A word noted only in Yorkshire sources. It was a cloth, defined by Meriton as ‘between Linnen and Hempen, not altogether so coarse as the one nor fine as the other’.
A young tree: in a survey of Bilsdale in north Yorkshire the word was used frequently for ashes and oaks which were almost always valued at 1s, the same as a sapling.
In the single example noted the reference was to a type of fabric, possibly one such as ‘sarks’ were made of, or a misreading of ‘sacken’, for sack cloth.
In early contexts, the scaffold was probably a temporary platform, supported on poles or trestles, which gave workmen access to the higher sections of the building that they were working on.
A word used by both masons and carpenters to describe work done on newly-cut stone or timber so as to reduce the faces of the material to a plane surface.
The two contexts in which this word has been noted suggest that it may have referred to scaffold poles, and that the ‘bridges’ were the platform for the workmen.
The making of scissors and shears were ancient crafts in Yorkshire, especially in Sheffield. The scissorsmiths saw themselves as distinct from shearsmiths and claimed the right to manufacture any item which operated on the pin principle, even some that were named ‘shears’.
A word applied to various implements used for ladling liquids, or shovelling sand, grit and the like. Often the context does not make the exact meaning clear.