GLOSSARY OF TERMS IN INVENTORIES
| AMBRY or AUMBRY | Safe or cupboard where cold food is kept |
| ASSLE TREE | Axle tree- the pin or shaft on which a cartwheel turns |
| BALK | Rafter in kitcher or outhouse, rack fixed to rafter to hold flitches of bacon. A hay loft |
| BARKHAAM,BARFAM, BARFAN,BRAFFAM | Collar or shoulder yoke for a draught horse |
| BAUKTREE | Principle beam in a building |
| BAUFREY | Beam |
| BAWKER | Beam |
| BEAUFET (BEAUFAT) | Cupboard |
| BICKER | Small wooden dish, or vessel made of staves and loops, like a tub. |
| BING | Bin (wine bin or corn bin) |
| BOLL or POOLE | Corn measure in the North - quantity varies from 2 bushels to, in some places,6 |
| CHESSELL or CHESWELL | Cheese press |
| CODD | Pillow |
| CODWER, CODWARD | Pillowcase |
| COG | Wooden desk or milk pail |
| COUBERT, COBBERT | Cupboard |
| COUP (CART) | A sledge with a box top, often used for muck spreading. Short cart capable of being tipped up to be emptied |
| COWL RAKE | Muck rake |
| CRACKET | Low stool |
| CREEING TROUGH | Large stone mortar for taking the husk off barley or wheat |
| DESS | Pile or truss of hay |
| DUBLER | Trencher |
| FATT | Vat |
| FELLE, FELLOE | Section of the rim of a wooden cartwheel |
| FRISE | Thick woollen cloth used for cloaks |
| GEARE | Equipment, but frequently used for horse harness (eg for a plough) |
| GYLE FAT | A wort tub in which liquor ferments |
| HAPPIN | Warm bed cover |
| HARD CORN | Wheat or maslin (cf) sown before winter |
| HARDEN (CLOTH) | Coarse linen or hemp |
| HUSLEMENTS | Odds and ends |
| KAIL POT | Large metal cooking pot |
| KILNE HAIR | Cloth for the floor of a malt kiln |
| KILP or KELP | Iron hook from which boiler hung |
| KIMLIN | Wooden tub |
| KIRN or KERN | Churn |
| KIST, CHIST, CHEIST | Chest |
| KYNE or KYEN | Cattle - milk cows |
| LEEA, LIA, LEA, LEIGH, LEAGH | Scythe |
| LIMMERS | Shafts of cart or carriage |
| MASK, MASKFAT, MASHFAT | Vat used for brewing |
| MASLIN, MASSELGAM | Mixture of wheat and rye for household bread |
| MAUNDE | A large open basket |
| PILLOWBERE | Pillow case |
| PLENISHINGS | Household furniture |
| POSSET -CUP | Cup of silver or pewter in which hot drinks were served |
| POTKILPE | Hook on which to hang a cooking pot |
| POTTINGER | A course earthenware pot with a handle |
| PIGG | Small wooden hand pail made of staves (like a barrel) |
| PULLEN | Pullet |
| QUISHIN | Cushion |
| SAWSER | Small dish or sauce holder |
| SCALE (DISH) | Thin dish used in dairy for skimming milk |
| SCOMCE | Fixed slat at one side of the fireplace in the old large open chimney. |
| SEAVE | Rush candle |
| SHACK-FORK | Pitch fork |
| SHULL, SHUIL, SCHOOL | Spade or shovel |
| SILE | Fine sieve or milk strainer |
| SILLS, SHILLS | Shafts of a cart or plough |
| SOCK | Ploughshare |
| SKEEL | Cylindrical wooden tub or vessel for carrying milk or water with an upright handle |
| SPENCE | Inner compartment, larder, country parlour |
| STAG | Unbroken, unshod pony; Gelding over one year old; Calf |
| STAGGARTH | Stockyard (stock garth) |
| STANG | Pole or stake (shaft of cart or carriage) |
| STEE, STEY | Larder |
| STEEL or STELE | Wooden handle of rake or pitchfork |
| STOCK BED | Low, moveable bed |
| STOTT | Young Ox - 2 to 3 ye~rs old |
| STOUP | A post |
| SWILL | Round basket of willows, generally to be carried on the head |
| SWINGLETREE | Bars to which plough traces are yoked to plough |
| TEAME | The "long chain" to which a span or more than one span of oxen were attached from yoke to yoke. |
| TESTER BED | Bed with curtains |
| THWART SAW | Cross-cut saw |
| TWINTER | Two year old sheep |
| THREAVE | 12 bundles of straw |
| TEMSE | Flour sieve of hair cloth |
| TEARSE (TIERCE) | Large barrel |
| VALLANCE, VALLANS | Curtain for bed |
| WHISKET, WISKIT | A kind of basket, small clothes basket |
| WHYE | Heifer or young cow |
| WIGHT | Loop with a skin stitched over it for handling grain |
| WEDDER | Wether, gelded sheep |