1 gen 1638 anni - mouldwarp

Descrizione:

The mole or ‘earth thrower’. 1478 ‘land called <i> Molewerphill </i>’, Ackton (YRS61/118); 1617 <i> The mouldwarpe catcher I payd after jd each mowle (now before they breede) </i>, Brandsby (NYRO44/134); 1638 <i> that the said water be not also lost ... by mold warpe holes or choked by sedges </i>, Barwick in Elmet (Th17/11). The <i> moldwarp stafe </i> noted in Wawne in the East Riding in 1584 (OED) may have been an implement to break up ‘mould-hills’ rather than a stick used by the mole-catcher (OED). It is also recorded in the sense of moleskin: 1570 <i> one mold warppe hatt </i>, Hutton Conyers (SS26/229).

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