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GLOSSARY. 



Gaqoe, 123. The bite of a horse. Was 

 this swan's mark an imitation of teeth 

 markes ? 



'^vT.i/jw-BALKE, 176. The iron bar in 

 i.ij c.iimnej' whence the pot-hooks or 

 reckon •crooks are hung. 



Gares, 43. Irregular lands, either from 

 defect or from a triangular piece of 

 land being tacked on, making one end 

 of the land wider than the other. 

 Called also '^'^ gears" and ^"^ gores," 

 which last word Chaucer uses for 

 three-cornered pieces of cloth. Cf. 

 Robinson Crusoe's ^^leg-of-mutton- 

 sail." 



Gates or Ge.vstes, 118. The stray or 

 grazing of cattle, called Cowes Cost, 

 154. In 1705 Christopher Gregson 

 of Bank-end, co. Westm., buj's "two 

 cattle-grasses in a pasture." Animals 

 that are thus summered are now 

 called "jeisters." 



Gate-law, 18. Charges in return for 

 leave of road. 



Gavelock, 172. A crowbar or lever. 



Gialfatte, 172. A wort tub. 



GiRLiNGS, 76. Bundles. 



Godspenny, 70. Aries or earnest. 



Gilts, 141. Females made barren by 

 an operation of the knife. German 

 gelten. 



GowTS, 141. Gautes, 142. Boar Pigs. 



Graingers, 97. A lone house is called 

 a grange ; therefore, the tenants at a 

 distance, those from the outlying 

 farms. 



Grainixqes, 61. The fork of the 

 sweathrake or com sweep, made by 

 splitting a willow, unless a natural 

 fork can be found; what the Scotch 

 call " the grains." 



Grave, 70. To pare or dig up the 

 ground. 



Greasinoe, 29. Salving, now called 

 *' harmes." 



Greets, 1 19. " The Lord's greets, 

 commons, or wastes " Lanchester, 

 1618. Eccl. Proc. Bun. 



Grone, 144. The run or eatage. Qu. 

 what was grown } 



H. 

 Hacks, 172. German. A two-pronged 



hoe. 

 Hail on, 60. Load, throw on. Cf. 



Acts, viii. 3. 

 £and-wave, 104. To winnow, fan ; 



from the notion of separation arises 



the use in the text. 



Hard Land, 32. Opposed to moist 

 ground. Hard Meate, 73, hay and 

 straw, opposed to grass and greeu 

 fodder Brockett suggests that wheat 

 and r}'e are called "hard com" be- 

 cause they stand the winter. 1776, 

 4 acres hard com, 10/. All other 

 grains are called "wair" or wear. 

 1582, 8 acres of wair com, 17/. 1772, 

 12 acres ware com, 21/. 



Harrow Ball, 107. The frame of a 

 harrow, now called a "bim." Har- 

 row SPINDLES, 120 the ".slots" or 

 crosspieces which are morticed through 

 the buns. 



Haunt, 35. The habit of getting wrong. 



Hawme, 60. The stubble left long that 

 it may be mown and used for bedding 

 or thatching. 



Hearty, 104. In heart,5l ; called also 

 fat, 31. Opposed to heartksse, 37; 

 faint, 143 ; bare, 51. 



Heck, 18. A rack. Heck-stowers, 120. 

 Rack-staffs. St.vxd-hecks, 74. Four- 

 sided racks in fold-yards. 



Helme. See note on page 58. 



Hemme in, 35. To throw up in wind- 

 row, '■'■close in." The same notion 

 gave rise to the name of sewing linen 

 in one particular mode. 



Heppen, 133. Smart, tidy, active. 



Hoast-howses, 100. A farmer's inn at 

 market. 



Hopper, U. A seed-basket. Hopper- 

 galde, 50. When com is badly sown 

 it grows in lumps, here too thick, there 

 thin. 



Hoi'PiNO-TREE, 137. The stumps in 

 front of a waggon when the shafts 

 have been pulled out, now called 

 waggon shears. " 1G39, certain fclfes, 

 two middle trees, one payre of cart- 

 sides, one cart-ti'ce, and one nave, 

 10«." 



Hopple, 7. To tie the front or hind 

 legs of a horse together. To tio 

 a front and hind leg together is to 

 Sidelange, page 28. 



Howsoever, 5. At any rate. 



HiDDE, 122. The hob, the side of the 

 fire-place within the chimney. 



Hushand, 45. Husbandly, 76. See 

 note on page 131. 



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Illions, 142. Wax ends, or the waxed 

 threads \iscd by cobblers, which are 

 still much used by farmers to mend 

 horse trappings, " blinders," and 

 traces. 



