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A maker of shears for the cloth trade.
places Wakefield
dates 1665

A cloth-finisher.
places York Northowram
dates 1400 1534

Occupational term for the makers of shears.
dates 1391 1481 1552 1571 1592 1620 1653-1660 1655

spellings sheathmaker
A maker of sheaths for knives, usually of leather.
places York Sheffield
dates 1302 1445 1523 1554 1591 1610 1654 1693

A sharp, dagger-like knife kept in a sheath.
places Sheffield
dates 1714

Probably pieces of leather cut out for stitching.
places Sheffield
dates 1698

Used of fleece-coloured clothing.
dates 1558 1573 1578

spellings Shyre Thursday
The Thursday before Easter.
places York
dates 1505 1520 1550

A horizontal piece of wood, or other material, attached to a wall or set in a frame, designed to hold books, crockery, food etc, a cupboard or cabinet.
dates 1594 1621

spellings shilved wain
A wain with side shelving attached.
dates 1648 1655

spellings shilving
A board attached to a cart or wain so as to increase its load capacity, usually in the plural.
dates 1642 1686

A piece of wood split off from timber.
dates 1469-1470 1519 1551 1638

A body garment of linen, cotton or the like, worn by men, women or children. The word came into regular use in the seventeenth century, replacing smock.
places Hellifield Tong
dates 1692 1710

An alternative spelling of ‘shell’, that is to remove the husks from grain, usually with reference to oats.
places Ayton Beeston
dates 1631 1754

spellings shelling
This was the usual word in many parts of Yorkshire for oats from which the husks had been removed, ready for grinding, often at the local mill.
dates 1510 1545 1647 1685 1760 1783

Light boards used for roofing houses.
dates 1376 1379 1541-1542

A carpenter employed in the construction or fitting out of ships, an occupational term first noted in an Act of 1495 (OED).
places Hull
dates 1570 1601

As much as a ship will hold.
places Tadcaster
dates 1403

A sailor, although most of the evidence relates to men who operated boats on the Ouse, the Trent and their tributaries. Several villages and towns in that region were ports.
dates 1280 1301 1320 1379 1398 1421

spellings shippon
A cattle shed or cow house, a word of Old English origin.
dates 1705 1707 1717

Probably timber that was suitable for building ships.
places Whitby
dates 1541

A carpenter with the special skills required for building ships.
dates 1280 1308 1377 1417 1446 1527 1539 1586

A slice.
dates 1669 1690 1700-1750

Slaty debris, shale or flakes. Shivers of hard stone had a market value.
places York Askrigg
dates 1432 1708 1746

spellings shote shott
A young, weaned pig.
dates 1563 1566 1585 1618

Probably for ‘iron-shod’, used of a wooden implement furnished with a shoe or sheath of iron.
dates 1485 1515 1557 1576 1577 1632

The wooden piles used in dams, river defences and bridge foundations were often provided with an iron shoe at the pointed end.
places Ilkley Leeds
dates 1322 1675

A common field-name, probably derived from 'shovel broad' so referring originally to a narrow strip of land.
places Pudsey Spofforth
dates 1200-1299 1312 1346

Presumably a shoemaker's working bench.
places Hull
dates 1483 1490

The old plural of ‘shoe’, still used by dialect speakers, with ‘shooin’ as the form in much of the West Riding.
dates 1460 1509 1519 1543 1570

A glove worn to protect the hand when drawing a bow.
dates 1525 1537 1542 1558

A building where goods were made and prepared for sale, also used frequently of work-places.
dates 1374 1399 1584 1619-1621 1637 1730

A regional spelling of ‘sewer’.
places Elland Wakefield
dates 1664 1766

Land by a river (OED), or a precipitous slope (PNWR7/242). Research by David Shore suggests that it was more accurately ‘an arc of rising land above a river or stream’.
places Huddersfield

Of uncertain meaning, possibly 'shared' or 'brought ashore'.
places Sessay
dates 1797

Of uncertain meaning, but evidently a short section of a felled tree.
places Almondbury
dates 1629

The reckoning or bill, especially one in an ale-house, an obligation discharged.
dates 1640 1647 1676

Thrust out or projecting.
places York
dates 1501

Of uncertain meaning but descriptive of a process in tanning.
dates 1660 1720

A reference to fish that have spawned.
places York Hull
dates 1510 1517

spellings shoule
These are the usual dialect forms of ‘shovel’.
dates 1395 1557 1655 1704 1789

A flat-bottomed boat.
places York
dates 1457

An alternative of shovel-board.
places West Riding
dates 1648

An alternative of shove- or shovel-board.
places Marston
dates 1594

spellings sholve shoul shoule shulve
Many shovels were wooden implements, ‘shod’ with iron.
dates 1395 1557 1570 1614 1616 1655 1666 1707 1789

A game in which a coin is driven by a blow with the palm of the hand along a board marked with transverse lines.
dates 1575 1607 1608 1619

For shoeing, as when shoeing animals.
places Ripley Ilkley
dates 1543 1675

spellings scrogg
A regional word for scrubby woodland, first recorded in the Towneley Mysteries.
dates 1292 1479 1662 1697-1698 1763 1871

An alternative form of scrub oak.
dates 1543-1544 1574

Old or broken metal that might be converted into weapons.
places Sheffield
dates 1709

A variety of meanings, including a division of land; a synonym for 'furlong'; or an enclosure of a town field.
dates 1601 1604 1680 1687

In contexts which relate to water mills, reservoirs or drainage systems, a ‘shuttle’ was a flood-gate; that is a hatch or ‘door’ which controlled the flow of water and needed to be raised to allow it to flow freely.
dates 1549 1612-1616 1659 1720

A maker of shuttles used by weavers.
places Hull
dates 1377

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