yelmn.
/jɛlm/ Now dialect.
In Old English, a handful, bundle, sheaf, as of reaped corn; in modern dialect use, a bundle of straw laid straight for thatching (see yelm v.): = helm n.3 1.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > corn in sheaves > sheaf
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching > wheat-straw > in bundles or laid straight
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c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxxvii. 7 Eowre gilmas stodon ymbutan and abugon to minum sceafe.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 120 Genim grene mintan ænne gelm.
a1100 Aldhelm Glosses i. 5252 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 133/1 Manipulorum, gylma, wræda.
c1390 B.N.C. (Oxf.) Docts. C.2 56 We will make 200 yelmes.
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved x. 249 You must reap it.. and lay it upon little yelmes, or two or three handfuls together till it be dry.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Yelm, s. a portion of straw laid for that purpose [viz. thatching]; or as much as can be conveniently carried under the arm for any purpose.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 124 [The thatcher] is attended by a man to carry up the ‘yelms’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
yelmv.
/jɛlm/ dialect.
transitive and intransitive. To separate and select straw and lay it in order for thatching: = helm v.3
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof > thatch > lay straw straight for thatching
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yelm1890
1629 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 71 Pd to Gryces wife for yelming strawe for her house, xviijd.
1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 ii. 400 Cornes's new chaff cutter dispenses with the women yelming.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 124 Two or three women are busy yelming, i.e. separating the straw, selecting the largest, and laying it level and parallel, damping it with water, and preparing it for the yokes.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Yolm or Yalm..(Stow-on-Wold).
Derivatives
ˈyelmer n. one who lays out yelms.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > roofer > thatcher > involved in specific process
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1808 T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. County of Bedford 109 These [two men], together with the four yelmers and servers, cost about 20s. per day.
ˈyelming n. the action of the verb; also concrete = yelm n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > [noun] > roofing > thatching > processes involved in
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching > wheat-straw > in bundles or laid straight
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1581 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary (1888) Apr. 172 For a yellmyng of straw xijd.
1589 in H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age (1886) 203 A woman ‘yelming’ 14 days, 1s. 9d.
1601 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 67 Pd for strawe, vs. Pd for yelmyng, xd. Pd to the thatcher and fixer, iiijs. ijd.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 xviii. 79 Thatching per square, yelming and serving included, 2s. 6d.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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