jan 1, 1531 - buddle

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As a noun this is a shallow vat in which ore is washed (OED). The term is first recorded in an Act of 1531-2. The verb means to wash ore using such a buddle or, as described by Raistrick and Jennings, by building ‘a channel of wood a foot or two wide and a few feet long, slightly sloped with a stream of water running down it’: 1642 <i>for their use of budling, or washing their ure</i>, Grassington (R&J73,112). The reference to <i>budlebords </i>in the same context may point to that method.

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