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This is a rare phrase in the documents consulted, but it provides early evidence of a freedom granted to colliers to stack coals on the surface.
places Wibsey
dates 1659

spellings turfpenny
A customary payment of one penny for the occupation of a piece of land, over and above the usual rents and services.
places Cottingham
dates 1282

spellings groundsill ground-sole
A foundation, a horizontal sill of wood or stone on which a timber-framed building was erected. As a verb to lay such a foundation.
dates 1335 1420 1446-1447 1500 1519 1538 1544 1620

spellings earth waller
The lower part of a wall or building, a foundation.
places Ripon York
dates 1392-1393 1419-1420 1424 1477 1497 1539

Foundations.
dates 1422 1486 1579 1601

spellings grove hole
These were the usual words for a lead-mine.
dates 1150-1199 1535 1563 1635 1673 1700 1705-1708 1721 1829

spellings groove

A plural of grove (1) on the lines of house, housing.
places Grinton
dates 1522 1566

places Mitton
dates 1710

A rare variant of grindlestone.
places Cottingley
dates 1622

To murmur or complain, linked with grouch and grudge.
dates 1472 1477 1486 1523

A pivot, usually of iron, fixed on a beam or axle and on which a wheel might turn, a bell swing, or a door open.
dates 1348 1433 1573 1604 1754

A mummer, one who goes about in costume on occasions such as Christmas eve or New Year’s eve.
places Huddersfield
dates 1757

spellings gole gool
places Selby Goole
dates 1306 1356 1362 1398 1411-1412 1412 1480 1540 1546

A type of nail, usually said to be large, and used in fixing gutters, although references in the churchwardens’ account of St Michael, Spurriergate, link such nails with ‘tingles’, in securing the bell wheels and carved angels’ wings.
places York Ripon
dates 1419 1456 1504 1520 1543-1544 1546-1547

dates 1665-1668 1679 1690 1760 1816

This was the original name for what we now call ‘Bonfire night or ‘Plot night’, the celebration on 5 November of the failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605.
places Slaithwaite
dates 1686 1785

An artificial watercourse.
dates 1392-1393 1418-1419 1420 1446-1447 1476 1501 1534 1552 1648

This may have been a word for two pieces of timber placed over a ditch as a bridge.
places Methley
dates 1509-1510 1590

spellings gile-fat
A vessel used in brewing, the vat in which the wort is left to ferment.
dates 1341 1405 1481 1529 1559 1611 1676 1700

spellings gile-house
The brew-house.
dates 1430 1450 1485 1538 1551

A sleeveless coat or jacket of mail, lighter than a hauberk.
dates 1251 1257 1391 1392

An alternative spelling of heck.
dates 1396-1397 1561 1570

A tool for breaking clods or chopping up roots and the like.
dates 1400 1421 1422 1563-1564 1571-1572 1588 1783

This was probably a short-handled tool with an iron cutting edge which could be reversed and used as a hammer.
places York Sheffield
dates 1402 1493 1512 1516 1690

A fairly common field-name, evidently given to land which required breaking up after being cleared of trees.
dates 1190 1336 1465 1507 1640

An alternative spelling of heckle, an implement used in the dressing of flax and hemp.
places Ripon
dates 1485

An obscure reference, possibly meaning rough-haired.
dates 1578

A horse of middle size and quality, for riding not hunting or heavy work.
dates 1504 1541 1550 1618 1708

The OED has examples from 1523 and says 'derivation unknown' but it occurs as a place-name element and Smith considered it to be a form of head, via Middle English haved (PNWR2/253). It was used of unploughed land in the open field, but was evidently distinct from headland.
dates 1577 1617 1642

spellings hafter
A handle, especially of a cutting implement.
places Sheffield
sources 1625
dates 1625

Of Old Norse origin; a word for a place where trees were felled, a clearing.
dates 1237 1315 1488 1524 1534 1540 1577-1578

An occupational word for a woodman, noted as a by-name.
dates 1297 1313 1469

Used for snakes of different kinds, and for the blindworm.
dates 1540 1541 1722

The hair of horses, deer and other animals had a wide variety of uses.
dates 1394-1395 1563 1615 1618

spellings haircloth
A coarse open fabric made of hair from animals, used particularly in kilns for drying malt and for straining or sieving.
dates 1394-1395 1485 1521 1567 1666

A maker of hair, haircloth.
places York
dates 1299-1300 1436 1487

A military weapon prominent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a kind of combination between a spear and a battle-axe.
dates 1552 1625

spellings haul
To draw, pull or haul.
dates 1469-1470 1693 1707 1784

Literally a cloth that was half the full length.
places Hull York
dates 1305 1467 1484

The moiety or half part.
dates 1486 1527 1538

A bed with a wooden back of medium height, short corner posts and without a canopy.
dates 1611 1670 1675 1700

A board or plank half an inch thick.
dates 1614 1619 1657 1663

spellings half-penny dole
Charity to the value of one half-penny, in bread or money, handed out at a funeral.
dates 1529 1531 1556 1571

Possibly a timber tree split down the middle.
places Harewood Hewick
dates 1703 1717

Cloth made in Halifax.
places York
dates 1485

A large house of a local landowner; the word was used later, jokingly, for names of common land.
dates 1565 1609

In northern dialects this was a partition wall in a cottage, particularly one which sheltered the room from an outside draught.
places Birthwaite
dates 1446-1458

This alternative word for ‘hall’, in the sense of the main room of the house, may have come into use in the reign of Henry VIII and examples have been noted during a period of at least eighty years.
dates 1540 1570 1612 1618

Tapestry or painted cloth for the walls of a hall or house.
dates 1426 1427 1484 1495 1579

An alternative word for the main living room of the house, on record from the seventeenth century.
dates 1331 1654

Probably the same as the half- or halve-net, listed as a Scottish word in the OED with references which date from 1538.
dates 1464-1465 1512-1513

Two curved pieces of wood which together form the collar of a draught horse, with hooks for the traces.
dates 1610 1628 1682 1743

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