regional disalect as spake by Robin Hood

Addle To earn
Agate At work, occupied with
Akkle To dress or tidy up
Avverbreead Haverbread made from oatmeal when wheat flour was expensive

Baht Without
Balk A large beam or beam of scales for weighing
Bat Stroke; 'He's not struck a bat' - he's not done a stroke
Betty A guard placed in front of the fire to keep the ashes in
Billy A machine for slubbing cardings
Botch To do a job carelessly
Brass Money
Brokken Broken
Brussen Burst (applied to sacks); lucky (applied to a person)
Buffet A small stool
Bunt A bundle (of cloth)
Burl Pick small pieces of hair etc. from cloth
Buzzer Mill whistle or siren

Caird A card or comb for dressing wool
Cal Gossip
Capt Suprised
Causey A pavement, footpath
Chunter Grumble
Clammed Cold; hungry, kept short of food
Clicks Hooks for moving packs of wool
Cop Yarn spun on a spindle
Cropper Cloth dresser
Crozzil Hard cinder found in furnaces
Cut Canal

Din Noise
Do A commotion, a lively time
Dollypawed Left-handed
Donned up Dressed in ones best clothes
Druft A drying wind

Fadge Bundles of cloth or wool in a pack sheet skewered with wooden pack pricks
Fast Puzzled
Fearnaught 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
Fettler A machine cleaner
Flit Move
Fold A collection of houses standing in a yard
Frame 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

Gainest 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

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
Jip Pain, punishment
Joss The master

Knock on To get on with a job
Koil Oil Coal place
Kop Catch

Lake To be idle
Leck or weet To wet as in wetting the cloth with stale urine to bring out the grease
Leet To meet with
Lig Lie down
Lithairse Dye house; lister=dyer
Lumb Chimney
Lurry A wagon

Maister Master
Middlin Moderate
Miln A mill
Milner Originally the one who put the cloth in the milling stocks
Mongi Idle
Mule Spinning machine
Mullock Mess or muddle
Muff Make a small noise
Mungo Old rags and woollen material, shredded to be rewoven

Nogs L-shaped pieces of iron placed on the beam to hold the warp
Noils Short fibres of wool removed by the combing machine
Noit Business
Nope To hit, especially on the head

Okker To hesitate
Olis Always
Oss To stir; move, to begin
Owt Anything

Paand Pound (£1)
Perch To examine cloth by putting it over a rod, pole or perch, in order to remove burls or motes
Pick To throw the shuttle
Piggin A lading can or small vessel
Poise Kick
Porty woof Forty threads
Pund Pound (lb) weight

Rordin A Riding; a third part
Rovin In wool spinning where the filaments are drawn out to a greater length
Rush A festival

Saig Saw
Saigins Sawdust
Sam To pick up or gather
Scribble To give the first rough carding to wool or cotton
Shauve Slice (of bread)
Shiftless Helpless
Shivvins Small bits of wood in the wool or bits off the yarn (shavings)
Shoddy Waste material thrown off by machines, used for low priced cloth
Skep or skip A willow basket
Skitter To hurry one's work
Sliver A long carding of wool
Slub To draw out cardings into greater length
Sluffed Disappointed, distressed
Stamperds The four posts supporting a loom
Stocks Part of milling machinery
Strinkle To scatter or sprinkle
Sumpoil Place to which surplus liquids flow

Taew To strive
Tail goit Channel from the mill
Tenter Frame for stretching cloth to dry on tenter hooks
Thoil To bear; endure; not begrudge; spare
Throng Busy
Thrum The ends 0f the warp cut off from a piece of cloth
Thump Local name for a feast or fair
Tig To touch (as in childrens games)
Toit To keep in toil; to keep in good order
Tuner One who tunes or sets the looms for weaving

Ummer Local word for Hell

Wanty A girth for a pack horse
Wappy Quick; a short cut
Wassock Daft
Wind To wind bobbins
Wim wam An impulse or fancy
Winteredge Winter hedge; clothes horse
Wit Commonsense
Worsit Worsted
Wom Home

Yark To jerk; pull or snatch