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reeat weltil - sheaves of corn in field with ends opened, exposed to wind

arable crops wheeat - wheat corn or haver - oats bigg - six rowed barley   harvesting, threshing & separating the grain harrest - harvest fuddher - fodder; to feed.   The one who feeds a threshing machine fodthers; the one who forks sheaves or hay onto his cart fodthers; hence fother, or fudther, a load scree - to clear grain from husks, dirt and rubbish ree - to winnow with seive or riddle ree-roo - to give grain an eddying motion in a riddle hummel - to remove awns from barley by stamping angs - awns, the beard of barley shreedins - outer covering of barley separated from the grain creet barley - barley with the husk removed ready for creeing skeel - to strip the outer covering from oats, so . . skillins - uncrushed oats with outer covering removed meeal seeds - inner covering or husks of oats used as fuel etc meeal - oatmeal hinderends - withered and refuse grain winnowed from the rest   (food for fowls etc) sleck - blighted grain (infected with 'smut') caff - chaff

straw bottle - to tie in bundles.  Wheat & barley straw is bottled; oat straw is lapped   beating flax swing-el - to beat flax or hemp in order to separate the fibres swingelan - beating flax or hemp heckle - to break up the stems of hemp or flax; to dress hemp                swingelan

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