Swingling block, 171. Swingling knives, 171, 312. Swingle-tree hurds, 172. Swingling tow, bonfires of, 177. Swing-sign. See Sign-board. Table, description of, 76. Table-board, 76, 81. Table-cloths, 77. Tallow, lack of, 34. Tambour work, 269. Tankards, original meaning, 83; of wood, 83-84; of silver, 99. Tapping-gauge, 112. Tape-loom, various names of, 225; described, 225-227. Tap-room, of Wayside Inn, 357-358. Tarboggin. See Chebobbin. Tar-making, 33. Taste of a dinner, 418. Tasters, 86-87. Taverns, establishment of, 356; titles for, 356; prices at, 357; values about, 357; names of rooms at, 357; in southern colonies, 360; in New Netherland, 361. Tea, substitutes for, 158-159; first sales of, 164; queer mode of cooking, 165. Teazels, 232. Teazeling, of cloth, 232. Temperature, of houses, 70-71; of churches, 374. Temple, of loom, 223. Tennessee, hand-weaving in, 249. Tenting, of cloth, 232. Terbobbin. See Chebobbin. Terrapin, 120. Thatch, for roofs, 15. Threshing, 313-314. Thumbing, in weaving, 218. Thumb-rings, 298. Tin, slight use of, 58. Tinder, 48. Tinder-box, 48. Tinder-mill, 50. Tinder-wheel, 49. Tithing-men, 372, 373. Titles, old-time, for women, 187. Toasting-forks, 60. Tobacco, as currency, 189; use forbidden near meeting-house, 379. Tomble. See Temple. Tongs, 236. Tow, garments of, 235-236. Town, unit in New England, 390; narrow feeling of, 391. Townsend, revolutionary story of, 203. Toys, of wood, 306. Trammels, 53. Transportation, on horseback, 176, 336 _et seq._; by wagons, 339 _et seq._ Trees, girdling of, 403; drive of, 404; under-cutting of, 404. Trenchers, description, 80; material, 82. Trivets, 60. Troughs, making of, 311. Trumbull, Jonathan, chaise of, 353. Trunks, 348. Trunk pedler, 300. Tumble. See Temple. Tummings, 195. Turkeys, wild, 109; size of, 109-110; price of, 110. Turkey wheat, 129. See Corn. Turkey-wings, 309. Turnips, 145. Turnpikes, 349-350. Turnspit dog, 65. Tusser, Thomas, quoted, 35, 168, 255, 321-322. Twifflers, 106. Van der Donck, quoted, 118, 119, 120. Van Tienhoven, quoted, 2. Veils, interference about, 285. Venison. See Deer. Vermont, candle-wood in, 32; broom-making in, 303. Victualling, name for tavern, 356. Violins, in meeting, 378.