Chapter 8, Item 18a
Plough parts
The Terms of all the parts of a Plow.
The Sough or Suck, is that as Plows into the ground.
The Culter, is that as cuts the Clod.
The Throck, is the piece of Timber on which the Suck is fixed.
The Reest, is the Boards on the side of the Plow that turns over the Furrow.
The Shell Board.
The Mould Board.
The Plow Beam.
The Sheath, is that which holds the Beam and Throck together.
The Buck, is the Iron which the Horses are tyed unto.
The Plow Cock, is the Iron to tye the Oxen to the Plow.
The Foot, is the piece of Hooked or Bended Wood, at the end of the Plow, under the Suck; which is to keep it from going too deep in the Earth.
The Plow tails or Stilts.
The Plow Handles, are them by which the Man guideth the Plow.
The Master Handle, is that on the left hand, which he holdeth while he cleareth the Plow from clogging earth.
The Plow Staff and Paddle, by which he cleanseth the Plow from the said clogged Earth or Mould. Wedges, to wedge the Culture, and hold it fast.
The Plow Clats, a kind of Wedge to raise the Beam higher or lower, to make it strike accordingly into the ground.
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Chapter 8, Item 18b
Plowing terms
Terms used in Plowing.
Tillage, comprehends generally all manner of Husbanding the Ground.
Vertillage, is preparing of Ground to receive its Seed by stirring, tossing or turning the same.
Delvage, see Vertillage.
Carvage, is Plowing of Ground, either Ordinary for Grain, Hemp and Line, or extraordinary for Woad, Diers Weed, Rape, Punick and such like.
Scaphiage, is Digging and Delving of Ground, and Fictilage, is and ordering of Clayie ground for what use we would have it.
Fertilage, is an enriching of Soil.
Share, is the Earth next unto the first Crust, turned up by the Spade or Plow.
Sweard, of some called Swarth, the Turf or up per Crust of Heath Ground.
Broovage or Browage, is feeding of Sheep and Goats.
Crust clung, or Soil Bound, is an hard sticking together of the Earth, that nothing will grow on it.
Chapping, is ground full of Chinks and Cravises by reason of Drought.
Mucking or Manuring of Ground, is several ways, as with Ashes, Lime, Malt Dust, Horn shavings, Soot, Dung of Horses, Cows, Birds, Doves, Poultry, Mans Excrements, Sheep, Swine, putrified Litter, Chaff, Bean Stalks, Leaves of Trees laid to rot, Marl, Chalk, Fullers Clay, Oyster shells, &c.
Fallow ground, Land unplowed.
Tilthes,
Forage,
Glebe Land, Land given to the Church for the Ministers Maintenance.
Intersoiling, is laying one kind of Soil or Earth upon another as Clay and Sand, or Sand and Earth, &c.
Arable Ground, that as is Plowed and Sowed.
Flats, ground having no ridges.
Tessel, in good Tessel, ground in good Order for Plowing and Sowing.
Pin Fallow, is Plowing twice for Pease, first in Christmas, then in March.
Compost, compound or mixt grounds.
Earing of Ground,
Brise, is a kind of ground lyen long untilled.
Grazing Ground, that which is eaten of Cattel.
Meadow Ground, that as is let grow for Hay.
Third Earing, the third time Plowed.
Carfe, the Ground unbroken.
Balk, waste Ground between two Butts or Ridges.
Dezy, or wet ground.
Trenches, or Water Furrows.
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Chapter 8, Item 28a
Dairy terms
All the Terms used by Dairy People about making of Cheese and Butter,
| Runnet or Steep, Renish | Two Milk Cheese. |
| Clotted, cruded Milk. | Flet Milk Cheese. |
| Cruds. | Faded Cheese, when it is |
| Break the Cruds. | either Rotten, full of |
| Whay. | Mites, or Green. |
| Thruching. | Parmazine, or old Cheese. |
| Whay Cream | Thruch them in the Cheese |
| Fleeting. | Fate. |
| Sweet Cheese. | Press the Cheese. |
| Sage, or Mint, or Mary-gold | Salt the Cheese. |
| Cheese. | Dry the Cheese. |
| New Milk Cheese. | Turn the Cheese. |
| Flet and unflet Cheese. | |
| Milk the Cows. | Cracked Milk. |
| Seigh the Milk. | Churn Milk. Butter Milk. |
| New Milk. | Thick Milk, is Churned |
| Scum the Milk. | Milk gone thick. |
| Cream. Top of Milk. | Whigg, is the bottom or |
| Good Milk. | breaking of thick Milk. |
| Lew Milk. | Wash the Butter. |
| Boni Thlobber, is good | Knife the Butter. |
| Milk gone thick. | Salt it. Pot it. |
| A Print of Butter. | Whay Butter. |
| A Dish of Butter. | Cream Butter. |
| A Pot or Tub of Butter. |
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Chapter 8, Item 31a
Ox yoke parts
The parts of a Yoke.
The Yoke, the thick piece of Wood which lyeth on the Oxens Neck.
The Bowes, that as compasses the Neck about and goeth through the Yoke of Wood.
The Stickings and Wreathings, are them as hold the Bowes fast in the Yoke.
The Yoke Ring, and Oxe Chain.
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