jan 1, 1642 - stower

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A piece of wood such as a pole or stake, but with a wide range of applications. 1380 ‘John Pye is charged … for cutting greenery and for one wagon-load of <i>Ellerstowrs</i>’, Yeadon (SW63); 1409 <i>Et pro stowres et j syff ixd</i>, Beverley (ERAS4/36); 1463 <i>12 duss’ fyrdelys 4C smalle burdes 4C bowstaffes 4C smalle stowres</i>, Hull (YRS144/58); 1575 <i>no person … shall … pytch any stowres, powles or staves in any street</i>, Beverley (YRS84/2). The upright poles on carts were called ‘wain stowers’: 1600 <i>not one Ashe fit for a waynestower</i>, Settrington (YRS126/88); 1617 <i>yonge ashes to sell, oxe bowes, wayne stowers</i>, Brandsby (NYRO44/148); 1642 <i>see that the … waines be sownde and … putte in stowers wheare any are wantinge</i>, Elmswell (DW38). It is considered to have an Old Norse origin but may have been influenced by estower as a form of estover: 1619-21 <i>for estowers and pawnage in the Princes woodes</i>, Pickering (NRR1/21).

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