GLOSSARY. 



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Saddened, 77. Dried or hardened. 

 Otherwise the action of the feet on the 

 wet ground would make "staupings." 



Saugh, 34. The sallow-tree. See 

 IFatson's Halifax Words. 



Sawits, 172. 



Scaled, 78, 131. Spread, disperse. 



ScEMiNG, 6. "Her build." Mev James 

 Jiaine, Crook Hall. 



ScuDDE, 95. The dirt and grease from 

 a fleece when washed, called in the 

 factories "mouts"; the entire sub- 

 stance that falls on the floor being 

 called "shoddy" or "food," and 

 being sold at a high rate for top- 

 dressing grass land. 



Scuttle, 104. A wicker-basket with a 

 handle. 



Seckells, 172. The shackle at the end 

 of the beam, to Avhich the "swingle- 

 ti-ee " is hung. Socks, 172, are 

 ploughshares, U)id.!< Soccage. 



Shadowes, 106. Veils. 



Sheddes, 69. Partings made in the 

 wool by the finger. See Wiiyht sub 

 voce Seed. 



Sheirest, 106. Poorest. 



Skill, 20. To separate, divide. 



Short-coupled, 100. Compact, short, 

 thick-set ; spoken of a waggon when 

 the fore and hind wheels are closer 

 together than is usual. Short- 

 shanked, 83. Cf. " Our Longshanks, 

 Scotland's Scourge." 



Showle, 107, V. s. shovel. " To put to 

 bed with an iron shovel" is a peri- 

 phi-asis for " to bury." 



SiDE-wivERS, 148. The beams forming 

 the angle of the roof. 



SiKES, 38. A rill or brook. The Editor 

 of Hatfield's Survey gives a definition 

 which is more appropriate to the 

 "Gipsey," for an account of which 

 see ISheaham's East Riding, II., 492. 



Skeel, 145. Skyle, 172. A milking 

 pail. 



Skellit, 176. A small metal pot for 

 the fire with a long handle. 



Skreene, 31. Hid this partition divide 

 the hall from the kitchen, the parlour 

 or a chamber ? 



Slain, 53. A disease resembling smut, 

 but more ruinous. In either case a 

 kind of soot takes the place of the 

 grain, but in smut it is blown away 

 by the wind, in slain the skin retains 

 it, and the black dirt spoils the 

 sample. 



Slice, 139. A fire shovel. (?) 



Sloumie, 54. With a big loose head, 

 much straw and little ear. 



Slush, 76. Puddle, sludge, mire. 



Smarring, 17. Marring, damaging. 

 Cf. srake and rake. 



Smoute, 62. A narrow passage or en- 

 ti-ance. 



Snathinge axe, 121. Now called snar- 

 ing axe or snaying axe. Snath, 121, 

 is to prime or lop ; the word sn«d is 

 A. Saxon for the pole of a scythe, 

 whence the bearing of the family of 

 Sneyd of Staffordshire. 



Snoode, 4. Smooth, fine ; A. Saxon 

 " snidan." 



Snook, 74. To smeU, pry about curi- 

 ously. Halliwell. 



Snubbed, 77. Shortened, eaten down, 

 cut short. 



SoppES, 33. "When mown grass lies on 

 the field in wet lumps. 



Sorance, 68. Defect, soreness. 



Sparrie, 28. Of gi-ass, hai-d and dry, 

 as though it were icooden ; equals 

 Flinty, 99, spoken of wheat. 



Spaught, 133. A youth. 



Spelles. 62. Small splinters or cross- 

 pieces. 



Staddle, 34. The foundation of a 

 stack. 



Staggarth, 39. A farmer's stack-yard. 



Stagges, 176. A horse under three 

 years old. 



Stannes, 172. A table with one leg. 



Stapple, 6. 



" The stapple deep and thick, though to the 



very gniin. 

 Most strongly keepeth out the violentest raiu.' 

 Druyliin. 



Stark, 19. Stiff, strong. 

 Statute-day^, 134. The periodical 



meetings for hiiing farm servants, 



called " hirings" 

 Steaming, 103. Seasoning by boiling .' 

 Stear, 53. Stiff' and strong. 

 Stintage, 116. An inequality in the 



form of the demaine flat, from stinte 



(A. Saxon), to cease. 

 Stive, 79. Eyeball, pupil. 

 Stook, 43. To lay out in land ; twelve 



sheaves of com. 

 Stotts, 144. Male cattle from one to 



four years old. Steers, 176, are 



oxen imder three years. Sturkes, 



171, ai-e young cattle of any kind. 

 Stow, 80. To cut the ears, as of horses. 



Thorcsby. 

 Stower, 35. The staves in the side of 



a carl to which the planks are nailed. 

 Strickle. At page 52, the whetstone 



