Head·word [ˈhedˌwɜː(ɹ)d] n. · @headword
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@GPHemsley @grvsmth Here is their contact form: public.oed.com/contribute-to-t

They also used to use the hashtag on the other site, but I don't know if they have a presence on Mastodon.

#oedantedatings

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 949:

4-year antedating of wrapping-gown ‘night-gown’ (in from 1709)

on Satterday Sept. 8 last Mrs. Bargrave being in her little house alone She heard a little kind of a Rustle (It had just struck 12 at noon) & looking towards ye Door in came Mrs. V. w[i]th a Wrapping Gown & held it together w[i]th her hand to across, an handsome suit of Night Cloaths & hood & Silk handk. tyed about her neck. (1705)

‘The apparition of Mrs Veal’, Archaeologia Cantiana 73, p. 155

#oedantedatings #OED

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 948:

48-year antedating of orris work ‘embroidery of gold or silver lace’ (in from c.1710)

In the best Chamber: Item ffive peeces of Tapestry, hanginges, a foote Carpet of Turky woorke, nyne Chaires of Orresse worke, one high bedsted ... (1662)

Robert H. Goodsall, ‘The Astleys of [Part 2]’, Archaeologia Cantiana 73 (1960), pp. 125–41, at p. 136

#oedantedatings #OED #Maidstone

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 947:

130-year antedating of shire-house ‘county hall, building where county assizes are held’ (in from 1759)

One parcell of Woodland adjoyninge unto Pickenden Hoath neare the Shire house containing 2 acres three roods 2 daie work and 3 perches. In the parishes of Boxley and Maidstone in the occupation of John Warren. (1629)

Robert H. Goodsall, ‘The Astleys of [Part 1]’, Archaeologia Cantiana 72 (1959), pp. 1–17, at p. 16

#oedantedatings #OED #Maidstone

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 946:

256-year antedating of soaper ‘soap-boiler, soapmaker’ (in from c.1225)

æt Sapere tún (969 [11th-century copy])
sapertune (1045 [18th-century copy])
[Saberton in Beckford]

Place-Names of 2:43–4 (Sawyer 1324 and 1397)

#oedantedatings #OED #EPNS #gloucestershire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 945:

9-year antedating of eke (n.1 sense 2a) ‘tag to a bellrope’ (in from 1549)

Item payde to Harry Berrege for iii payere of ekes to the belles – xiid. (c.1540) [Baldock]

Anthony Palmer, Tudor Churchwardens’ Accounts, Record Publications vol. 1 (Hertfordshire Record Society, 1985), p. 56

I'm posting this without a picture, cos I have no idea where such a tag went, or what it looked like, or what its purpose was!

#oedantedatings #OED #hertfordshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 944:

18-year antedating of jail money ‘levy payable to the high constable of a hundred for the maintenance of a jail’ (in from 1600)

Item to Nevell for gaole money the 29 of June [1580] – iis. iid. (1582)

Item payde for the gayle monye – iis. iid. (1583)

Item for the jayle monye layde oute – vis. vid. (1584) [Ashwell]

Anthony Palmer, Tudor Churchwardens’ Accounts, Record Publications vol. 1 (Hertfordshire Record Society, 1985), pp. 19, 21, 22

#oedantedatings #OED #hertfordshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 943:

27-year antedating of cohabitor (in from 1628)

Item for presentinge of Edward Weaver and his cohabiter –iiijd. (1601)

Anthony Palmer, Tudor Churchwardens’ Accounts, Record Publications vol. 1 (Hertfordshire Record Society, 1985), p. 46

#oedantedatings #OED #hertfordshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Revisiting daily no. 876, now taking font-cloth back 13 years:

Item payde for surplyces and for the funte clothe and for makyng of the surplyces – xiiis. iiiid. (c.1540) [Baldock]

Anthony Palmer, Tudor Churchwardens’ Accounts, Record Publications vol. 1 (Hertfordshire Record Society, 1985), p. 55

#oedantedatings #hertfordshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 942:

248-year antedating of homecroft ‘infield’ (in from a.1500)

Homcrofte (1252) [Stanwell]
Place-Names of , p. 208

Homcroft (13th)
EPNS Place-Names of , p. 428

Homcroft (1304) [Home Croft in Alkington]
EPNS Place-Names of 2, p. 210

Homcrofte (1347) [Meesden]
EPNS Place-Names of , p. 300

#oedantedatings #OED #EPNS #Middlesex #Wiltshire #gloucestershire #hertfordshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 941:

6-year antedating of keeper (n. sense 6a) ‘clasp, catch’ (in from 1578)

Item paid for nayles for churche gate latches and kepers – vid. (1572) [Ashwell]

Anthony Palmer, Tudor Churchwardens’ Accounts, Record Publications vol. 1 (Hertfordshire Record Society, 1985), p. 14

#oedantedatings #OED #hertfordshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 940:

139-year antedating of grass-croft (in from 1349)

Grascrofte (c.1210) [Steeple Barton]
Place-Names of , p. 250

Grascroft (1224)
EPNS Place-Names of , p. 427

Grascroft (13th c.)
EPNS Place-Names of , p. 389

le Grescroftsykes (1310) [Barlow]
EPNS Place-Names of , p. 205

Grascroft (1323) [Bourton near Banbury]
EPNS Place-Names of Oxfordshire, p. 415

#oedantedatings #OED #EPNS #oxfordshire #Wiltshire #worcestershire #derbyshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 939:

343-year antedating of sextry barn ‘tithe-barn belonging to a sacristan’ (in from 1843)

Sextry barn (15th c.) [Ely]

Place-Names of , p. 313

#oedantedatings #OED #EPNS #cambridgeshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 939:

343-year antedating of sextry barn ‘tithe-barn belonging to a sacristan’ (in from 1843)

Sextry barn (15th c.) [Ely]

Place-Names of , p. 313

#oedantedatings #OED #EPNS #cambridgeshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 938:

13-year antedating of bleach-croft ‘enclosure used for bleaching cloth’ (in from 1852)

Bleach Croft (1839) [Ardsley]

Place-Names of the West Riding of 1, p. 291

#oedantedatings #OED #EPNS #Yorkshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 938:

13-year antedating of bleach-croft ‘enclosure used for bleaching cloth’ (in from 1852)

Bleach Croft (1839) [Ardsley]

Place-Names of the West Riding of 1, p. 291

#oedantedatings #OED #EPNS #Yorkshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 937:

245-year antedating of nameless (sense 4b) ‘that has not yet been given a name’ (in OED from c.1625)

Namelesfurlong (1380)

Place-Names of , p. 199

#oedantedatings #EPNS #Middlesex

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 936:

54-year antedating of gravel-pit (in from c.1440)

Gravelpette (1386)
Place-Names of , p. 258

le Grauelpettys (1430) [Harlow, ]
Addendum in EPNS Place-Names of the East Riding of Yorkshire, p. lvi

#oedantedatings #OED #EPNS #hertfordshire #Essex

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 935:

187-year antedating of hay-barn (in from 1577)

Hayberne (1390) [Haybarn Farm in Aston]

Place-Names of , p. 34

#oedantedatings #OED #EPNS #warwickshire

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Paul Carbuncle · @paulcarbuncle
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Daily no. 934:

571-year antedating of broom-croft (in from 1871)

le Bromcroft (13th), Bromcroft (1327) [Bradfield]
Place-Names of the West Riding of 1, pp. 232 & 242

Bromecroft (1322) [Yate]
EPNS Place-Names of 3, p. 46

Bromcroft (1307–27) [Codicote]
EPNS Place-Names of Hertfordshire, p. 282

Bromcroft (1362) [Fixby]
EPNS Place-Names of West Riding of Yorkshire 3, p. 37

Bromcroft (1375) [Aston]
EPNS Place-Names of , p. 341

#oedantedatings #OED #EPNS #Yorkshire #gloucestershire #warwickshire

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