Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
Sherers, _s. pl._ reapers, 27/3; sheep-shearers, 52/1.
Sheres, _s. pl._ shears, 41/12.
Shertes, _s. pl._ shirts, 146/45.
Sheryffe, _s._ sheriff, 148/40.
Shete, _s._ a sheet, 122/15.
Shethe, _s._ plough-sheath, 2/23, 3/29. See note to 3/1, and see
Ploughe-shethe.
Sheydes, _s. pl._ partings, 44/17. _See_ Shede.
Shifted, _pp._ moved, 141/43.
Shoke, _v._ to place sheaves together in rows, to shock, 31/2.
Sholynges, _s. pl._ shovellings, i.e. road-scrapings, 17/30. See
_note_ to 16/29-35.
Shorte-pasturned, _pp._ having a short pastern, 75/2.
Shote, _s._ shot, 151/20.
Shotes, _s. pl._ (put for _Slotes_), 15/8. _See_ Slote.
Shotte, _pp._ shot up, grown, 21/19.
Shouell, _s._ shovel, 5/33, 17/14.
Shough, _s._ shock, rough hair on a horse’s foot, 114/3.
Showed, _pp._ shoed, 142/6.
Showynge, _s._ shoeing, 109/4.
Shoyng-horne, _s._ shoe-horn, 142/1.
Shrede, _v._ to cut off the smaller branches of a tree, 132/1; shred,
_pp._ having the smaller branches cut off, 133/2.
Shuld, _pt. s._ would, 128/34.
Sicle, _s._ sickle, 27/14; syckle, 28/4.
Sith, _s._ scythe, 23/15.
Skal, _s._ a scall or scab, 94/4.
Skeyggs, _s. pl._ rough oats, _note_ to 14/15. Doubtless so called
from the long awns; cf. Icel. _skegg_, a beard, Dan. _skjæg_,
a beard, barb, awn. Cf. E. _shaggy_.
Skorfe, _s._ scurf, 116/2.
Skyppes, _s. pl._ baskets, 166/21. Usually _skeps_.
Slake, _v._ to extinguish, 169/14.
Slaue, _v._ to bend down, 133/15 (where it seems to mean tear by
breaking down); to bend, 133/6; to slant, 127/15, 32. Cf.
“I _slyue_ downe, I fall downe sodaynly;” Palsgrave. See below.
Slauynges, _s. pl._ slips, scions, 130/5. Cf. _slive_, a slip,
_slive_, to slice, _slift_, a scion of a plant for propagation,
not cut, but pulled off at a joint; Wright. “I _slyue_ a floure
from his braunche or stalke;” Palsgrave.
Slecketh, _pr. s._ extinguishes, 169/13. _See_ Slake.
Sleues, _s. pl._ sleeves (but in what sense is uncertain), 5/6.
Slote, _s._ rod, thin piece of wood, cross-piece of a harrow, 15/11.
A _slot_ or _slote_ is, properly, a thin flat bar. See Ray,
Gloss. B. 15. See below.
Slote, _s._ slit? (apparently the same as _slyt_ in 3/17), 4/15. The
usual sense of _slot_ is ‘bar.’ See above.
Sloted, _pp._ furnished with _slotes_ or bars, 15/24.
Slote-wedges, _s. pl._ wedges fixed in the _slote_, 4/14. See Slote
(= slit?).
Small, _s._ small part, calf of the leg, 15/8.
Smockes, _s. pl._ women’s shifts, 146/45.
Socle, _imp. s._ suckle, cause to suckle, 38/4; give suck, 146/10.
Socket, _s._ socket, fitted end, 3/47; means of fastening on, 21/8.
Sodeinly, _adv._ suddenly, 2/24.
Soke, _v._ suck, 2/13.
Somer, _s._ rail or support, 5/22. Cf. _Bressomer_; also “_somers_,
the rails of a cart;” Wright. See _sumpter_ in my Etym. Dict.
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