More old local words

I read with interest your article on Saturday. I would like to add the following – a pan shovel is what it is; 'pothery' is pronounced 'puthery'; and 'boosey' is a cow trough or manger.

Other commonly used words:-

• Nesh – Feeling the cold.
• Clemmed – Deprived of food or hungry.
• Yelv – A muck fork.
• Orts – Yesterday's leftovers. (We will have to eat the orts up)
• Blart – Cry (Like an infant)
• Muck hook – A tool with tines at right angle to stale to scrape the muck from the cart.
• Tundish – A funnel.

The photo is of my late father, Bert Jones of Ash Tree Farm, Kynsal Heath, taken in 1959 by Robin Hughes, a school teacher at Audlem senior school. He was probably one of the last farmers to use shire horses in the area.

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