chalder

An early spelling of carbuncle which derives from the Latin for a small piece of coal and was used in the Middle Ages of a fiery red precious stone, a ruby.

places Drax Hemingbrough

sources YAS Record Series vol. 1 Place-names of West Riding ... Burton, History of Hemingbr...

dates 1272 1537 1552

charcoal-burner

Charcoal was a major woodland product from a very early date.

places Ripon Brandsby

sources Ripon Treasurer account rolls Richard Cholmeley's book 16...

dates 1470-1471 1615

charcoal-pits

A place for firing wood, to make charcoal.

places Tong

sources Articles of agreement for u...

dates 1690

charet

spellings chariot

A wheeled vehicle, probably for carrying goods.

places Richmond York Boroughbridge

sources Thomas de Dalby's will, 1400 Thomas de Dalby's inventory... Henry Bowet's inventory, 1423 York Memoranda Book

dates 1379-1380 1400 1423

chareter

Possibly a regional form of ‘carter’.

places Watton, Driffield

sources Gilbert de Aton's will, 1350

dates 1350

charger

A large plate or flat dish for serving meat, a platter.

places York Castleford Monk Fryston Fewston

sources Thomas de la Mare's will, 1358 Henry Bowet's inventory, 1423 Thomas Crosse's will, 1548 Edward Dice's will, 1561 William Thorp's will, 1577

dates 1353 1423 1548 1562 1578

chartt

Possibly an unusual spelling of shirt.

places Leeds

sources Elizabeth Smythe's will, 1541

dates 1541

charwood

Presumably wood intended for charcoal.

chase(1)

Used in references to the clothiers’ tenter frames, with emphasis on the measurement.

places Wakefield West Riding Soyland

sources YAHS Record Series vol. 3 Quarter sessions order book... John Brearley's Memorandum ... Wakefield session roll Janu...

dates 1599 1648 1726 1758-1762

chase(2)

To emboss or engrave metal in relief.

places Egton Arncliffe Helmsley

sources Robert Playse's will, 1430/1 John Wyndhill's will, 1433/4 William Overton's will, 1482/3

dates 1429 1431 1481

chasuble

An ecclesiastical vestment, a kind of sleeveless mantle which covered the body and shoulders, worn over the alb and stole.

places York Barmston Helmsley

sources Richard Russell's will, 1435 John Teryngton's will, 1456 William Overton's will, 1482/3

dates 1435 1456 1481

chatt

Originally the catkin of trees such as the willow and hazel, linked with ‘kitten’ via its downy appearance (OED).

places Oswaldkirk Wragby Hunsworth

sources Memorandum book of Sir Henr... Accounts of William Ramsden... Parish Registers

dates 1544-1545 1592 1667

cheap

To barter or trade.

places Knaresborough Halifax

sources Quarter sessions roll 1669 Pontefract session roll May...

dates 1669 1753

checkerside

Apparently a nickname for the groat of 1279 which had the reverse side quartered.

places Staveley

sources John Colynson's will 1563

dates 1543

cheese fat

An early spelling of cheese-vat, the vessel in which the curds were pressed and moulded, described by Peter Brears as a cylindrical cooper-made implement.

places Stillingfleet South Cave North Stainley Brandsby Selby

sources YAS Record Series Thomas Tevelle's will, 1559 Nynian Staveley's inventory... Richard Cholmeley's book 16... Anne Abbott's inventory, 1676

dates 1535 1554 1559 1612 1676

cheese heck

A rack for cheese.

places Barlby

sources Grace Halliday's inventory,...

dates 1676

cheese press

An apparatus for pressing the curds in cheese-making.

places Ripon South Cave Brandsby Barlby

sources Margaret Pigott's inventory... Thomas Tevelle's will, 1559 Richard Cholmeley's book 16... John Grubb's inventory, 1638

dates 1485 1559 1612 1638

cheminage

spellings chiminage

A tax on movement through a forest.

places Pickering Galtres

sources North Riding Records

dates 1314 1619-1621

chemour

spellings chimer

A spelling of 'chimer', that is a loose upper robe worn by a bishop.

places York

sources Henry Bowet's inventory, 1423

dates 1423

cherkey

This reference to yarn, possibly obtained locally, suggests that ‘turkey’ may have been the word intended.

places Stockeld

sources William Myddilton's invento...

dates 1578

cherry

Cherry-coloured, red, a popular name for a cow over several centuries, certainly into the 1800s.

places Methley Great Preston Hudswell Barwick in Elmet Conistone

sources Thoresby Society Publications Alice Webster's will, 1546 Agnes Brunskell's will and ... Parish Registers Richard Wigglesworth's Acco...

dates 1522 1547 1588 1614 1715

cherry tree

A tree bearing cherries as fruit.

places Lotherton

sources YAHS Record Series vol. 3

dates 1453-1454

chestnut

A large trea which produces chestnuts, or the colour of the nuts.

places Whitley Adwalton Stokesley

sources Rental with accounts, 1732-... Bradford Antiquary vol. 7 Quarter Sessions Records

dates 1631 1689 1733

childer

The usual dialect equivalent of children.

places York Clint Barwick in Elmet Westerdale

sources Jon of Croxton's will, 1393 York House Book 7 Mawde Beckwith's will, 1544 Parish Registers Isabell Wylson's will, [1547]

dates 1393 1490 1544 1547 1588

child going-frame

A word found in an area to the south-west of Huddersfield, evidently for a device that helped toddlers to walk.

places Holmfirth

sources South Yorkshire collection

dates 1709

chimley

A spelling of chimney which captures a common colloquial pronunciation.

places Batley Selby Acomb

sources Sheard, Batley parish records Michael Marshall's inventor... YAS Record Series vol. 1

dates 1546 1657 1685

chimneth

In the 1400s and 1500s this was a relatively common spelling of chimney in the West Riding although I have found no reference to its use in major dictionaries.