A term for one of the processes by which wool is converted into yarn, originally using hand cards but later a machine which had rollers covered with card wires.
In an undated survey of Pickering Forest, earlier than 1568, a clear distinction was drawn between an oak classed as ‘a timber tree’, with a usual value of xijd, and ‘a scrubb’ worth ijd.
This early word for ‘coal’ has been explained in a variety of ways but one important theory is that it first described coal which had been cast ashore from seams exposed on the sea bed.
In Wright the ‘sign-tree’ or ‘sine-tree’ is explained firstly as ‘one of the principal timbers of a roof’, and secondly as the ‘centerings of an arch’ (EDD).
McDonnel noted that seine nets were used by fishermen was on Yorkshire rivers from the twelfth century at least, and in salt-water estuaries soon afterwards (YRS62/122). The net was designed to hang in the water, and the ends were drawn together to prevent the fish from escaping: the practice meant the fisherman had to stand on the bank above the water in order to draw the net tight and the term ‘seine draught’ seems to have become associated with the right to do that.
The verb ‘to set’ could be to plant seeds or cuttings, and in some leases the tenants moving into a new property were held responsible for setting and planting a number of trees.