Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities 1550-1820

A dictionary of nearly 4,000 terms found used in documents relating to trade and retail in early modern Britain. It represents part of a larger dataset produced by the Dictionary Project at the University of Wolverhampton, by whose kind permission it is reproduced here.

British History Online (no series). Originally published by University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2007.

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Table of Contents

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Gilt ginger - Ginseng
Glazing engine - Glove stick
Goatskin leather - Gorge
Grana germanica - Green flax
Green ginger - Green pomatum
Green sand - Green woad
Greened - Gruel strainer
Gudgeon - Gunpowder tea
H hinge - Hallcloth
Hamburg - Hammer handle
Hand hammer - Hangle
Happy change - Harrow pins
Hart - Havana snuff
Head - Head matter
Head nail - Headlake
Hearing horn - Hellebore
Hemp - Herse
Hiera cum agarico - Hl
Hobnail - Holliwortle
Hondschoote say - Horn leaves
Horse ball - Horsemans hammer
Hot waters - Housing
Huile antique - Hyssop water
Imperial tea - Implements of husbandry
India quilting - Iron screw
Isopie - Ivory leaves
Jack chain - Jersey reel
Jessamy - Jinny screw
Joans spinning - Juniper wood
Kelp ash - Kitchen stuff
Kneading trough - Kyle pin
Lac sulphuris - Large ginger
Lasch - Lazy back
Lead ash - Leathers
Leech - Lewkes hemp
Lichen cinerus terrestris - Link pan
Linne - Liverwort
Load - Longhee
Loom - Lungwort
Mace - Malting tub
Mamolwhiates - Marblers plate
Marcella - Mashing machine
Mask - Mazarinet
Meal - Metheglin
Mignonette - Mithridate water
Mocha - Mohair yarn
Molasses - Mouth water
Mugwort - Muscovy yarn
Mushroom - Myrobalan
Nail - Naples yellow
Narbonne sauce - Navy sauce
Neck band - Newcastle measure
Niccanee - Nitre lozenges
None so pretty - Nutmeg plums
Oat malt - Oeillet
Offal - Oil of wormwood
Oleum amygdalarum amarum - Oolong tea
Opening comb - Orange oil
Orange pea - Ostrich feather
Ouchain tea - Oxymel of squills
Packel head - Paper tapestry
Paragon - Pawpaw
Pear - Pekoe tea
Penide - Pewter ash
Philip and cheyney - Phota
Piccalilli - Pickling
Picture card - Pincushion
Pine - Pitchfork
Plague water - Plush
Pocket - Pompon
Pool - Potters lathe
Pounce box - Powdering tub
Precipitate - Prussian blue
Pulley box - Putting up stick
Quadrille box - Quoiler
Rabbeting plane - Ranter
Rape vinegar - Razed ginger
Ready made mustard - Red cyperus
Red deal - Red leather
Red mangrove bark - Red vinegar
Redding - Resin
Rhine - Rippon snaffle
Roche alum - Roset
Rosin - Royal plums
Ruff band - Rutherine
Saddle band - Sal volatile
Salad sauce - Salver
Samaritan water - Sauce boat
Sauce de bernis - Say lace
Scabious water - Screen table
Screw - Screwed work
Scripture - Scuttle
Sea card - Seville oranges
Shading engine - Sheave
Sheep - Sheppick
Shift - Shop bill
Shop book - Shuttlecock
Siberian apple - Sink trap
Skin - Skull
Slate - Slugging bowl