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In the past, in Yorkshire, the township or townships which made up the parish frequently had subdivisions which had their own identity and some degree of autonymy: these were called hamlets.
dates 1294 1339 1464 1522 1599-1600

A heavy implement with a solid head used for beating or driving nails.
dates 1587 1623

The workman who operated the power-driven hammer in a forge.
dates 1593 1659 1727

The water wheel which powered the tilt hammer in a forge.
dates 1646-1654 1692 1781

A basket of the type carried by pack-horses.
dates 1549 1720

A word with an obscure history but apparently the name originally of a kind of sport, commented on in some detail in the OED, in which one person challenged an article that belonged to his opponent, offering something in return.
places Spofforth
dates 1692

A spelling of handkerchief that was common in literary use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and which remained in everyday speech for some time (OED).
places Richmond
dates 1675

As a noun this occurs frequently in the inventories of cloth-dressers and it had a very specific meaning. Briefly, the 'handles' were a wooden frame set with teasles which was used to raise the nap on cloth.
dates 1484 1544 1558 1576 1607 1618 1702 1703

A rare and now obsolete phrase which formerly meant ‘rashly’ or ‘without deliberation’; in this case possibly 'by estimation'.
places Melsonby
dates 1541

spellings hing hyng
To suspend an object, in this case to attach a gate in a way that allowed it to swing easily.
dates 1317 1482 1542 1571 1585 1608 1670 1726

spellings hinger
A short sword, originally intended to hang from the belt.
dates 1512 1535 1612 1616 1634 1698

Of uncertain meaning but possibly a hanging board or shelf on which cheeses could be kept whilst they matured.
dates 1564 1610

Pieces of drapery with which bedsteads and the walls of a room would be hung.
dates 1542 1596 1647 1755

spellings hing-lock
A padlock.
places Stearsby
dates 1611

hap

A regional word, to cover or wrap up, possibly a reference here to the animal's fleeces.
places Elmswell
dates 1642

A bed cover, a quilt or coverlet.
dates 1541 1570 1576 1617 1623

The positive meanings of 'hard' when used of people are firm, and unyielding, and they contrast with unfeeling, callous and difficult to deal with.
places East Hauxwell
dates 1301

Close to, very near to.
dates 1569 1623 1642 1651

As a by-name this was probably a nickname for a tradesman, one who drove a hard bargain.
places Selby
dates 1344

Wheat and rye, considered to be hardier than barley and oats.
dates 1295-1296 1549 1557 1622 1664 1798

A material made from ‘hards’, that is the coarser parts of flax or hemp, separated during the heckling process.
dates 1452 1459 1485 1523 1567 1579 1674

Evidently cod, ling, and the like, salted and dried (OED) although the examples quoted there were from Scotland and first noted as late as the early 1800s.
dates 1301-1302 1377

Firm, well-drained land.
dates 1642 1699

Occupational term for a dealer in hardware.
dates 1442-1443 1459 1478 1502 1549 1580 1586 1590 1591 1655 1782

A trap or ‘gin’ for catching hares.
dates 1637 1674

From the verb to harken, used as a synonym of to eavesdrop.
places Hartshead
dates 1693

A rare word, recorded in northern dialects with meanings linked to the properties of flax, feathers, straw and the like (EDD).
places Wensley
dates 1575

spellings wharrell
Used of the colour of cattle, in the sense of mottled or speckled.
dates 1575 1592 1748

Free from loss, or liability to pay.
dates 1509 1619 1669

Both verb and noun could be used with reference to armour or military equipment.
dates 1429 1449 1490 1493 1503 1508 1539 1554 1558

For securing the 'horsing' on the grindstone wheel.
places Sheffield
dates 1562 1566

Brains.
places Pickering
dates 1671

The right to collect wood for the maintenance of harrows.
places East Morton
dates 1582

The harrows will have been made of wood but they had iron teeth.
dates 1535 1578 1606 1639

The ‘harrs’ of a door were the hinges, so the harr-tree may have been the wooden part of the door frame to which the harrs were attached.
places York Scarborough
dates 1298 1433

The skin of a hart, a male deer, especially the red deer.
places Boroughbridge
dates 1540

A note on this word by Canon Atkinson says that it was pronounced ‘hazzled’, and described a cow with white and red hairs intermixed.
places Harrogate Thirsk
dates 1548 1750

A regional term for a stook of corn, twelve sheaves in one definition of 1674 (OED).
dates 1555 1592 1710 1782

A piece of armour, originally to protect the neck but which developed into a coat of mail.
places Slingsby
dates 1346

As a noun ‘haulme’ refers to the stalks of various cultivated plants, and in 1573 Tusser described it as ‘the strawe of the wheat or the rye’ (OED).
places Elmswell
dates 1642

Kaner considered this to be a spelling of ‘halfling’, a word for an immature animal which has been noted only in the East Riding.
places South Cave
dates 1578

A regional word for oats, first noted as an element in a by-name, possibly an occupational nickname for a maker of ‘havercake’ or haver bread.
dates 1301 1477 1543 1612 1642 1672 1760

Probably a bag used by falconers.
places York Eshton
dates 1442 1656

Having white spots or streaks, used mostly of cattle.
dates 1528 1530 1546 1577 1581 1613

spellings hay bote haynbote
The right of a tenant to take wood or underwood for fencing.
dates 1251 1399-1400 1442 1495 1555 1619-1621

A hedge or enclosure, used for the hedge around a park and occasionally as an alternative of ‘park’.
dates 1189 1200-1299 1270

Possibly the plural of 'hay' in the sense of snare.
places Rawmarsh
dates 1739

spellings hazel wood
The common hazel is a deciduous tree or shrub which has historically provided us with nuts, and the flexible shoots from which hurdles and baskets might be made.
places Bolton Bridge
dates 1682

The ‘heads’ of a bridge were the two ends of the construction, otherwise called the landstalls or landstays.
dates 1485-1486 1601 1615

A word used in mining for a passage or gallery driven into the coal, called a heading in some regions.
dates 1486 1702 1728 1777

In the open-field system this was a strip of uncultivated land at the end of the furrows, where the plough might conveniently turn.
dates 1438 1465 1557 1629

spellings head mass penny
Money given at a funeral or obit for attending mass.
dates 1519 1521 1533 1541 1543

A regional word for heddle, that is the small cords or wires through which the warp is passed in a loom, separating the threads so as to allow the passage of the shuttle.
dates 1498 1618 1792

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