Perysshynge, _s._ piercing, 62/17. See the note.
Peynes, _s._ pains; a disease in a horse’s fetlocks, 111/1.
Pikstaues, _s. pl._ pikestaves (but here used, apparently, of a part of a cart, possibly the supports of the shafts), 5/23.
Plasshed, _pp._ plashed, 127/19. See below.
Plasshynge, _s._ plashing, 124/2. To plash is to lower and close up a broad-spread hedge, by partially cutting off the branches, and entwining them with those left upright.
Pleched, _pp._ pleached, plashed, 127/22. _See_ Plasshynge.
Ploughe-beame, _s._ plough-beam, 3/2, 9. See note to 3/1.
Ploughe-eare, _s._ plough-ear, 3/5, 42; 4/34. See note to 3/1.
Ploughe-fote, _s._ plough-foot, 3/5, 38. See note to 3/1.
Plough-geare, _s._ instruments requisite for ploughing, 5/45.
Ploughehedde, _s._ the same as the share-beam, 2/10. _See_ Sharbeame.
Ploughe-mal, _s._ plough-hammer or mallet, 3/6. See note to 3/1.
Ploughe-shethe, _s._ plough-sheath, 2/3. See note to 3/1.
Plough-stylte, _s._ the right-hand handle of a plough, 3/21. See note to 3/1.
Ploughetayle, _s._ the left-hand and longer handle of the plough, 2/23; 3/15, 19.
Ploughe-yren, _s._ plough-iron, iron part of a plough (share and coulter), 5/2; ploughe-yrons, _pl._ 2/19.
Pockes, _s. pl._ pocks, pustules, a disease in sheep, 49/1.
Polerd wheat, _s._ coarse wheat, pollard wheat, 34/23. So called because it has _no awns_: to _poll_ is to clip, etc. _See_ Pollard.
Pollard, short-horned, said of a ram, _note_ to 37/6. _See_ Polerd.
Pondre, _v._ to ponder, consider, 153/28.
Potte, _s._ pot; good for the potte, good for boiling, 146/35.
Pottell, _s._ a pottle, two quarts, 44/8.
Practyue, _s._ practice, 4/29; practiue, 141/21.
Processe, _s._ relation, story, tale, 2/29, 120/13; in processe, in course of time, 127/8.
Proferre, _v._ to put into, insert, 138/13.
Profytablest, _adj. superl._ most profitable, 37/5.
Prycke-eared, _pp._ with sharply pointed erect ears, 77/1. Cf. the phr. ‘to _prick up_ one’s ears.’
Pursy, _s._ short-windedness (in a horse), 84/1. See _Pursy_ in my Etym. Dict.
Pyl, _v._ to peel, 134/23; _imp. s._ 134/11. _See_ Pill.
Pyn-awgur, _s._ a boring-tool for making holes for pins or pegs, probably a gimlet as distinguished from a _rest-awgur_, 5/32.
Pynder, _s._ the petty officer of a manor, whose duty it was to impound all strange cattle straying on the common, 148/25, 39.