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A northern term for pack-saddle.
dates 1435 1563 1585 1636 1640 1658

The usual word in much of south Yorkshire for lane.
dates 1361 1537

The north Yorkshire word for lane.
dates 1313 1473 1556 1610 1660

lob

The pollack, a sea-fish allied to the cod.
places Selby
dates 1416-1417

An enclosure or fold.
dates 1562

spellings locket-nail
The locket was the iron cross-bar of a window to which the glass was attached by small nails.
places Ripon Thornhill
dates 1355 1379 1379-1380 1396-1397

Someone who makes, repairs and fits locks; a widely distributed craft represented in all major towns in medieval Yorkshire and in some of the villages.
dates 1379 1421 1454 1513 1583

A drain or water channel.
places Methley York
dates 1410 1524

When lodge came into English from French it meant a hut, arbour or small house, a temporary building. It then came to be used of a keeper’s house in a deer park and this meaning survived into the seventeenth century at least.
dates 1190-1199 1366-1367 1371 1399 1409 1483 1489 1495 1537 1540 1541-1542 1597 1619-1621

The keeper of a lodge on the Fountains Abbey estate.
places Bouthwaite
dates 1512

A thick-headed or stupid person; a blockhead, used in insults.
dates 1686

A dialect word for a bundle of straw, hay or the like.
places Wetherby
dates 1727

It has two quite distinct meanings. In springwood contexts it was possibly ‘wood suitable for logs or sawn into logs’.
dates 1600 1668 1704 1758

In parts of west Yorkshire this was a spelling of ‘loan’, the local word for lane.
dates 1437 1463 1482 1522 1648

Thought to be an alloy of copper.
places Sheffield
dates 1690

spellings lang
A regular abbreviation of ‘belong’, on record from the fifteenth century.
dates 1443 1486 1519 1540-1542

spellings hundred
From the thirteenth century at least, grain, livestock, timber, etc could be calculated at the long or great hundred which amounted to six score.
dates 1236 1483 1562 1574 1600

To lose no time, to bestir oneself, a colloquial usage.

To take care of; to look after, especially of sick people and animals.
dates 1598 1638 1675

This was the weaver’s apparatus for weaving cloth, commonly referred to in the past as a pair of looms.
dates 1588 1620 1642

The upper storey of a clothier’s cottage.
places Kirkburton
dates 1579

The building in which a clothier had his loom or looms, a work-place.
places Leeds Batley
dates 1576 1724

An unglazed opening in a wall, originally in a defensive wall, designed to allow missiles to be directed at an attacker. From the seventeenth century it was a similar opening in a barn, through which hay or straw could be forked.
dates 1674 1686 1722 1756

spellings water loose
To ‘loose’ a coal-pit was to carry out all the work that was necessary for coal to be ‘won’ there, with proper access and freedom from water.
dates 1633 1733 1754 1766

An apprentice was said to be 'loose' once he had completed his term.
dates 1539 1552 1690 1778

lop

In woodmanship ‘lops’ were the branches cut from a growing tree.
dates 1544-1545 1568 1683 1688

A name which marked a stage in the growth of a timber tree, perhaps meaning ‘less than a lord’, or used more literally for the greatest trees in a wood.
dates 1672 1687 1727 1768

A maker of small ironware, such as chains, bits, spurs and the like.
places York Ripon
dates 1273 1421 1453-1455 1577

Possibly to be unprofitable.
places Ovenden
dates 1782

spellings lowke
To pull up weeds.
dates 1446-1458 1580 1624 1642 1786

A hook-shaped implement for weeding.
dates 1581 1597 1634

spellings draught louvre
A wooden, turret-like erection on the roof of a major building, with lateral openings for ventilation and the passage of smoke.
places York Esholt
dates 1358 1368 1404 1428 1504-1505 1522-1523 1538

Here, the meaning was engraved or embossed in a lozenge pattern.
places Beverley
dates 1450

With lugs, that is ‘ears’ or handles.
places Ripon
dates 1711 1745

A word used for roughly prepared timber, or for articles of furniture and the like which take up room inconveniently (OED).
places Whitby Selby
dates 1660 1681

Probably large pieces of stone which were not hewn by the masons but were suitable for rough walling.
places York
dates 1412

A dormer-window, possibly a corruption of ‘lucarne’ (OED).
places Pickering
dates 1698

spellings liard
Gray, silvery-gray or white, used particularly of horses.
dates 1257 1345 1429 1452 1476 1495 1503 1508

The watch kept at night over a dead body.
places Richmond
dates 1558

A herbaceous plant cultivated for medicinal purposes and the dye obtained from its root.
dates 1453 1487 1510 1576

Of timber, unwrought but in ready to use planks.
places Selby
dates 1680

Mature or fully-grown: used of animals.
dates 1619 1644 1674 1730 1786

spellings maiden tub
A washerwoman's dolly.

The name of some ferns, and used also of a variety of plants.
places Selby
dates 1359

spellings mail saddle
A saddle on which a 'mail' or pack might be placed.
dates 1400 1403 1567 1658

spellings mainland
Demesne land; the land attached to a mansion (OED).
dates 1420 1538 1588 1601 1606

spellings pain-demaine
The finest white bread, a York delicacy.
dates 1400 1411-1412 1452 1494 1528 1533 1545

spellings measondue
Literally ‘god’s house’, a hospital or refuge for the old and infirm. Such institutions were in all major towns and cities from the fourteenth century.
dates 1365 1374 1398 1432 1434 1480 1553 1590

Make glad, friendly, happy.
dates 1176 1301 1324 1379

The nickname of a horse, probably mischievous.
dates 1639

spellings melocoton
A peach grafted on a quince.
places Brandsby
dates 1620

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