The plant was grown for its valuable fibre, used for ropes and stout fabric. It was formerly in widespread cultivation, apparently in small enclosures near the house.
Originally a feudal obligation, whereby weapons, a horse, etc, restored to a lord on the death of a tenant. In many cases this was commuted later for a fixed money payment.
These were buildings in coastal towns and riverside locations where herring catches were stored, possibly for transport or distribution, by the panniermen.
A word used locally for the material with which charcoal-burners covered the cordwood in a charcoal pit. It had to make the mound airtight so that combustion did not take place.
A term used in coal-mining for a slight fault in the strata, one that changed the level in gates along which the corves were moved. It made it more difficult for the barrow-men or hurries.
As a verb this word was used in coal-mining when holes were cut through from one board to another or through pillars of coal in order to help air circulate.
The tenants of a manor who owed allegiance as a group to the lord and attended the manor court. The jurors at the court were sometimes called the homagers.
A verb. The only example noted is in a context where ‘hooking’ seems likely to refer to the use of a hooked device, possibly to raise the sluices, or scour the cloughs.