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A basket, used in mining to move coal from underground to the surface.
dates 1616 1694 1707 1708 1754 1787 1840

A person 'driving' corn, that is one who acted as a middleman, buying corn where it was produced and transporting it to market retailers.
dates 1551 1589

spellings quoin
The OED has ‘corner-stone’ as an alternative for ‘quoin’ with examples from 1382 and 1557.
dates 1446-1447 1688 1719 1786

spellings cornish
Alternative spellings of a building term with a long history in Italy. It referred to ornamental mouldings.
dates 1621 1682 1724 1836

spellings corporax
A cloth, of linen, velvet or other material, on which the consecrated elements were placed during the celebration of mass, and which was then used as a cover. They were usually conserved in a case.
dates 1498 1524 1544 1558

A ribbon of silk or other material which served as a ground for ornamentation of a girdle, with embroidery or metalwork (OED).
places Adel Leeds
dates 1543 1549

A customary gift to the minister, made by a dying person and written into his will, often a cherished item.
dates 1393 1429 1488 1551

A piece of armour which protected the body. A muster roll records the possession of such a piece.
places Dalton Dewsbury
dates 1586 1591 1637

A hanging, for a bed or the walls of a room.
dates 1381 1423 1458

A container or vessel, particularly for liquids.
dates 1313-1314 1454 1582

It has several meanings, all associated with small buildings.
dates 1310-1311 1573 1595 1625 1687 1739

spellings cottage house cottager cottagry
A cottage was formerly a small dwelling, typically associated with families or individuals of lowly status.
dates 1443 1574 1578 1589 1600 1650 1681 1697 1722

Possibly an unusual spelling of ‘cut’, a word found in the records of Esholt ironworks in contexts where the meaning is not always obvious.
places Esholt
dates 1567-1568

A pin which could be inserted through a hole in order to secure something such as a bolt: they were typically made of iron and used frequently in connection with church bells.
dates 1544 1573 1595 1642 1665 1727

Just two examples have been noted, and the inference is that they referred to a type of comfortable chair, possibly a structure on which one might recline.
places Selby
dates 1689

An uncommon word, possibly meaning embroidered.
places York
dates 1401 1430 1437

Possibly a couch-maker or upholsterer (OED), or an embroiderer, since the trade flourished in the first half of the fifteenth century.

A cover for a table.
dates 1572

A rare word, noted in a tanner’s will but of uncertain meaning, perhaps ‘laid flat’.
places Frizinghall
dates 1707

To draw something towards oneself, to scrape, sweep.
dates 1651 1693 1789

The iron blade on a plough which makes a vertical cut into the soil and is fixed in front of the share.
dates 1485 1543 1595 1669

A reckoning of money due, a short form of ‘account’.
places Adwalton
dates 1558

A table or desk where money might be counted.
dates 1486 1498 1521 1558 1644 1657

spellings counterfoot
The OED links these two spellings with meanings such as 'imitated, forged' or 'made to a pattern, wrought', even 'made of inferior materials' but in Yorkshire some examples suggest that it came to mean a basin, made of some kind of metal.
dates 1433 1486 1524 1537 1544 1546 1567

Often referring to regions or districts of varying sizes.
dates 1530 1534 1547

A cart with closed sides and ends, usually with two wheels, suitable for carrying loads such as dung and lime.
dates 1494 1545 1575 1589 1616 1647 1653 1656

spellings coupling couple gate
In contexts where sheep are listed, a ‘couple’ was a ewe and a lamb.
dates 1563 1575 1753

In the phrase ‘by course’ it means ‘in turn’ (OED).
places Mount Grace
dates 1520

A powerful horse, one that might be used in tournaments.
dates 1413 1460

In the great manor of Wakefield the court baron handled the transfers of land by its tenants, and their registration was considered an essential process. The verb ‘to court’ recorded successful transfers.
dates 1542 1579 1588

A large sideboard with doors in the bottom section and open shelving above for the storing and display of pewter, crockery, etc.
places Eshton
dates 1656

A short coat, cloak or tabard, of coarse material. It was a garment in frequent use in the fourteenth century.
dates 1257 1301 1310 1341 1378

A verb, used when a stallion was mated with a mare.
dates 1614 1704 1785

A cloth used as a covering for the head, said to have been worn chiefly by women, although some early examples were bequests to men.
places Easingwold
dates 1346

The specialist weaver who made coverlets, that is the counterpanes or uppermost bed covers.
places Crofton
dates 1586

Literally a cloth cover.
places Halifax
dates 1537

With a cover.
places Adel
dates 1503

A paid grazing right for a cow.
places Elmswell Lepton
dates 1642 1665

In the example noted here the person named was not a dairyman but something like a town herdsman cum pinder
places Castleford
dates 1692

A cowl was a tub or cask for holding or transporting water.
places Fixby Elmswell
dates 1567 1664

spellings cowling lead cowling tub
Evidently vessels used in brewing, possibly for ‘cooling’ but also comparable with ‘cowl’.
dates 1566 1574 1693

A place-name, perhaps part of the town's common meadow.
dates 1324 1333 1364 1525 1541 1570

Wine made from the blossoms of the cowslip.
dates 1409 1619 1728-1729 1734

spellings coin quoin coign
A stone which served to form the angle of a wall.
dates 1409 1619 1728-1729

spellings crab-tree
The name given to the wild apple.
dates 1251 1355 1481 1616 1653-1654

spellings crabbrake
Doubtless a type of ‘brake’, that is an implement for beating and crushing flax, possibly made of wood from the crab-tree, or an allusion to its claw-like shape, but the exact meaning is not clear.
places York Brayton
dates 1481 1669 1682

Flawed, unsound, possibly counterfeit when used of money.
dates 1537 1688

An implement for crushing hemp.
places South Cave
dates 1593 1621

spellings craddle creddle
A baby’s cradle, or any framework of bars, cords, rods, etc, united by lateral ties; a hurdle-like structure (OED).
dates 1433 1581 1642 1731

These were the teeth attached to the cradle on a scythe.
places Elmswell
dates 1642

To make firm.
places Elmswell Clapham
dates 1642 1747

A dialect word meaning to hobble or move awkwardly.
places Slaithwaite
dates 1781

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