Although ‘hebble’ had two related meanings it was most frequently used for a narrow, wooden bridge – a definition found in the Almondbury burial register in 1559.
These local spellings of ‘haft’ and ‘hafter’ relate to the practice of putting hafts or handles on knives, and they were usual in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The plant was grown for its valuable fibre, used for ropes and stout fabric. It was formerly in widespread cultivation, apparently in small enclosures near the house.
Originally a feudal obligation, whereby weapons, a horse, etc, restored to a lord on the death of a tenant. In many cases this was commuted later for a fixed money payment.
These were buildings in coastal towns and riverside locations where herring catches were stored, possibly for transport or distribution, by the panniermen.
A word used locally for the material with which charcoal-burners covered the cordwood in a charcoal pit. It had to make the mound airtight so that combustion did not take place.
A term used in coal-mining for a slight fault in the strata, one that changed the level in gates along which the corves were moved. It made it more difficult for the barrow-men or hurries.