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An area of woodland preserved for hunting deer, possibly within a forest. It developed from ‘frith’ by metathesis and seems to be predominantly a west Yorkshire spelling.
dates 1275 1285 1307 1315 1629 1642

Wood dug out of peat moors and burnt for fuel or used as torches.

A person 'driving' fish, that is one engaged in transporting fish from where it was caught to island markets.
places Malton
dates 1556

A garth or enclosure on a river or the sea-shore designed to catch fish, especially salmon.
dates 1392-1393 1454 1477 1520 1555 1694

A storehouse for fish, possibly where business with the panniermen took place.
dates 1292 1292-1294 1353 1539 1544-1545

A table or stall for the sale of fish.
dates 1429-1430 1663

A rare occupational by-name.

fit

The verb was used meaning to punish in a suitable or fitting way.
places Stainland
dates 1729

The skin or fur of a polecat.
dates 1430 1530

For vetch, bean-like plants.
dates 1641 1671

This larger type of fishing vessel survived into the mid-nineteenth century in ports such as Filey and Staithes (PFY).
dates 1505 1522 1540 1541

A container or flask for liquids. These could be made of different materials and they varied in size, from a drinking vessel to a tub.
dates 1591 1610 1634 1655

spellings flagstone
A slab of stone suitable for paving, or used in the plural for the paving itself.
dates 1404-1405 1412 1648 1653 1706 1799

One of several alternative spellings of the word for turf, pared and cut for fuel.
dates 1377-1378 1395 1609 1635 1791 1970-1980

The special spade used for cutting flaghts.
dates 1639 1719

An obsolete past participle of flay.
places West Riding
dates 1672

A variant of ‘flick’, that is flitch.
places Fixby
dates 1567

spellings flanders chest
Chests imported from Flanders.
dates 1376 1400 1430 1434 1561 1614 1641 1701

The name of a public house, on the old highway between Brighouse and Keighley, formerly a moorland crossing. The meaning of the name has been much discussed and it remains uncertain.
places Hanlith
dates 1607

spellings flask flosh flush
A pool or marshy spot.
dates 1220-1228 1407 1472-1473 1677

A shallow tub, usually of wood.
dates 1567 1588 1610

This may sometimes be just a level piece of ground.
dates 1220-1228 1422 1550 1556 1624 1706 1755

A shallow vessel, often of silver gilt and usually described as ‘covered’.
dates 1490 1536

spellings flawt
A frequent alternative to ‘flaght’, said in the OED to be chiefly Scottish, but a common word in north Yorkshire for an oblong piece of heath pared from the surface and dried for fuel.
dates 1534 1590

A small building where flaughts were stored.
dates 1711

This is one of several Yorkshire spellings for the name once given to thin layers of heath cut for fuel.
dates 1474 1611 1638

The right or liberty to pare and dig flaws.
dates 1303 1658 1668

The OED has examples of ‘flawn’ from c.1300 and defines it as a kind of custard or cheese-cake.
dates 1200-1299 1319 1698

spellings flee fleer
It is used most commonly to describe the action of skinning an animal.
dates 1608 1635 1659 1674 1740

A knife used for skinning a carcase.
places Brough
dates 1574

The spade used in paring the top sods.
dates 1573

Descriptive of the colouring of a horse, with bay or sorrel spots or streaks on a lighter ground (OED).
places Adwalton
dates 1631


Wattled hurdles or wooden frames with bars, probably used in bridge construction.
dates 1200-1299 1250 1325-1326 1365 1589 1606

Pied, or perhaps spotted, used of animals, particularly cattle.
dates 1402 1539 1616 1660

Channels or courses of water, a frequent suffix in Yorkshire place-names.
dates 1189-1199 1274-1275 1347 1352 1579 1637 1840

A kitchen implement, an axe for cutting up meat.
places York
dates 1423

A hook on which to hang meat.
places York
dates 1410

A wooden tub in which meat could be stored or transported.
sources Probate
dates 1557

A raft of timber floated on the river to its destination, perhaps a spelling of ‘float’ (OED).
places York
dates 1419

An alternative spelling of flue, a type of fishing-net.
places Scarborough
dates 1391

The northern equivalent of flitch, the side of an animal, salted and cured.
dates 1318-1319 1462 1472 1541 1588

A net used to trap birds.
dates 1538 1577 1617 1655

The distance travelled by a flight-arrow, designed for long-range shooting.
dates 1500 1556 1620

To remove something, usually from one place to another.
dates 1557 1586 1675 1710 1783

To scold, argue, or use insulting language.
places York Skipton
dates 1495 1543 1686

spellings float gap float gate
Trenches taking water into fields.
dates 1310 1379 1415 1465 1482 1610 1789

A tool used by bowyers, represented in the arms of the Bowyers’ Company where it is pictured as a flat plate with teeth on the under side and a handle at the top (OED).
places York
dates 1406 1434

A tuft or waste piece of wool, or a material made of such wool.
dates 1377-1378 1466-1468 1533 1560

A fence across a stream, probably associated with the flooding of riverside meadows.
dates 1400-1499 1603

spellings flood-heck
A gate which could open or close a channel through which water flowed, a sluice.
dates 1364 1474 1476 1788

Usually a gift of ale or money made to masons who were building a house, at the stage when the floor was ready.

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