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basket ; a " renge " probably the same as a range or bolting 

 sieve to sift meal ; a " serch," which is in the same item as 

 various sieves, may be the same as a sarse, scarce, or searse, 

 which is a fine sieve. " Reckes " in the item " Reckes and 

 Hurdells 1 " I cannot make out. It is not rakes, for 

 " rackes " comes just above in association with shovels, 

 picks, forks, and iron wedges and similar implements for 

 13s. 4d. It cannot be ricks, as hay is mentioned elsewhere 

 at 8, and ricks would even then be worth much more than 1, 

 not including hurdles. It may mean racks for putting hay 

 into for feeding sheep, &c. Mr. H. Symonds tells me he 

 has seen this word meaning a small basket, in a 

 17th cent. Somerset document.* I am not sure if a " saive " 

 means a sieve, as we have " 6 seives " just below. " 3 

 grunters " in the Millhouse, associated with " one henn Coope 

 and one Tubb " at 6s. 8d. are, I am told, probably the same 

 as " grintings " or " grintons " (spelling uncertain), and 

 mean bins with divisions for corn for grinding. They cannot 

 be pigs, as they are amply provided for elsewhere. " Skillets " 

 are, I believe, bowls with long handles, to be used as saucepans. 

 " One Charter " associated with " two basons and two pewter 

 plats," I do not know the meaning of. One or two friends 

 have suggested that it is a misspelling for charger, and 

 this may be so, but it is only a guess. " Fower payre of 

 Hangings " associated with iron spits, dripping pans, pot 

 hooks, &c., are probably some kind of hooks. Trendells, 

 couells, silt trowes, and stoninge trowes are found in the 

 Brewhouse. Silt trowes are salting troughs for bacon, and 

 stoninge trowes doubtless troughs for some other purpose. 

 Trendells are said by Webster to be weights or posts in a mill. 

 Mrs. Richardson tells me, however, that the shallow tubs used 

 for washing butter are called trendies. Mr. Symonds gives 

 me another meaning, a cooler for beer, also called " keever." 



* NOTE. Since writing the above, I find that " Reckes " are small 

 gateways fitted with side rollers to let the lambs run out of the 

 hurdles, while keeping in the ewes. 



