Regional words, terms and phrases.

[Estate fencing.]

How many names are there for the runs up and down a field when the headland is encountered at an angle, so a triangle shaped piece is left? Scoots, Running work, Short work, etc I'm sure there are load more.
Same goes for headlands: end rigs, turn rows, outside breeds. In the US most seemed to call them the end rows, but that was mainly on corn/maize where they literally were rows

We call that peck work.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Theaves are theaves because they thieve all your grass in the spring! As in “them there sheep thieved all my grass!”

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Wait till everyone agrees that a sheep gets rigged

 

[Estate fencing.]

Wait till everyone agrees that a sheep gets rigged

They get cast!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

They get cast!

They do if I find them rigged more than once

 

[borderterribles]

whats that?

Cow corn? Lancashire term.

 

[Will 1594]

Cow corn? Lancashire term.

Any relation to ,provimi Fish meal .?

 

[borderterribles]

Any relation to ,provimi Fish meal .?

More likely a shorter form of provender, I think

 

[Netherfield]

Wait till everyone agrees that a sheep gets rigged

And got a beer named after it

Riggwelter - Dark Yorkshire Ale | Black Sheep Brewery

The fabled Riggwelter has grown to be one of our most loved cask ales and remains a one-of-a-kind beer.

www.blacksheepbrewery.com

 

[Netherfield]

Any relation to ,provimi Fish meal .?

And that came out of Hull.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

And got a beer named after it

Riggwelter - Dark Yorkshire Ale | Black Sheep Brewery

The fabled Riggwelter has grown to be one of our most loved cask ales and remains a one-of-a-kind beer.

www.blacksheepbrewery.com

Must be true then

 

[organicguy]

here is a question, am I remembering right, when I can recall my grandfather talking about "cropping Sally trees", I have also never heard anyone else talking about using a "beetle" to knock in fence posts, or a "hacker" to split kindling wood.

I wonder whether Barley Ails is a local expression too? (Barley Awn)?

We talk of barley isles, aisles, ails, no ides how it is spelt!
a Beetle is the large sledgehammer, extra big head designed I guess not to spilt the post, we have a forged one and an aluminium one but try to avoid using them.
Short work can be called pickets, we have a triangular field called Picket End.

 

[Dave6170]

Need to get some of the doric lads on for the words they have.

 

[borderterribles]

I used to work with some Lincolnshire lads who used a short,thick steel bar, pointed at one end and with the middle bit forged square for knocking stakes into the ground. They referred to it as a Gablick. Does anyone else recognise this?

 

[Will 1594]

I used to work with some Lincolnshire lads who used a short,thick steel bar, pointed at one end and with the middle bit forged square for knocking stakes into the ground. They referred to it as a Gablick. Does anyone else recognise this?

We called it a gavloc
a lot of yorkshire dialect comes from icelandic and danish words ,if you look some up
icelandic term for strip or land rein ,and gejr For arrow head So pointy bit of field soon gets made into gejr rein Garing

klaeg Cleg ,horse fly , ta'en Taken

 

[ARW]

I used to work with some Lincolnshire lads who used a short,thick steel bar, pointed at one end and with the middle bit forged square for knocking stakes into the ground. They referred to it as a Gablick. Does anyone else recognise this?

We call them a gavlack, 4ft steel bar with a sharp end. Lads from further north sometimes call them a geblick

 

[Will 1594]

We talk of barley isles, aisles, ails, no ides how it is spelt!
a Beetle is the large sledgehammer, extra big head designed I guess not to spilt the post, we have a forged one and an aluminium one but try to avoid using them.
Short work can be called pickets, we have a triangular field called Picket End.

Big Ali hammer Is a mell

 

[Will 1594]

We call them a gavlack, 4ft steel bar with a sharp end. Lads from further north sometimes call them a geblick

Does your have a lolly pop shape at top of it ,still have one what theynused on yorkshire wolds when fording yows or lams on tonnups or mustard ,to knock sheep net stakes in ,the ones with metal ring on top tomstop them splitting and had a nail top bottommto hang wire on

 

[betweenthelines]

We talk of barley isles, aisles, ails, no ides how it is spelt!
a Beetle is the large sledgehammer, extra big head designed I guess not to spilt the post, we have a forged one and an aluminium one but try to avoid using them.
Short work can be called pickets, we have a triangular field called Picket End.

I'm from South Devon (but not the S Hams) and all the above is familiar.

Use a beetle to drive a post in after you've made a hole with a bar iron. Mend a gap in a hedge with a Devon Shovel (long handle, unlike a normal spade). Father used to make field gates out of shivers (sawn timbers) Farmer next door had a hay shed clad in zinc (c.g.i.) and used to "tetch out" freshly mown grass before he would "larr up" hay into rows for baling. Bales would be thrown onto the trailer using a "eevil" (pitch fork)

After ploughing in the Autumn father would "draw up the voard" (move soil to the top of the field) -but I doubt if anyone under 60 knows anything about that

 

[Netherfield]

Teacake around here is a plain Bap, in Sheffield it's a Breadcake, others think of it as a bap with fruit added.