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Furness Dialect Dictionary

Horse power

  • reeans - reins
  • helter (n & vr) - halter
  • bariham - a horse collar; padding under the hams
  • træases - traces (harness)
  • yok - to yoke; to harness to a cart or plough
  • rîde - to ride (rîde, ræad, rûdden)
  • stærups - stirrups (stay ropes), loops to a saddle.
    (iron stirrups were only introduced about the beginning of the 19th century.)

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