talshiden.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
A shide or piece of wood of prescribed length, either round, or split in two or four, according to thickness, for cutting into billets for firewood. Talshides were classed from No. 1 to No. 7 according to girth: No. 1 contained round timber of 16 in. girth, half-round of 19 in., quarter-cleft of 18½; No. 2 contained round 23 in., half-round 27 in., quarter-cleft 26 in.; No. 3 round 28 in., half-round 33 in., quarter-cleft 32 in.; No. 4 round 33 in., half-round 39 in., quarter-cleft 38 in., and so on: see Act 43 Eliz. c. 14.
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1444–5 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 391 In prostracione, fissura, et factura CCC di Talschides apud Langley.
1447–8 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 388 Pro prostracione, sicatione, fissura, et factura, xiiijm Talshides apud Snowdenhill.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxiiij v/2 Item euery taleshide of one be in gretnes in the middis xx. ynches of assise.
1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 162 A Duke or a Dutchess for their Bouche of Court..[was to have] one torch, one pricket, two sises, one pound of white lights, ten talshides, eight faggotts.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 99 Every Taleshide to be four foot long, besides the carf; and if nam'd of one, marked one, to contain 16 inches circumference, within a foot of the middle.
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