A spelling of huckaback which was a stout linen fabric used for towelling, napkins and the like. The weft threads were thrown alternatively up to form a rough surface.
Used as a verb in farming contexts. It meant to gather grain, hay or other crops from the fields at harvest time and bring them into the barns or farmyard.
Used of legal documents with angular incisions along the top edge. For reasons of security, a document which involved two parties originally had both copies written on one piece of parchment which was then cut zigzag across the middle so that the two distinct halves matched exactly: these were called indentures.
Gresley explains this as ‘the entrance to a mine at the bottom or part way down a shaft where the cages are loaded’ and that is likely to have been the case in the nineteenth century. However, earlier references in the Leeds district suggest that ‘inset’ there referred to places cut into a bank or ‘benk’ for coal.