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In mines, a fault or intrusion.
dates 1659 1691 1754 1812

A difficult word, used of places where the land is wet and spongy from springs (EDD).
dates 1285 1538

A small earthen glazed pot, typically one used by apothecaries for ointments.
dates 1525 1588 1612

The gallon could be a dry measure for corn, bread, and the like but it was more commonly a vessel for holding liquids.
dates 1443 1519 1575 1598 1675 1698

A kind of narrow ribbon, of gold, silver or silk thread, used for trimming articles.
places Brandsby Selby
dates 1620 1693

A small, strong breed of horse, originally from Galloway in Scotland but popular in Yorkshire from the seventeenth century at least.
dates 1654 1669 1727 1743

An iron bar in the chimney from which pots could be suspended.
dates 1432 1558 1583 1634 1676

A gallows-shaped apparatus, made of iron, from which cooking pots could be suspended.
dates 1531 1535 1571

The iron gallows tree was a support for a pot over a fire, probably similar to the gallow-balk.
dates 1552 1557 1657

A castrated boar or hog.
dates 1549 1642

A person employed to prevent poaching.
dates 1733 1738

An athlete, a player at games, a gambler, often used pejoratively.
dates 1598-1599 1602 1607-1608 1697 1735

A set of articles such as the parts of a wheel which are usually taken together.
dates 1318 1485 1568 1599 1627 1653

A regional verb meaning to go.
dates 1454 1540

A vagabond or wandering beggar; a word sometimes applied pejoratively to strangers.
dates 1488 1572 1682-1685

A four-footed wooden stand for barrels (OED).
dates 1415 1574 1612 1679

gap

This could be a breach in a fence.
dates 1285 1366 1570 1616 1690

To stare insolently, more usually pronounced ‘gawp’ in the West Riding.
places Cowton
dates 1612

A regional alternative to ‘gap’, in the sense of a customary opening in a boundary fence. It marked the right of way and would have a name.
places Methley
dates 1573

gar

To make, to cause, now obsolete.
dates 1428 1495 1525 1667

To ornament a garment with strips of braid, lace, velvet, etc.
dates 1538 1558 1568

An adjective commonly used of cattle, possibly meaning striped. If this is the correct interpretation it may be connected with ‘gard’ as a verb.
dates 1541 1545 1562 1590 1600

An alternative term for tutor, possibly from confusion with 'guardian'.
dates 1545 1574 1579 1588 1592 1656

A garden plot, the site of a garden.
dates 1546 1557 1576 1584

Originally a safe for meat, but then a chest or travelling trunk for valuables.
dates 1402 1444 1451 1487 1562 1567

A disease in cattle, sheep and pigs which affects the head and throat.
dates 1608 1688 1820

A northern form of ‘yarn’, recorded from the fourteenth century.
dates 1389 1457 1542 1566 1570 1666

Money extorted from a new prisoner, either as a jailer’s fee or as drink-money for the other prisoners (OED).
dates 1659 1721

A set of vessels for table use, typically of pewter. A complete set was for twelve people.
dates 1408 1434 1488 1535 1568

An apparatus for winding ‘garn’ or yarn; a rotatory appliance according to the OED.
dates 1504 1576 1634

Final ‘th’ was regularly not pronounced in some dialects, notably in a suffix such as ‘forth’, so ‘garr’ was a characteristic regional spelling of ‘garth’.
dates 1591 1611

A northern word for a commotion or noisy row.
dates 1606 1612 1725

A rare spelling of kersey.
places Slaithwaite
dates 1619

Brushwood, used to reinforce weak points in the hedgerows, and to make dead hedges.
dates 1396-1397 1396 1411 1453 1507 1596-1597 1615

Usually a fold or yard close to the house or other buildings, but used also regularly of much larger enclosures.
dates 1100-1199 1540 1558 1629 1642 1663 1722

spellings girth (2)
The wooden hoop used by coopers in barrel-making.
dates 1399 1403 1424 1468-1469 1483 1525 1528 1565 1579 1669 1694 1755

In general usage a 'gate' is a form of barrier, a door, set across a gap in a wall or hedge, and it can be opened to allow people and animals to pass from one place to another.
dates 1286 1372 1558 1573 1694 1713 1746 1776

spellings beast grass cattle gate
In numerous northern land deeds the word ‘gate’ referred to a right for animals such as cattle, horses, sheep and swine to ‘go’ onto certain grazing lands, it was a right to pasturage.
dates 1474 1479 1538 1539 1595 1615 1659 1694 1700

A more specialised meaning of 'gate' was in the sense of a right of way.
dates 1417 1456-1457 1483 1615 1642 1769

The site of a gate.
places Huddersfield
dates 1690

spellings gaudy
A large ornamental bead, characteristically found at intervals in rosaries.
dates 1453 1454 1486 1498 1500 1532 1543

An implement noted in the wills of craftsmen, used for measuring or regulating the penetration of a cutting tool.
places Aske
dates 1576

spellings gaole
A regional spelling of gable, defined in the OED as the triangular piece of wall from the eaves to the summit, although colloquially the ‘gable end’ seems to refer to the whole wall.
dates 1420 1617 1698 1728 1811

The term occurs quite frequently in early Yorkshire documents for fixed payments of a few pence, sometimes in lieu of services.
dates 1200-1299 1300 1531 1546

An iron crowbar or lever, noted regularly from the fourteenth century.
dates 1396-1397 1425 1544 1697

Probably a local spelling of ‘cobiron’, the frames on which the spit was supported in front of the fire.
places Lepton Halifax
dates 1644 1661

Probably for ‘gaudiess’.
places Staveley
dates 1558

spellings gelder geldherd gueld
To geld was to castrate a male animal and this was a significant and necessary operation in animal husbandry, especially for institutions such as the great monasteries which had large flocks and herds.
dates 1295-1296 1301 1310 1419 1435 1526 1549 1559 1580 1600 1642 1729

Apparently an animal, possibly the female ferret or polecat.
dates 1445

Formerly a popular game in the West Riding textile area, also known as ‘knurr and spell’ (EDD). The gell is the small wooden ball.
places Keighley
dates 1794

spellings gemow
Literally the word for ‘twin’ but used commonly of two-part iron fittings. In most contexts it was plural and clearly referred to hinges.
dates 1396-1397 1446 1520 1537 1664 1677

A spirit distilled from grain, and flavoured with juniper berries.
places West Riding
dates 1720 1734

The word ‘gentleman’ was applied properly to a man who was entitled to bear arms but did not rank among the nobility.
dates 1399 1426 1547

Steel imported from Central Europe.
places York Sheffield
dates 1350 1681

spellings girsom gressome grassom garsom
A gersum was a premium or fine, paid by a tenant to his landlord when he entered on his holding.
dates 1279 1394-1395 1509 1521 1551 1570 1572 1593 1637 1651

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