Yorkshire Historical Dictionary @YorksDictionary
Historic Yorkshire dialect, language and sayings @UoYBorthwick. Website to follow. Get in touch with examples you've found! York, England Joined November 2017-
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In amongst the hugely important world events we are experiencing, worth taking a moment to consider that the police believe multiple public officials at the heart of government committed criminal offences. Worth asking how this happened and what it says about this govt.
@JaneSetter @VoicesofEnglish @RobDrummond There are a few options in the Yorkshire Historical Dictionary (Yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk) - it may depend on date/place and the context - ie. If the clearing is manmade or natural, by one person or many, associated with particular wildlife or trees etc etc
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Know what 'cricket' once meant in Yorkshire? Stumped? New lost Yorkshire words are revealed TODAY in the latest volume of the Yorkshire Historical Dictionary (@YorksDictionary): ow.ly/ZM7y50FH9Bt @UoYBorthwick @gillintmoors #YorkshireDay #YorkResearch
The dictionary, in 2 volumes, is now available from the publishers here: boydellandbrewer.com/9781916506671/…
@WkfdHistSoc this word is from a diary written in Lupset in 1833 and held at Wakefield Local Studies Library - does it ring any bells with you or your members?
Anyone have any knowledge of the word 'chiltered'? It was used in reference to blood from an old wound in an 1830s WRY diary, and more recently, in the mid20thC, as a type of boat varnish (yes really). Intrigued that relatively recent usage has not equalled dictionary inclusion.
@kenticisms Thanks for the confirmation!
Anyone have any knowledge of the word 'chiltered'? It was used in reference to blood from an old wound in an 1830s WRY diary, and more recently, in the mid20thC, as a type of boat varnish (yes really). Intrigued that relatively recent usage has not equalled dictionary inclusion.
Here's the dictionary entry: yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk/words/draw%20a… The bridge shown above is the Charles bridge in Prague.
Here's a great gif illustrating how bridge builders would 'draw away' water so that the foundations could be built gfycat.com/bouncydistantb…
@The_Dalesman @YorksDictionary @hedgehogsociety My grandfather living in North Yorkshire always called them :”pricky—backed otchins
So sea urchins are sea hedgehogs!
Did you know hedgehogs used to be known as urchins during the Middle Ages? Get this month’s Dalesman and @YorksDictionary will tell you more in ‘Word play’... @hedgehogsociety
And in Yorkshire, the 'n' never left! yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk/words/milne
The words MILL and KILN derive from the Old English words ‘mylen’ and ‘cylen’. Their Ns disappeared in the Middle English period—and for a time KILN was pronounced ‘kill’—but while MILL never regained it, the N in KILN resurfaced in the 1500s and has remained in place ever since.
@LostCheshire Interesting to see the related/similar terms across county borders!
@LostCheshire We have CAPEL for the horn joint of a flail, CAPLIN as the leather loop of the same purpose, and SWIPPLE was the part of a flail which strikes the grain when threshing #dialect #farming #Yorkshire
Interesting, we have WITH(E), a term for a tough flexible twig of birch, hazel or willow - and WITHY, in Yorkshire, appears to be an alternative spelling of this (with the added E). So, for example, in 1661, a Glaisdale man was said to be a rogue who 'deserves a withy' #dialect
the major division in today's map is between places where this tree was called 'withy' and places it was called 'willow' - in places where 'willow' referred to the tree, 'withy' often referred to cut willow sticks.
How about: FELL for finishing off a piece or a warp (Keighley, 1794) SLAY for an instrument to keep the threads straight. Often linked with HEALD (Beverley 1498; Wombwell 1559; Winsley 1602) TEMPLE for keeping cloth stretched to its proper width on the loom (South Cave 1611)
A selection of weaving tools. DRAVING-IN HOOK for picking the reed and driving the ends through LOOM-KNIFE for picking the cloth YELL-HOOK for putting yarn through yells and reed PICKING PEG for throwing the shuttle We wonder if @QuarryBankNT or @maccmuseums have any of these?
Interesting! We have KELTER for a coarse fabric (yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk/words/kelter) but KETMENT calls to mind other terms for assorted bits and pieces like HUSTLEMENT (yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk/words/hustleme…)
what word would you use for things you throw away? have you ever come across 'rummage', 'ketment' or 'kelter'? #linguistics #englishlanguage #dialect #maps #mapporn #dialectology #dataviz #gis #variation
@TJClarion Definitely, Dr Redmonds believed it was a metasthesized spelling of stirk - but it occurs regularly: Howden 1457; Burton on Ure 1495; Abbotside 1589
There were several definitions of STRIKE in Yorkshire too, including painting an image, a bullock or heifer up to 2 years old, and a dry measure of corn/peas - or the vessel holding that amount yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk/words/strike #dialect #yorkshire #language
In A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect there are several definitions for STRIKE. One is applied to drawing water from a well. "To strike a bucket," was to draw a full bucket towards the side of the well as it hung by the chain of the windlass and land it safely on the well-side.
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