I'm definitely a fettler and we kept a lot of junk in our koil oil!!As a teenager i laked about alot and now i find I'm fast most of the time.
Fadge
Bundles of cloth or wool in a pack sheet skewered with wooden pack pricks
Fent
Flit
Move
Fold
A collection of houses standing in a yard
Gers
Grass
Gig
A kind of knife used to remove knots from the cloth
Goit
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
Joss
The master
Knock on
Lake
To be idle
Lithairse
Dye house; lister=dyer
Lurry
A wagon
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Fadge
Bundles of cloth or wool in a pack sheet skewered with wooden pack pricks
Fast
Puzzled
Puzzled
Fearnaught
A wool mixing machine
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
To clean or set something in order
Fettler
A machine cleaner
A machine cleaner
Flit
Move
Fold
A collection of houses standing in a yard
Frame
To set about a task effectively
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
Hairs coming off the cloth when finished or from yarn when wound. Loose fluff, often under a bed
Gainest
Nearest
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
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
A finishing machine that removed rough surface of cloth
Jip
Pain, punishment
Pain, punishment
Joss
The master
Knock on
To get on with a job
Koil Oil
Coal place
Coal place
Kop
Catch
Catch
Lake
To be idle
Leck or weet
To wet as in wetting the cloth with stale urine to bring out the grease
To wet as in wetting the cloth with stale urine to bring out the grease
Leet
To meet with
To meet with
Lig
Lie down
Lie down
Lithairse
Dye house; lister=dyer
Lumb
Chimney
Chimney
Lurry
A wagon
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Yep, use 'fettle' often, there is a 'ginnil' near my Mum and Dad's, 'kop' also used as in "You'll really kop for it now" - but also used as a teenager to mean kissing as in "Jill has kopped off with Bob". Interestingly (haha well I find it interesting) kop is Swedish for purchase or taking over. A lot of Northern dialect is Scandanavian in origin. Looking forward to your next instalment.
ReplyDeleteOh yes i remember Kopping off!!
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