Thanks very much to Carla, Beth, Roy, Liz and Eve for help with the "Clogged and Ploged" The clogged bit seems to have been resolved - i.e. the heavy wooden block but the ploged remains a bit in the air at the moment! Still any little help is gratefully received. Regards, Martyn

Good Morning Again - I've had a look around everything I have also made a couple of web searches - everything points to the word meaning "plugged" but I can't say this with ANY certainty! Could the letter 'o' be a version of letter 'u' or whatever? Kind Regards June & Roy http://www.btinternet.com/~roy.cox/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: mjcl [mailto:mjcl@btinternet.com] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 8:42 PM To: OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [OEL] Clogged and Ploged Thanks very much to Carla, Beth, Roy, Liz and Eve for help with the "Clogged and Ploged" The clogged bit seems to have been resolved - i.e. the heavy wooden block but the ploged remains a bit in the air at the moment! Still any little help is gratefully received. Regards, Martyn ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== OLD-ENGLISH Web Page http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/

-----Original Message----- From: mjcl [mailto:mjcl@btinternet.com] [The clogged bit seems to have been resolved - i.e. the heavy wooden block but the ploged remains a bit in the air at the moment! Still any little help is gratefully received.] Passing thought, but Sweet's Anglo Saxon Student Dictionary gives 'Plog' (long o) as a measure of land. Over the centuries might this have been locally adapted to mean being restricted to an (small) area of land? So, 'clogged and ploged' weighted with a wooden block in a small yard - presumably with a sign outside 'beware of ye dogge' :-) Geoffers Charlbury, Oxfordshire

In message <005101c40c31$0f430dc0$d6ee8451@pjb07>, Geoff Lowe <gpclowe@btinternet.com> writes >-----Original Message----- >From: mjcl [mailto:mjcl@btinternet.com] >[The clogged bit seems to have been resolved - i.e. the heavy wooden >block but the ploged remains a bit in the air at the moment! Still any >little help is gratefully received.] > >Passing thought, but Sweet's Anglo Saxon Student Dictionary gives >'Plog' (long o) as a measure of land. That is a 'plough' of land. And a ploughland is a fair sized piece (varying according to area) And I doubt they would park a tethered dog in the way of the ploughing. I incline to someone's idea of a savage dog with a hunk of wood like a 'bit' in its jaws, to stop it biting. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

Horses have been, and still are sometimes, tethered in this way, on a very long rope. This is so that they can eat the grass only in one particular spot. The heavy object is, now a days, generally a tractor tyre. This is moved around a large field to ensure that the horses don't overgraze one or two particular favoured sections. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eve McLaughlin" <eve@varneys.demon.co.uk> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:47 PM Subject: Re: [OEL] Clogged and Ploged > In message <005101c40c31$0f430dc0$d6ee8451@pjb07>, Geoff Lowe > <gpclowe@btinternet.com> writes > >-----Original Message----- > >From: mjcl [mailto:mjcl@btinternet.com] > >[The clogged bit seems to have been resolved - i.e. the heavy wooden > >block but the ploged remains a bit in the air at the moment! Still any > >little help is gratefully received.] > > > >Passing thought, but Sweet's Anglo Saxon Student Dictionary gives > >'Plog' (long o) as a measure of land. > > That is a 'plough' of land. And a ploughland is a fair sized piece > (varying according to area) And I doubt they would park a tethered dog > in the way of the ploughing. I incline to someone's idea of a savage > dog with a hunk of wood like a 'bit' in its jaws, to stop it biting. > > -- > Eve McLaughlin > > Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians > Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > OLD-ENGLISH Web Page > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > >