In the cutlery trade in Sheffield the horsing was a wooden framework attached to the grindstone, and it was provided with a ‘saddle’ on which the grinder sat while at work.
When Chaucer and other fourteenth-century writers used this word they were clearly referring to a panier, used for transporting items such as sand, mortar and stone.
According to Wright the east Yorkshire farmer called his better room the ‘house’ (EDD), whereas in parts of the West Riding, in terrace houses as well as those which were detached, the ‘house’ was the main room, the one in regular occupation.
In Yorkshire inventories ‘hall’ continued to be the word for the main room in important houses well into the late 1600s, but during that same century a number of alternatives were also employed, including the ‘hall house’ and the ‘housestead’, words which are dealt with separately.
The Old Norse haugr, that is a natural hill or an artificial mound, gave rise to numerous minor place-names and it survived in the post-Conquest period as a word for a cairn. These were often boundary markers, probably heaps of stones or cairns.
A spelling of huckaback which was a stout linen fabric used for towelling, napkins and the like. The weft threads were thrown alternatively up to form a rough surface.