shill

A sailor, although most of the evidence relates to men who operated boats on the Ouse, the Trent and their tributaries. Several villages and towns in that region were ports.

places Rawcliffe Beverley Cawood York Hambleton Catton

sources Fenwick, Poll Tax Agnes Bird's will, 1398 Raine, York Minster Fabric ... Yorkshire Archaeological Jo... YAS Record Series

dates 1280 1301 1320 1379 1398 1421

shippen

spellings shippon

A cattle shed or cow house, a word of Old English origin.

places Slaidburn Horton in Ribblesdale Bracewell

sources William Stokoe's administra... Deed relating to Horton in ... Knaresborough session roll ...

dates 1705 1707 1717

shipping timber

Probably timber that was suitable for building ships.

places Whitby

sources YAS Record Series

dates 1541

shipwright

A carpenter with the special skills required for building ships.

places York Hull Scarborough Snaith Beverley

sources Yorkshire Archaeological Jo... York freemen's register Fenwick, Poll Tax Gilbert Kyllyngholme's will... William Watson's will, 1527 YAS Record Series vol. 1 YAS Record Series Purvis, York Admiralty Cour...

dates 1280 1308 1377 1417 1446 1527 1539 1586

shive

A slice.

places Conistone Rotherham

sources Richard Wigglesworth's Acco... Brears, Gentlewoman's Kitchen Doncaster and Wakefield ses...

dates 1669 1690 1700-1750

shiver

Slaty debris, shale or flakes. Shivers of hard stone had a market value.

places York Askrigg

sources Raine, York Minster Fabric ... The Compleat Collier Letter from P Hammond to Th...

dates 1432 1708 1746

shoat

spellings shote shott

A young, weaned pig.

places Elmswell South Cave Knaresborough

sources William Lakin's inventory 1563 Richard Cave's inventory, 1566 Thomas Coghill's will, 1586 John Marshall's will, 1617/18

dates 1563 1566 1585 1618

shod

Probably for ‘iron-shod’, used of a wooden implement furnished with a shoe or sheath of iron.

places Ripon Leeds Scriven North Frodingham Thornton Bridge Beverley

sources Margaret Pigott's inventory... Thoresby Society Publications Anthony Wood's inventory, 1632 Yorkshire Archaeological Jo... William Knyvett's will 1557 YAS Record Series

dates 1485 1515 1557 1576 1577 1632

shoe

The wooden piles used in dams, river defences and bridge foundations were often provided with an iron shoe at the pointed end.

places Ilkley Leeds

sources Quarter Session rolls 1662-... Thoresby Society Publications

dates 1322 1675

shoe-broad

A common field-name, probably derived from 'shovel broad' so referring originally to a narrow strip of land.

places Pudsey Spofforth

sources Thoresby Society Publications YAS Record Series

dates 1200-1299 1312 1346

shoemaker board

Presumably a shoemaker's working bench.

places Hull

sources Edmund Talbot's and John Fo... William Crauseter's book 14...

dates 1483 1490

shoon

The old plural of ‘shoe’, still used by dialect speakers, with ‘shooin’ as the form in much of the West Riding.

places Hull York Selby Ripley South Cave

sources Thomas Moigne's account 1460 William Barton's will, 1509 York Memoranda Book Alysander Atkinson's will 1543 John Howden's will, 1571

dates 1460 1509 1519 1543 1570

shooting glove

A glove worn to protect the hand when drawing a bow.

places Skipton York West Bretton

sources Whitaker, History of Deaner... Webb, Churchwardens' Accounts Sir Thomas Wentworth's inve... Yorkshire Archaeological Jo...

dates 1525 1537 1542 1558

shop

A building where goods were made and prepared for sale, also used frequently of work-places.

places York Ripon Scriven Pickering Sheffield

sources Alan de Alnewyk's will, 1374 Surtees Society Publications John Roundell's will, 1584/5 North Riding Records Ronksley, Sheffield Manor S... Thomas Taylor's inventory, ... York Memoranda Book

dates 1374 1399 1584 1619-1621 1637 1730

shore(1)

A regional spelling of ‘sewer’.

places Elland Wakefield

sources Turner, Oliver Heywood's Di... Quarter sessions indictment...

dates 1664 1766

shore(2)

Land by a river (OED), or a precipitous slope (PNWR7/242). Research by David Shore suggests that it was more accurately ‘an arc of rising land above a river or stream’.

places Huddersfield

sources Redmonds, Place-Names of Hu...

shored

Of uncertain meaning, possibly 'shared' or 'brought ashore'.

places Sessay

sources Dyson, William Metcalfe's Book

dates 1797

short end

Of uncertain meaning, but evidently a short section of a felled tree.

places Almondbury

sources Accounts re: hounds, eggs e...

dates 1629

shot(1)

The reckoning or bill, especially one in an ale-house, an obligation discharged.

places York Thurlstone Oxenhope

sources John Briggs' deposition 1640 Diary of Adam Eyre 1641-168... Quarter Session rolls 1662-...

dates 1640 1647 1676

shot(2)

Thrust out or projecting.

places York

sources York House Book 8

dates 1501

shot(3)

Of uncertain meaning but descriptive of a process in tanning.

places Selby Knaresborough

sources John Titlow the Younger's w... Wetherby session roll Janua...

dates 1660 1720

shotten herring

A reference to fish that have spawned.

places York Hull

sources York House Book 9 YAS Record Series

dates 1510 1517

shoul

spellings shoule

These are the usual dialect forms of ‘shovel’.

places Whitby Thornton Bridge Elland Farnley Tong

sources Surtees Society Publications William Knyvett's will 1557 Parish Registers Farnley pit accounts 1690-1720 Account book of John Sowden...

dates 1395 1557 1655 1704 1789

shout

A flat-bottomed boat.

places York

sources John Rodes' will, 1457

dates 1457

shove-board

An alternative of shovel-board.

places West Riding

sources Quarter sessions order book...

dates 1648

shove-groat

An alternative of shove- or shovel-board.

places Marston

sources Yorkshire Archaeological Jo...

dates 1594

shovel

spellings sholve shoul shoule shulve

Many shovels were wooden implements, ‘shod’ with iron.

places Brandsby South Crosland Woodsome Stockeld Whitby Thornton Bridge Elland Farnley Tong

sources Richard Cholmeley's book 16... Articles of agreement South... Kaye Commonplace Book Yorkshire Archaeological Jo... Surtees Society Publications William Knyvett's will 1557 Parish Registers Farnley pit accounts 1690-1720 Tong Mss

dates 1395 1557 1570 1614 1616 1655 1666 1707 1789

shovel-board

A game in which a coin is driven by a blow with the palm of the hand along a board marked with transverse lines.

places Bagby Middleham Skipton Thirsk

sources Quarter Sessions Records Whitaker, History of Deaner... 1575 Visitation Court Book 1

dates 1575 1607 1608 1619

showing

For shoeing, as when shoeing animals.

places Ripley Ilkley

sources Alysander Atkinson's will 1543 Quarter Session rolls 1662-...

dates 1543 1675

shrogg

spellings scrogg

A regional word for scrubby woodland, first recorded in the Towneley Mysteries.

places Nether Shitlington Huddersfield Esholt Sedbergh Hoylandswaine Catterlen Wood, Cumberland

sources Wetherby session roll Janua... Declarations relating to Ki... Agreement concerning fir tr... Place-names of West Riding ... Place-names of Cumberland Pt 2

dates 1292 1479 1662 1697-1698 1763 1871

shrub oak

An alternative form of scrub oak.

places Kexbrough Aldborough

sources Yorkshire Archaeological Jo... Surtees Society Publications

dates 1543-1544 1574

shruff brass

Old or broken metal that might be converted into weapons.

places Sheffield

sources South Yorkshire collection

dates 1709

shutt

A variety of meanings, including a division of land; a synonym for 'furlong'; or an enclosure of a town field.

places Kirkheaton Lepton Northowram Brampton Bierlow

sources Bargain and sale of land at... Beaumont of Whitley Wakefield Court Rolls 4 Oct... Yorkshire Archaeological Jo...

dates 1601 1604 1680 1687

shuttle

In contexts which relate to water mills, reservoirs or drainage systems, a ‘shuttle’ was a flood-gate; that is a hatch or ‘door’ which controlled the flow of water and needed to be raised to allow it to flow freely.