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A spelling of ‘plaid’, a twilled woollen cloth.
dates 1617 1764

An open space, usually within a wood or forest.
dates 1148 1534-1535 1549 1571 1636 1642 1752

A wooden plank or board, suitable for dam repairs, internal floors, etc.
dates 1309-1310 1322 1408 1416 1535 1588

The verb meant to make level or smooth and it occurs in the inventories of goldsmiths, in contexts which suggest that metal was flattened on a small anvil by blows from a special hammer.
places York Sheffield
dates 1374 1458 1490 1766

Planks were frequently used to bridge narrow water courses.
dates 1610 1623 1624 1679

In early uses of this word the references are to placing plants in the ground or to establishing settlements of people overseas, as in Ireland and New England. As a word for a new wood of planted trees it is recorded from 1669 (OED).
dates 1781-1782 1810

To lay a hedge, cutting into the stems so that they can be bent over and the branches interwoven or ‘plaited.
dates 1560 1642 1651 1725

The skilled workman who applied plaster to walls, especially the outside walls of buildings. The plaster was evidently white.
places York Ripon Hull
dates 1333 1396-1397 1453-1455 1466-1468

A patch of flat land, usually quite small, a word akin to ‘plot’.
dates 1300 1435 1562 1657

A piece of iron, fastened to corves and other moveable wooden items as a form of protection in the shafts and galleries.
places Beeston
sources Denison papers
dates 1754

Precious metal, especially silver, from Spanish plata.
places York
dates 1528

spellings coat of plate
A corselet of leather on which small plates of metal were sewn.
dates 1563 1567 1568

A rare word, for which the OED offers two possible meanings, either a lock in which the works are pivoted on an iron plate or one for an outside door, encased in wood.
places Beverley
dates 1446-1447

Strong hand shears for cutting sheets or plates of metal.
places Sheffield
dates 1689

A maker of plate-metal.
places Cawthorne
dates 1379

For a dialect speaker ‘to play’ is not to work, so this was a day free of work.
places Attercliffe
dates 1754

A board on which a game such as chess might be played.
places Healaugh
dates 1568

Condition.
places York Elmswell
dates 1393 1642

Possibly a layer.
places York Beverley
dates 1377 1398 1433

Evidently an implement used by men fishing in rivers but the exact meaning is uncertain.
places Brandsby
dates 1617

Although ‘plough’ itself needs no explanation it could have unusual spellings.
dates 1535 1551 1552 1580 1667

spellings ploughbote
The liberty to have wood for making a plough or its wooden parts.
dates 1457 1524 1579

spellings plough-tilth
The OED has a reference to this term in 1494 in which it was used as a measure of tilled land, equivalent in the example quoted to 160 acres.
places Harewood Lund
dates 1555 1598 1734

A carpenter who specialised in making ploughs.
dates 1269 1285 1381 1540

A net for trapping plovers, to be eaten.
dates 1550

Originally a man who worked and dealt with lead, especially on the roofs of great buildings.
dates 1354-1355 1421 1476 1538

Used originally of a compact body of persons or things, and of a clump of trees from 1470-85 (OED).
dates 1525 1847

A woollen fabric of varying texture, blue or grey in colour (OED).
places York Durham
dates 1394 1407

A small bag or pouch.
dates 1316 1471-1472 1692 1735

A folding knife to fit in the pocket. Originally the blades opened at one end only.
places Sheffield
dates 1721

A net with a narrow neck for catching eels.
places Brandsby
dates 1619

A regional word for a miry pit or hole.
dates 1681 1748 1799

To fill the spaces in lines of masonry or brickwork with mortar or cement, applying the point of the trowel.
places Ripon Cottingley
dates 1391-1392 1682

spellings point-maker
Points were the tagged laces or cords which served to fasten garments where buttons are now used.
places York Skelton
dates 1453 1504 1597

A bag or small sack.
dates 1490 1505 1612 1662 1725 1731

places Brandsby
dates 1615

A variety of oats which became popular with Pennine farmers two centuries ago because of its high yield.
dates 1809 1829

A pole set up in marshland or on the moors as a way-marker.
places Crowle
dates 1607

Used of the saplings which sprang from the stool or stoven of a tree in the coppice cycle. They could be felled at the end of the cycle or allowed to grow into more substantial trees.
dates 1528 1530 1675 1719 1737 1739 1755 1756

A net attached to a pole, used to catch fish.
places Selby
dates 1372

Apparently a pole or tree reserved for timber, not one to be cut off near the ground.
places Liversedge
dates 1543-1544

To ascertain the weight of, to weigh.
places York
dates 1509

There are references to pontage from the twelfth century (OED): it was a toll levied on goods that crossed certain bridges and it was supposed to contribute to their maintenance.
dates 1155 1228 1282

The young of game birds, especially grouse, a dialect form of ‘poult’.
dates 1609 1637 1653

Descriptive of squirrel skins taken in the early summer (EMV228).
dates 1388 1404 1415 1456

places Scarborough
dates 1423

As a verb, to thrust or poke, as with a stick or sword.
dates 1451 1559 1575 1612

A portable breviary, that is the book which in the Roman Catholic church contained the ‘Divine Office’ for each day, and had to be ready to hand for those in orders.
dates 1439 1454 1459 1497 1520 1541 1557

dates 1242 1317 1322-1326 1433-1434 1476 1495

The Latin word for a portable breviary, found occasionally in English texts.
places Kirby Hill
dates 1351

A case or bag which would hold clothing and other necessaries; used by those riding on horseback.
dates 1610 1632 1700 1721

A small metal pot in which liquids could be boiled over a fire.
dates 1304-1305 1348 1362 1451 1567 1729

To thrust or push violently, especially with the feet.
places Wakefield
dates 1758

A drink of thickened milk or cream enriched with spices, alchoholic liquors, eggs and sugar (GWK/95).
dates 1642 1662

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