> In a 1614 Oxfordshire will I think I found a bequest of a poudaring > troue. Poudaring I'm sure of, troue I'm not. Would I likely be right > to think that troue could be a 17th-century attempt at trough? And > what was a powdering trough used for anyway? Remember that U and V are forms of the same letter, with V at the beginning of words (vnto, vnion) and U in the middle (giuen, doue, liuing) So yes, troue, trove is trough. Ow jew spellun then? And chunks of meat to be kep[t for a few weeks into winter needed salting down before hanging from the rafters to cut and come again.