| alkanet | A red dye obtained from the root of the plant Alkanna tinctoria (see sense 2), and… | 1343 | Go To Quotation |
| blood house | In a monastery or abbey: a building used for bloodletting. Cf. bloodletting n. 1. Obs. | 1385 | Go To Quotation |
| blood iron | An instrument used for performing phlebotomy, esp. on a horse. Obs. | 1401 | Go To Quotation |
| calver | An epithet applied to salmon or other fish. E. Müller thinks ‘fresh’; Way (Promp. Parv.)… | 1342 | Go To Quotation |
| camaca | A kind of fine fabric, probably of silk or satin. | 1338 | Go To Quotation |
| car | A wheeled, usually horse-drawn conveyance; a carriage, cart, or wagon. In later use… | 1320 | Go To Quotation |
| coal-fish | A fish (Merlangus or Pollachius carbonarius, or Gadus virens), allied to the Cod, so… | 1338 | Go To Quotation |
| galanga | = galangal n. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| galosh | In later use: An over-shoe (now usually made of india-rubber) worn to protect the… | 1373 | Go To Quotation |
| gobbet-royal | Some kind of sweetmeat. | 1361 | Go To Quotation |
| goose-house | A small house or shed in which geese are shut up for the night. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| graip | A three- or four-pronged fork used as a dung-fork or for digging. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| grapeys | The flesh of the grampus (prob. not distinguished from that of other cetaceans). | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| grilse | The name given to a young salmon on its first return to the river from the sea, and retained during the same year. | 1417 | Go To Quotation |
| grover | A kind of fur. | 1310 | Go To Quotation |
| grozier | = grozing-iron n. 1. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| gunmaker | One who makes or manufactures guns. | 1385 | Go To Quotation |
| gyle | the place where the gyle was set to cool. | 1333 | Go To Quotation |
| hog cote | A pigsty. Also fig. | 1414 | Go To Quotation |
| Iceland | General attrib. Designating things (esp. articles of trade, animals, minerals)… | 1419 | Go To Quotation |
| iling | = aisle n. | 1456 | Go To Quotation |
| irislams | A kind of material used to line a garment; (perh.) lamb's wool from Ireland. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| journal | Christian Church. A service-book containing the day-hours: = diurnal adj. 1. Obs. | 1355 | Go To Quotation |
| keelful | As much as a keel will hold. | 1478 | Go To Quotation |
| kelt | A salmon, sea-trout, or herling, in bad condition after spawning, before returning to the sea. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| kip- | some part of the harness of a draught horse. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| kirn | A churn. | 1338 | Go To Quotation |
| kirve | To carve. Hence kirving-knife, carving-knife. Obs. rare. | 1484 | Go To Quotation |
| ladysilver | Prob. a scribal error for laydsilver, an unattested variant of Middle English ladesilver… | 1536 | Go To Quotation |
| lampern | The river lamprey (Petromyzon fluviatilis). | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| landiron | An andiron, fire-dog. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| land-leave | ? A fee paid for permission to convey goods over certain land. | 1357 | Go To Quotation |
| langel(l | A woollen rug or blanket. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| langle | A thong, rope, or other contrivance used to confine the legs of an animal in order to prevent its straying; a hobble. Also fig. | 1394 | Go To Quotation |
| langsettle | A long bench or ‘settle’, usually with arms and a high back. | 1352 | Go To Quotation |
| leaching | The action of leach v. (in quot. concr.: a slice). Also attrib., as leaching-knife. | 1416 | Go To Quotation |
| lias | A blue limestone rock occurring in certain south-western counties of England. Also attrib. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| Lincoln | a say or fine serge made at Lincoln. | 1310 | Go To Quotation |
| ling | A name applied to various ericaceous plants, chiefly Calluna vulgaris; see heather n. | 1357 | Go To Quotation |
| lining | concr. The stuff with which garments are lined; the inner or under surface of… | 1401 | Go To Quotation |
| lin-pin | = linch-pin n. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| loadsaddle | A pack-saddle. | 1397 | Go To Quotation |
| louvre | strings to open or close the louvres (see 4). | 1356 | Go To Quotation |
| lum | ? An opening in a roof; a skylight. Obs. | 1507 | Go To Quotation |
| luminer(e | = illuminator n. 5. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| lute | A stringed musical instrument, much in vogue from the 14th to the 17th centuries, the… | 1361 | Go To Quotation |
| macer | A mace-bearer; (spec. in Scotland) an official charged with various ceremonial and administrative duties in a court of law. | 1379 | Go To Quotation |
| madrian | A spice, a sweetmeat; (app.) a kind of ginger; = gingerbread n. 1a. | 1357 | Go To Quotation |
| maison dieu | A hospital, a hospice; a home for the poor. | 1354 | Go To Quotation |
| massing-penny | A kind of payment or rent known from the account books of the medieval Abbey of Durham. | 1292 | Go To Quotation |
| milksile | A strainer for milk. Obs. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| mill-pick | An iron tool for producing a corrugated surface on a millstone. Now chiefly hist. | 1357 | Go To Quotation |
| mill-race | The swift current of water that drives a mill-wheel; a channel in which water runs to a watermill. Also fig. | 1478 | Go To Quotation |
| moorcock | The male of the red grouse, Lagopus lagopus. Also (occas.): the male of the… | 1329 | Go To Quotation |
| morse | The clasp or fastening of a cope, frequently made of gold or silver, and set with precious stones. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| mortar stone | A block of stone hollowed to form a mortar; spec. one used for separating barley from the husks (now hist.). | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| mouldbred | = mouldboard n. | 1343 | Go To Quotation |
| myour | A grater; esp. one for grating or crumbling bread. | 1316 | Go To Quotation |
| nail-tool | An implement used in making nails. | 1338 | Go To Quotation |
| napkin | A usually square piece of cloth, paper, etc., used at a meal to wipe the fingers and lips… | 1384 | Go To Quotation |
| night-chair | A commode for use at night. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| onion | The plant Allium cepa itself (family Liliaceae or Alliaceae), with long rolled… | 1356 | Go To Quotation |
| pargening | = pargeting n. 1. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| patel | Christian Church. = paten n. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| pattle | A tool like a small spade with a long handle, used chiefly to remove earth adhering to a… | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| pectoral | The part of a horse's harness or trappings which lies over the chest; an ornamental cloth for the chest of a horse. Obs. | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| perfurnish | trans. To decorate, trim, finish off (a garment); = perform v. 8b. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| pheasant | Any of numerous large, long-tailed game birds of the subfamily Phasianinae (family Phasianidae… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| piercer | A tool for piercing or boring holes, such as an auger, awl, or gimlet; (Archaeol.) a class of stone tool. Also fig. | 1344 | Go To Quotation |
| pionade | A sweet food, a confection (perh. containing peony seeds). | 1302 | Go To Quotation |
| plane | A flat tool used by plumbers, bricklayers, etc., to smooth the surface of sand or clay in a mould, etc. Obs. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| plougherband | Prob.: some part of the harness of a plough. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| plumber | Originally: a person who deals with or works in lead. Subsequently: a person who fits… | 1385 | Go To Quotation |
| pomple | Ryegrass, Lolium perenne, grown for fodder; the seed of this. | 1347 | Go To Quotation |
| pot-clip | A device for suspending a pot or cauldron over a fire, esp. one consisting of two… | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| pout net | A small, conical-shaped fishing net, its mouth formed into a semicircle by a frame, the… | 1443 | Go To Quotation |
| powdered | Of food: salted, pickled, or spiced for future use; preserved; cured. Now rare (Sc. and Eng. regional in later use). | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| provand | Food, provisions, provender; esp. the food and fodder provided for an army. Cf. provant n. 1. | 1341 | Go To Quotation |
| pulypyk | A type of pickaxe used in mining. | 1360 | Go To Quotation |
| pumice | As a mass noun: a very light, porous, grey or pale-coloured volcanic rock, proverbial… | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| purr | A fire poker. Now Eng. regional (chiefly north.). | 1357 | Go To Quotation |
| quicking | The action or process of planting a quickset hedge (usually hawthorn). Also concr.: the… | 1469 | Go To Quotation |
| rail | In sing. or pl.: a continuous series of these forming the horizontal part of a barrier; (hence) a fence or railing. | 1313 | Go To Quotation |
| reckon-crook | A device for suspending a cooking vessel over a fire; = reckon n.; a pot-hook for use with such a device. | 1469 | Go To Quotation |
| reeking | That which is exhaled or emitted, as smoke, vapour, breath, etc.; a cloud or wreath… | 1401 | Go To Quotation |
| renge | A sieve; a strainer. Now only in renge sieve. | 1362 | Go To Quotation |
| Rhenish | Designating wine produced in the Rhine region. | 1375 | Go To Quotation |
| rigwithy | = rigwiddie n. | 1419 | Go To Quotation |
| ringing | The act or practice of providing a thing with a ring or rings; spec. the putting of a ring… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| roan | A soft flexible leather prepared from sheepskin, used chiefly in bookbinding as a substitute for morocco. Cf. basan n. | 1383 | Go To Quotation |
| roke | Smoke. | 1292 | Go To Quotation |
| rondelet | = rondel n. 1a. Obs. | 1385 | Go To Quotation |
| roset | = sugar of roses at rose n. 1c. | 1363 | Go To Quotation |
| rotour | A person who plays the rote (rote n.). | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| roundlet | A small round or circular object; a round or circular piece of something; something formed into a small circle or ring. | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| rubbour | A cask or keg. | 1362 | Go To Quotation |
| rundlet | A cask or vessel of varying capacity; (also) the quantity of liquid contained in this… | 1380 | Go To Quotation |
| sackcloth | A coarse textile fabric (now of flax or hemp) used chiefly in the making of bags or sacks… | 1373 | Go To Quotation |
| sale | A rope for tying up cattle. Also attrib. saleband n. Obs. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sand-eel | A fish of the genus Ammodytes, having a slender, cylindrical, silvery body resembling that of an eel. | 1307 | Go To Quotation |
| sanders | = sandalwood n., in its various applications. (Cf. red sanders n.) | 1329 | Go To Quotation |
| sandragon | = dragon's blood n. | 1334 | Go To Quotation |
| sark | Building. To cover (a roof) with wooden boards or sarking felt (see quot. 1771 and sarking n.). | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| sarking | Building. The action of sark v. 2; also attrib., as sarking-board, sarking felt, sarking-nail. | 1464 | Go To Quotation |
| sartry | A tailor's workshop. | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| saucister | A sausage. | 1347 | Go To Quotation |
| scaffolding | The temporary framework of platforms and poles constructed to provide accommodation… | 1347 | Go To Quotation |
| scat | | 1344 | Go To Quotation |
| scrab | The crab or wild apple = crab n. Also attrib., as scrab-apple, scrab-tree. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| scrayfish | A crayfish. | 1309 | Go To Quotation |
| screw | As an apparatus for raising weights or applying pressure or strain. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| scummer | A shallow ladle or sieve for removing scum or floating matter from the surface of a liquid. | 1326 | Go To Quotation |
| seam | A kind of nail or rivet for fastening the overlapping edges of a clinker-built boat, the end… | 1406 | Go To Quotation |
| seether | One who is employed in boiling. | 1377 | Go To Quotation |
| shaft | A vertical or slightly inclined well-like excavation made in mining, tunnelling, etc., as… | 1433 | Go To Quotation |
| shakefork | A wooden fork with two tines or prongs used by threshers to shake and remove the straw… | 1338 | Go To Quotation |
| shearling | A sheep that has been once shorn. | 1378 | Go To Quotation |
| sheath | In ploughs of an old type, the bar connecting the beam and sole in front. | 1356 | Go To Quotation |
| shilboard | Meaning uncertain: the conjecture in quot. 1837 seems unlikely, as a plural would be expected. Also in Comb. shilboard-clog. | 1451 | Go To Quotation |
| shoat | A young weaned pig. | 1413 | Go To Quotation |
| sile | A large roofing-timber or rafter, usually one of a pair. Also sile-tree. | 1338 | Go To Quotation |
| sile | A strainer or sieve, esp. one for milk. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| silour | A canopy. Also attrib. | 1394 | Go To Quotation |
| skate | A fish of the genus Raia; esp. the common species Raia batis, a very large, flat, cartilaginous fish much used for food. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| skeel | A wooden bucket, pail, tub, or similar vessel used for some domestic purpose, chiefly… | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| skelf | A shelf (see also quot. 1802). | 1396 | Go To Quotation |
| skellat | A small bell, a hand-bell, used for ecclesiastical purposes, or by a bellman. Also transf., a scolding, railing woman. | 1398 | Go To Quotation |
| sker | ? A sickle. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| soam | A rope or chain, attaching a draught-horse or other animal to a wagon, plough, etc.; a trace-rope. Also attrib. in soam-chain. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| solder | A fusible metallic alloy used for uniting metal surfaces or parts. | 1374 | Go To Quotation |
| sole | A common British and European flat-fish (Solea vulgaris or solea), highly esteemed as food… | 1347 | Go To Quotation |
| sort | Some measure or weight of figs and raisins. | 1438 | Go To Quotation |
| sort | trans. To arrange (things, etc.) according to kind or quality, or after some settled… | 1358 | Go To Quotation |
| sorting | The action of the vb., in various senses; arrangement, classification. | 1358 | Go To Quotation |
| souse | Various parts of a pig or other animal, esp. the feet and ears, prepared or preserved for food by means of pickling. | 1391 | Go To Quotation |
| spalderling | A split and dried fish. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| spaning | attrib., as spaning-lamb, spaning-time; spaning brash n. weaning-brash; also transf.… | 1416 | Go To Quotation |
| sparling | The common European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus. (Used either as a generic or collective term, or of single fish.) | 1307 | Go To Quotation |
| sparring | The action of fitting or providing with spars, in various senses. | 1459 | Go To Quotation |
| sparver | A canopy for a bed (or cradle). | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| spature | A spatula. | 1348 | Go To Quotation |
| speer | A fixed screen for warding off an air-draught; a wooden partition near the door or by the fire-place; a chimney-post. | 1379 | Go To Quotation |
| spigot | A small wooden peg or pin used to stop the vent-hole of a barrel or cask; a vent-peg… | 1383 | Go To Quotation |
| spindling | (See quot. 1611.) | 1441 | Go To Quotation |
| sprent | ? A young turbot or other flat-fish. | 1324 | Go To Quotation |
| spret | A kind of rush, esp. the joint-leaved rush; coarse, reedy, or rush-like grass; a stalk or stem of this. | 1397 | Go To Quotation |
| sprout | Some kind of fish. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| Spruce | The country of Prussia. Also Spruce-land. Obs. | 1378 | Go To Quotation |
| spult | A spout. | 1470 | Go To Quotation |
| spun-yarn | Yarn fabricated by the process of spinning. | 1376 | Go To Quotation |
| stanchion | A case for an inkhorn. Obs. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| steeping | lead n. 5. | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| stend | A stick used by butchers to hold open a carcase. | 1481 | Go To Quotation |
| stocking | The action or process of fixing (a bell) to its stock, or furnishing (a gun) with a stock. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| stone-boat | A boat for transporting stones. | 1336 | Go To Quotation |
| stone-cart | A cart for carrying stones. | 1357 | Go To Quotation |
| stone-lath | A lath on which stone slates were fastened with ‘stone-brods’ (see stone-brod n.). | 1370 | Go To Quotation |
| stopped | (Sense uncertain: ? Stuffed.) Obs. | 1342 | Go To Quotation |
| strabrod | A wooden pin used in fastening thatch. | 1335 | Go To Quotation |
| strainer | A utensil or device for straining, filtering, or sifting; a filter, sieve, screen, or the like. | 1326 | Go To Quotation |
| strandling | Some kind of fur; ? the fur of the squirrel taken at Michaelmas. | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| strindle | Corrupt form of trindle n. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| suet | The solid fat round the loins and kidneys of certain animals, esp. that of the ox… | 1377 | Go To Quotation |
| sugar | A sweet crystalline substance, white when pure, obtained from a great variety of plant… | 1299 | Go To Quotation |
| sugar-loaf | A moulded conical mass of hard refined sugar (now rarely made). | 1422 | Go To Quotation |
| sugar-plate | A dainty kind of sweetmeat. Also applied to a sweet lozenge for medicinal use. | 1333 | Go To Quotation |
| surnap | A towel or napkin provided at table for use when washing the hands. | 1381 | Go To Quotation |
| swarding | ? The squaring of timber preparatory to sawing. Obs. | 1480 | Go To Quotation |
| swing-tree | = swingletree n. 2. | 1396 | Go To Quotation |
| tays | ? Some material or accessory used for vestments. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| temse | A sieve, esp. one used for bolting meal; a searce, a strainer. In mod. local use esp. a sieve used in brewing. | 1362 | Go To Quotation |
| terrar | An officer of a religious house, who was originally bursar for the farms and manors… | 1401 | Go To Quotation |
| tether | A rope, cord, or other fastening by which a horse, cow, or other beast is tied to a stake… | 1376 | Go To Quotation |
| thill | The thin stratum of fire-clay, etc. usually underlying a coal-seam; underclay; the floor or bottom of a seam of coal. | 1329 | Go To Quotation |
| thrinter | A sheep or bovine animal of three years or winters (now applied only to sheep). | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| thwart-saw | A saw for sawing timber across; a cross-cut saw. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| thykston(e | Roofing flags; = thack-stone n. at thack n. 2. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| tild | Each of the four cuts or portions into which a quarter of beef may be divided. | 1342 | Go To Quotation |
| tinfoil | Tin hammered or rolled into a thin sheet; also, a sheet of the same rubbed with… | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| tingle | A very small kind of nail; the smallest size of tack. Usually tingle nail n. also tingle sprig. | 1377 | Go To Quotation |
| tom-fool | As quasi-proper name, Tom Fool: a man mentally deficient; a half-witted person. Obs. | 1356 | Go To Quotation |
| top | A basket, as a measure of grapes or figs. | 1440 | Go To Quotation |
| trellised | Furnished with a trellis or trellis-work; formed of trellis-work; trained upon a trellis. | 1472 | Go To Quotation |
| trellising | The action of trellis v.; the making of, or furnishing with, a trellis. | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| trindle | A wheel; esp. a ‘trundle’ or lantern-wheel in a mill; also, the wheel of a wheelbarrow: = trendle… | 1343 | Go To Quotation |
| tunning | ? a ‘mell’ or mallet used to knock in the bung of a tun or cask. | 1362 | Go To Quotation |
| twinter | A two-year-old cow, ox, horse, or sheep. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| verdigris | A green or greenish blue substance obtained artificially by the action of dilute acetic… | 1300 | Go To Quotation |
| viver | A fishpond. | 1330 | Go To Quotation |
| wain-rope | A rope used for binding or securing a load on a wain. | 1371 | Go To Quotation |
| walsh-nut | = walnut n. 1. Also attrib. | 1368 | Go To Quotation |
| wame-tow | A girth or belly-band for a horse. | 1310 | Go To Quotation |
| wardrope | A rope for some mechanical purpose. | 1338 | Go To Quotation |
| water-gate | A channel for water, a watercourse. | 1368 | Go To Quotation |
| waterwaw | A water-wall. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| waw | A measure of weight, usually equal to twelve stone. | 1316 | Go To Quotation |
| way-leave | Permission to make and use a way for conveying coal from the pit-head across a person's… | 1427 | Go To Quotation |
| well-head | The place at which a spring breaks out of the ground; the head-spring or source of a stream or river. | 1340 | Go To Quotation |
| welling | The action of boiling or scalding. Also comb. welling-lead n. a cauldron. | 1371 | Go To Quotation |
| whinny | Covered or abounding with whins or furze-bushes. | 1482 | Go To Quotation |
| wind-band | A band which is ‘wound’ or put around something, as the nave-band or tire of a wheel. | 1313 | Go To Quotation |
| winnow-cloth | A winnowing-sheet. | 1404 | Go To Quotation |
| wood-yard | A yard or enclosure in which wood is chopped, sawn, or stored, esp. for use as fuel. Also transf. (quot. 1774). | 1309 | Go To Quotation |
| wool-packer | One who makes up packages of wool for transport or sale. Also, later, a machine for packing wool. | 1376 | Go To Quotation |
| yearn | trans. To curdle (milk), esp. for making into cheese; to make (cheese) of curdled milk. | 1371 | Go To Quotation |
| yearning | Rennet. Also attrib. | 1371 | Go To Quotation |
| yetling | A pot or boiler, usually of cast iron; esp. one with a bow-handle and three feet. | 1378 | Go To Quotation |
