The tenter was a simple wooden structure on which cloth was stretched after the fulling process, and it consisted of posts and two bars, the upper and the lower.
‘Thack’ was until recently a common word in parts of Yorkshire for ‘roof’, and despite its obvious links to the word ‘thatch’ it could refer to roofs made of slatestones, tiles or shingles.
Salzman considered that these were not wooden tiles or shingles, but boards which were laid across the roof in readiness for thatching, or perhaps tiling, but the evidence is not conclusive.
A game in which the player has several thimbles and the challenger has to identify which one masks the button, played illegally for money on this occasion.
These words are now met with frequently in accounts of dry-stone walling but they are on record in mason work from a very early date. A ‘through-stone’ extended through the thickness of a wall, and a certain number were considered essential for its stability.
The unwoven ends of the warp threads; short pieces or remnants of thread or yarn. In some sources thrums are referred to as ‘waste’ but they had many uses and a clear market value.