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For press papers, that is sheets of paper placed between the folds of cloth in preparation for transportation.
places Bingley Fulstone
dates 1618 1641

spellings parchmentmaker
Makers of parchment.
places York Beverley
dates 1301 1349 1465 1550

A kind of lace, braid or cord, the core of which was parchment.
dates 1558 1621

A partition, screen or railing, which served to enclose or shut off a space in a building.
places York Esholt
dates 1422 1505 1536-1537 1538

To take the top sods off the land.
dates 1694 1749 1755

To cover a wall with plaster; to decorate a plastered surface.
dates 1207 1449-1450 1570

This was a bridge that served only the local community and had to be maintained at the parish’s expense.
places Cottingley
dates 1683

A regional word, apparently an alternative of ‘parish’.
dates 1436 1487 1511 1524 1549 1593

dates 1251-1252 1297-1298 1584 1599

A man in charge of a park.
dates 1244 1258 1310-1311 1390 1516

Parkin is still a popular cake in Yorkshire, traditionally associated with Bonfire night.
places Elland
dates 1729

The regional spelling of ‘parpen’, a stone with two smooth, vertical faces which passes through the thickness of a wall. A parpoint wall was a partition.
dates 1657 1739 1830

An early spelling of paddock.
dates 1568 1641 1696

spellings parcer percer
An obsolete spelling of ‘piercer’, that is a tool or instrument for piercing or boring holes.
places York South Cave
dates 1400 1498 1541-1542 1589

The bit of a ‘parser’ or boring tool.
dates 1567 1576 1692

A spelling of parsnip.
places Abbotside
dates 1628

The Christian festival of Easter.
dates 1495 1518-1519 1539 1548-1549

A crash or heavy fall.
dates 1677 1736

A narrow entry which gives access to or from a house or row of houses.
dates 1735 1762

A board on which pastry was prepared.
dates 1565 1614 1617

A town official with responsibility for the common pastures.
dates 1533 1536 1644 1671 1792

A regional word for the badger.
dates 1743

A ruff or band worn round the neck.
dates 1522 1532 1559 1615

An early spelling of pattern: it occurred several times in founders’ inventories where it clearly referred to a model or mould of the objects they produced.
places York
dates 1492 1512 1516

A maker of pattens, a type of footwear.
places York
dates 1381 1412-1413 1427

A piece of armour that covered the lower part of the body, used in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
places Hull
dates 1453

To kick, a frequent dialect word in Yorkshire.
dates 1650 1673

A small bag, purse or wallet (OED).
places Hull York Beverley
dates 1459 1465 1471

A payment or toll towards the laying of pavements in a town, or their maintenance.
places Ripon
dates 1228

spellings pavement
To pave was to lay stones closely together in order to create a compact, smooth surface, particularly for the public highways in major towns: the word was responsible for an important York street name.
dates 1376 1393 1417 1421 1572 1602 1614 1706 1717

places York
dates 1387 1421

A thing left in the possession of another person as security for a debt.
dates 1578 1615 1688

pax

spellings paxbred
The pax was a tablet of gold, silver or other precious material, which bore an image of the crucifixion or the Saviour, and it was kissed by the celebrating priest at mass before being passed to other clergy and members of the congregation. The paxbred had a similar function but was so called because it was originally a wooden board.
dates 1377 1424 1497 1524 1535-1536

spellings perk
Regional forms of perch, in the sense of placing in an elevated position, with a number of distinctive usages.
dates 1506 1617 1672 1703 1704 1761

Mother of pearl which is the shining iridescent inner layer of some shells.
dates 1726

spellings peasen
The original singular and plural of pea, peas.
dates 1527 1632 1642 1724

A measure of capacity for dry goods, equal to two gallons or a quarter of a bushel. Also the vessel which held that amount.
dates 1357 1581 1602 1644

A regional form of ‘speckled’, noted by Wright in Lancashire and Cheshire but not Yorkshire (EDD).
places Huddersfield
dates 1616

A regional form of pedlar.
places Leeds Halifax
dates 1585 1588

A shovel-like implement used principally by bakers to place loaves into the oven.
dates 1532 1597 1612 1622 1664 1671 1674 1675

Historians now use this word for the fortified houses and towers in the border regions of England and Scotland. Originally, the ‘peel’ was a stake or palisade but then a building within the palisade and by the fourteenth century a small castle (OED).
dates 1483 1537 1551 1577 1760

An alternative to ‘piller’, that is one who removes the bark from trees.
dates 1810

From the word for pilgrim, used of capes or mantles worn by women, and fashionable in the mid-eighteenth century.

A skin or hide, a term found occasionally in connection with furriers (OED).
dates 1354 1395 1667-1670 1685

In a great hurry, rushing, even reckless.
places Frizinghall
dates 1733

A dealer in skins or hides.
places Pontefract York
dates 1251 1372 1400

A hanging on a girdle.
places York
dates 1467

Almost certainly a hanging ornament, an alternative form of pendant (OED), although there is scope for confusion with ‘penner’.
dates 1527 1531 1558 1588

A kind of coarse cloth which presumably took its name from the town of Penistone in south Yorkshire.
dates 1617 1653 1693

This was originally a small knife intended for making and repairing quill pens and it was kept in a sheath.
dates 1590 1733 1766 1812

A late specialisation.
places Sheffield
dates 1818

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