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Supervision, work carried out by overseers.
dates 1517 1552 1562

Knee breeches (OED).
places Farnham
dates 1565


A word found in the accounts of a colliery in Tong.
places Tong
dates 1760

A common local spelling of alder.
dates 1572 1592 1690

own

To claim or recognise as one’s own.
dates 1607 1679 1681 1698 1718

The wooden bow which forms a collar for a yoked ox.
dates 1433 1580 1614 1617 1622

A measure or quantity of land.
dates 1506 1628 1673

The OED has examples of this word as a Scottish equivalent of oxgang but that is not the meaning in Yorkshire where the ‘gate’ was a right for the ox to ‘go’ onto certain grazing lands. It was a right to pasturage.
dates 1539

The skins or hides of oxen, important to both butchers and tanners.
dates 1579 1730

The Christian festival of Easter.
places Richmond York
dates 1440 1561

In the single reference noted it was probably a step.
places York
dates 1590

A coarse material used to wrap up the packs carried by pack animals, particularly wool.
dates 1394-1395 1539 1642 1742

A horse used for carrying packs of goods.
places Leeds Sheffield
dates 1517 1522

dates 1598 1606 1688

A place where packs were prepared for transportation by pack horses.
places Skipton
dates 1672

Part of the retail premises of John Taylor, a Gomersal merchant.
places Gomersal
dates 1779

A man who makes a living by selling goods from a pack which he carries from place to place, a pedlar.
dates 1160 1625

A skewer, probably made of wood, first mentioned in 1430 (see packsaddle). It secured the pack cloth in which goods were wrapped.
places West Riding
dates 1718

A saddle adapted for supporting a pack to be carried by a pack-animal.
dates 1398 1430 1549 1680 1713

A sheet of cloth used for packing goods in that were to be transported.
dates 1703 1731

Stout thread, employed especially to secure packsheets, but with a variety of additional uses.
dates 1371 1399-1400 1534-1535 1617

To cease trading, to place goods in a pack and be ready for departure.
places Beverley
dates 1596

spellings packingware
A type of coarse cloth made in York, as defined in the references given here.
places York
dates 1474-1475 1484

A wheeled stage or platform used in the open air performances of the mystery plays.
places York
dates 1394 1467 1500

A threatened penalty or fine, to be paid for an offence.
dates 1488 1549 1584 1688

Of a person it was ‘painstaking’, a complimentary reference to the care and attention bestowed on a task.
places Hull Elmswell
dates 1613 1642


An artist who painted images on cloth, wood, etc.
places Ripon York
dates 1399-1400 1421-1422 1439 1522

Often used of single things where the perception is that two or more parts are involved.
dates 1548 1573 1588 1655

spellings pariter paritor
Abbreviated spellings of apparitor, an officer of an ecclesiastical or civil court.
dates 1570 1671 1674 1743

spellings pale-board
‘Pale’ would have been used initially for the vertical pieces of wood in the fence of a medieval deer park, but it then came to mean the fence itself.
dates 1315 1489 1505 1524 1528 1597 1624

The right to wood for pales.
places Cawthorne
dates 1626

Marked with stripes, probably vertical like ‘pales’.
dates 1306 1414 1423

A workman employed to set up a pale.
places Stockeld
dates 1581

spellings palisership
dates 1490 1553 1607

A person in charge of the palfreys or saddle horses.
dates 1301 1381 1404-1405

A fence made of pales; an alternative to ‘pale’.
dates 1200-1250 1356 1468 1479 1669

The man responsible for the ‘pale’ or 'palis' of the medieval park, usually said to be either the woodman who made the palings or the officer who managed the park.
dates 1315 1379 1488-1489 1516 1622

dates 1310 1316 1381 1538 1761

pan

It has more than one meaning and in some late examples was a 'panel', a square, timber framework filled in with bricks or plaster (OED). More usually it was the horizontal timber along the top of a wall which received the ends of the rafters, although the evidence is not always explicit.
dates 1284 1341 1420 1501 1519 1576 1617 1619-1621 1682 1739

spellings paunch
As a verb it means to cut open the paunch or belly of an animal and take out the entrails, together with the heart, liver, lungs, etc (OED).
dates 1312-1313 1670 1675

As a noun a ‘pane’ was a distinct portion of a garment or piece of cloth, set alongside other panes or strips, possibly of different colours. To ‘pane’ was to make up such an item.
dates 1537 1565

A section or compartment of woodland set out to be felled.
places Sheffield
dates 1574

Used adjectivally of a chest made of thin boards, similar in meaning therefore to wainscot chest.
places Hampsthwaite
dates 1640-1641

The protective pad under the load saddle of a pack horse.
dates 1377-1378 1394-1395 1587 1614 1642 1692

A word of French origin which had several related shades of meaning. It could refer to swine fodder such as acorns or beech mast, in which sense Chaucer used it in c.1374 (OED) or it could be the right to pasture swine in the forest. Finally it was often the payment made for that privilege.
dates 1245-1246 1250-1251

A maker of panniers.
places York Selby Egton
dates 1358 1472 1614

In theory this word might refer to any hawker or tradesman who carried his wares in panniers, but in Yorkshire it was used principally of fishmongers who operated from the eastern half of the county.
dates 1301 1467 1468 1476 1486-1487 1503 1512 1522 1534 1553 1558 1583

places Spurn

spellings pantocle
Spellings of ‘pantofle’, that is a slipper or any kind of loose, indoor shoe: it could also be used of overshoes that were worn outdoors (OED).
places Gilling Beverley
dates 1573 1585-1587 1596 1627

Originally the place where bread was stored but then a more general provision room.
places York Cottingham
dates 1266 1381 1528

spellings papyngay popinjay
Typical spellings of popinjay, an old word for a parrot.
dates 1380 1390 1414 1444

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