10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DAYTALE»
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Mary daughter of John Scruton, Daytale Man, Buried June 25th. John son of John
Scruton, Daytale Man, Buried July 7th. 1753. Robert son of William Kettlewell,
Husbandman, Bap: Apl. 26th. Robert Taylor Esq. & Doctor of Physick, Buried July
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Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Parish Register Section, 1956
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Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English, containing ...
Days-math, a. (11 An acre, the quantity mown by a man in one day. West. (2) Any
small portion of ground. Daytale, i. Day time. Daytaleman, a. A chance-labourer,
one employed only from day to day. Daytale-pace, a slow pace. Day-work, a.
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Men at Work: Labourers and Building Craftsmen in the Towns ...
But bricklayers and carpenters of the country usually have wrought and work from
sun rising til sun setting their daytale work and sometimes longer.47 At Hull in the
later seventeenth century the working day was relatively short: workmen who ...
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Report[s: With Appendices]
The other work of the farm is done by daytale men (that is, day labourers), who
live in the village and walk perhaps a mile or so to their work. His present hind left
his last place because he wanted to live in the village for the sake of his children
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Great Britain. Commmission on Employment of Children, Young Persons and Women in Agriculture (1867), Hugh Seymour Tremenheere, Edward Carleton Tufnell, 1868
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Publications of the Folk-lore Society
... when the last sheaf had crowned the last stack in their master's hagyard, and,
after calling the " harvest home," the daytale- men and household servants were
enjoying themselves over massive pewter quarts foaming over with strong beer, ...
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Abbeys, Castles, and Ancient Halls of England and Wales: ...
'Twas on a beautifully clear evening in August, when after calling the harvest-
home, the daytale men and household servants were enjoying themselves over
strong beer, that the evening's conversation at last A Myth of Midridge. 247 A
Myth of ...
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A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of ...
Daytle [dae'tl], N. and E, adj. by the day; working by the daytale. Also, N.,
laborious; as, 'It's daytle waak (work) this is.' Daytle-chaps, N. and E., sb. pl. day-
labourers. Dazed [dae'zd], pp. bewildered; stupefied ; lost in amazement; dazzled
, ...
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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words: Obsolete ...
West. Generally, any small portion of ground. lts size seems to have been
variously estimated. DAYTALEMAN. A day-man,q. v. A chancelnbourcr, one not
regularly employed. Daytale-pace, a slow pace. A day tale, in the day time. DAY-
WORK.
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1865
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Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries".: Folk lore
... when the last sheaf had crowned the last stack in their master's hagyard, and
after calling the “harvest home,” the daytale-men and household servants were
en'joying themselves over massive pewter quarts foaming over with strong beer,
...
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The Denham Tracts: A Collection of Folklore : Reprinted from ...
... when the last sheaf had crowned the last stack in their master's hagyard, and,
after calling the " harvest home," the daytale- men and household servants were
enjoying themselves over massive pewter quarts foaming over with strong beer, ...
Michael Aislabie Denham, 1892
