| Addle |
To
earn |
| Agate |
At
work, occupied with |
| Akkle |
To
dress or tidy up |
| Avverbreead |
Haverbread
made from oatmeal when wheat flour was expensive |
| |
|
| Baht |
Without |
| Balk |
A
large beam or beam of scales for weighing |
| Bat |
Stroke;
'He's not struck a bat' - he's not done a stroke |
| Betty |
A
guard placed in front of the fire to keep the ashes in |
| Billy |
A
machine for slubbing cardings |
| Botch |
To
do a job carelessly |
| Brass |
Money |
| Brokken |
Broken |
| Brussen |
Burst
(applied to sacks); lucky (applied to a person) |
| Buffet |
A
small stool |
| Bunt |
A
bundle (of cloth) |
| Burl |
Pick
small pieces of hair etc. from cloth |
| Buzzer |
Mill
whistle or siren |
| |
|
| Caird
|
A
card or comb for dressing wool |
| Cal |
Gossip |
| Capt |
Suprised |
| Causey |
A
pavement, footpath |
| Chunter |
Grumble |
| Clammed |
Cold;
hungry, kept short of food |
| Clicks |
Hooks
for moving packs of wool |
| Cop |
Yarn
spun on a spindle |
| Cropper |
Cloth
dresser |
| Crozzil |
Hard
cinder found in furnaces |
| Cut |
Canal |
| |
|
| Din |
Noise |
| Do |
A
commotion, a lively time |
| Dollypawed |
Left-handed |
| Donned
up |
Dressed
in ones best clothes |
| Druft |
A
drying wind |
| |
|
| Fadge |
Bundles
of cloth or wool in a pack sheet skewered with wooden pack pricks |
| Fast |
Puzzled |
| Fearnaught |
A
wool mixing machine |
| Fent |
A
fag end of cloth, three-quarters of a yard beyond the length
of a piece. Weavers used to claim this to clothe their children |
| Fettle |
To
clean or set something in order |
| Fettler |
A
machine cleaner |
| Flit |
Move |
| Fold |
A
collection of houses standing in a yard |
| Frame |
To
set about a task effectively |
| Fruzzins |
Hairs
coming off the cloth when finished or from yarn when wound.
Loose fluff, often under a bed |
| |
|
| Gainest |
Nearest |
| Gers |
Grass |
| Gig |
A
kind of knife used to remove knots from the cloth |
| Goit |
Channel
cut to carry water to the mill |
| Ginnil |
A
narrow passage between buildings |
| |
|
| Hank |
Thread
wound on a large cylinder. A hank of wool or cotton is 840 yards;
560 yards in worsted |
| |
|
| Jacks |
Part
of a loom |
| Jerry |
A
finishing machine that removed rough surface of cloth |
| Jip |
Pain,
punishment |
| Joss |
The
master |
| |
|
| Knock
on |
To
get on with a job |
| Koil
Oil |
Coal
place |
| Kop |
Catch |
| |
|
| Lake |
To
be idle |
| Leck
or weet |
To
wet as in wetting the cloth with stale urine to bring out the
grease |
| Leet |
To
meet with |
| Lig |
Lie
down |
| Lithairse |
Dye
house; lister=dyer |
| Lumb |
Chimney |
| Lurry |
A
wagon |
| |
|
| Maister |
Master |
| Middlin |
Moderate |
| Miln |
A
mill |
| Milner |
Originally
the one who put the cloth in the milling stocks |
| Mongi |
Idle |
| Mule |
Spinning
machine |
| Mullock |
Mess
or muddle |
| Muff |
Make
a small noise |
| Mungo |
Old
rags and woollen material, shredded to be rewoven |
| |
|
| Nogs |
L-shaped
pieces of iron placed on the beam to hold the warp |
| Noils |
Short
fibres of wool removed by the combing machine |
| Noit |
Business |
| Nope |
To
hit, especially on the head |
| |
|
| Okker |
To
hesitate |
| Olis |
Always |
| Oss |
To
stir; move, to begin |
| Owt |
Anything |
| |
|
| Paand |
Pound
(£1) |
| Perch |
To
examine cloth by putting it over a rod, pole or perch, in order
to remove burls or motes |
| Pick |
To
throw the shuttle |
| Piggin |
A
lading can or small vessel |
| Poise |
Kick |
| Porty
woof |
Forty
threads |
| Pund |
Pound
(lb) weight |
| |
|
| Rordin |
A
Riding; a third part |
| Rovin |
In
wool spinning where the filaments are drawn out to a greater
length |
| Rush |
A
festival |
| |
|
| Saig |
Saw |
| Saigins |
Sawdust |
| Sam |
To
pick up or gather |
| Scribble |
To
give the first rough carding to wool or cotton |
| Shauve |
Slice
(of bread) |
| Shiftless |
Helpless |
| Shivvins |
Small
bits of wood in the wool or bits off the yarn (shavings) |
| Shoddy |
Waste
material thrown off by machines, used for low priced cloth |
| Skep
or skip |
A
willow basket |
| Skitter |
To
hurry one's work |
| Sliver |
A
long carding of wool |
| Slub |
To
draw out cardings into greater length |
| Sluffed |
Disappointed,
distressed |
| Stamperds |
The
four posts supporting a loom |
| Stocks |
Part
of milling machinery |
| Strinkle |
To
scatter or sprinkle |
| Sumpoil |
Place
to which surplus liquids flow |
| |
|
| Taew |
To
strive |
| Tail
goit |
Channel
from the mill |
| Tenter |
Frame
for stretching cloth to dry on tenter hooks |
| Thoil |
To
bear; endure; not begrudge; spare |
| Throng |
Busy |
| Thrum |
The
ends 0f the warp cut off from a piece of cloth |
| Thump |
Local
name for a feast or fair |
| Tig |
To
touch (as in childrens games) |
| Toit |
To
keep in toil; to keep in good order |
| Tuner |
One
who tunes or sets the looms for weaving |
| |
|
| Ummer |
Local
word for Hell |
| |
|
| Wanty |
A
girth for a pack horse |
| Wappy |
Quick;
a short cut |
| Wassock |
Daft |
| Wind |
To
wind bobbins |
| Wim
wam |
An
impulse or fancy |
| Winteredge |
Winter
hedge; clothes horse |
| Wit |
Commonsense |
| Worsit |
Worsted |
| Wom |
Home |
| |
|
| Yark |
To
jerk; pull or snatch |
