jan 1, 1577 - dish-benk

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A ‘bench’ on which to place dishes, a side-board, quite often linked with ‘cupboard’. 1535 <i>a cobbord with a dysbynk</i>, Mappleton (SS26/12); 1543 <i>I witto Edwarde my sonne my dishbenke</i>, Barkston (Th19/92); 1554 <i>a dyshbynk</i>, South Cave (Kaner47); 1577 <i>one cupboorde one dysshebynke and one counter 5s</i>, Abbotside (YRS130/11); 1594 <i>one cubborde, one dyshebynke</i>, Thornthwaite (SS104/199); 1658 <i>1 diske binke & dishes on it</i>, Selby (YRS47/16).

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