papers

dates 1485 1558 1559 1566 1628 1663 1676 1743

cinder hill

A heap of slag or scorić, the dross thrown off from iron in a bloomery or forge.

places Lepton Handsworth Sheffield

sources Redmonds, Kirkburton, Shepl... Lay and Clerical Taxation S... Fenwick, Poll Tax

dates 1297 1379 1584

cingle

spellings single

A girdle or girth, possibly for a sword belt or one of leather which passed round a horse's body and secured a pack on its back.

places Oxthorne Scarborough York

sources John de Harpham's will, 1348 John de Scardeburgh's inven... York Memoranda Book

dates 1348 1395 1470

cistern

spellings sestern sestrin

A tank or reservoir; a large vessel or container for holding liquids, often made of lead.

places Ripon Mirfield York Wilberfoss Settrington Fountains Abbey Harrogate Selby Brandsby

sources William Stowe Senior's will... Oliver Mirfield's will, 1462 William Coltman's inventory... Christopher Wilberfosse's w... YAS Record Series vol. 1 Fountains Abbey Rentals, 15... William Mathew's will, [162... William Moxon's inventory, ... Richard Cholmeley's book 16...

dates 1430 1461 1481 1532 1533 1600 1612 1627-1628 1693

cithern

An instrument of the guitar kind that was strung with wire and played with a plectrum.

places Brandsby

sources Richard Cholmeley's book 16...

dates 1611

clabbord

spellings clapboard clapholt

These words may have the same meaning: initially they referred to split oak boards which were imported from the Baltic and used by coopers for barrel-staves.

places Hull York Ripon

sources Nicholas Elys' and William ... Thomas Alcok's and William ... Raine, York Minster Fabric ... Ripon account book Yorkshire Archaeological Jo...

dates 1453 1471-1472 1520 1526

clam

A clamp, an iron device for holding items together, a kind of vice.

places York

sources Raine, York Minster Fabric ... John Alayn's will, 1509

dates 1399 1512

clap

As a verb it had a variety of meanings but could describe the action of bringing the hand down sharply on a person or an object.

places Clayton Bradfield

sources Quarter Session rolls 1662-... Rotherham session roll Augu...

dates 1676 1684

clapper

Rattles, used to summon people to church on the last three days in Holy Week.

places York

sources York House Book 10

dates 1520

claps

spellings barrand

A vulgar word for venereal disease.

places South Crosland

sources George Redmonds Papers

dates 1820

clap-table

Possibly a small folding table.

places Selby

sources Robert Wilson's will, 1661

dates 1656

clatch

spellings clatch-iron

In a colliery, a device in which colliers sat as the 'gin' took them up and down the pit shaft.

places Elland South Crosland Stainland Derbyshire Northowram Stretton, Derbyshire

sources Pike, Industrial Revolution Articles of agreement South... Pontefract session roll Apr... Hunter Archaeological Socie... Turner, Oliver Heywood's Di... Benson & Neville, Yorkshire...

dates 1631 1666 1673 1694 1729 1842

cleam

To smear or bedaub, often with sticky matter.

places Brandsby Wakefield

sources Richard Cholmeley's book 16... Redmonds, Huddersfield & Di...

dates 1620 1686

clean deals

In most contexts the meaning of ‘clean’ is absolutely clear but references to ‘clean’ deals needs some explanation.

places Esholt Elmswell

sources Surtees Society Publications Henry Best's Farming Book

dates 1642 1705

cleanse

To make clean, to keep clear of rubbish or any unwanted matter.

places Cortworth Elsecar Bishopside Tong Bradley North Bierley Ripon

sources Yorkshire Archaeological Jo... Hunter Archaeological Socie... Fountains Abbey Rentals, 15... Articles of agreement betwe... Spencer-Stanhope papers Agreement between Sir Georg... Ripon account book

dates 1486 1520 1684 1704 1719 1750

cleave

This verb lies behind the common term ‘cleft wood’ but the verb is rarely found in the records.

places West Bretton

sources YAHS Record Series vol. 3

dates 1601

cleft

spellings cliff clift

To cleave wood was to split it along the grain, using iron wedges and a heavy hammer: ‘cleft’ and its variants referred to pieces of cleft wood or board.