Thomas Houghton, Rara Avis in Terris or the Complete Miner (1681)
Date
1681
Author
Lexicon title
An Explanation of the Miners Terms of Art Used in this Book
Book title
Rara Avis in Terris: Or The Compleat Miner, In two Books; The first containing, The Liberties, Laws and Customs
of the Lead-Mines, within the Wapentake of Wirksworth in Derbyshire; in fifty nine articles, being all that ever was made, The second teacheth.
The Art of dialling and levelling Grooves; a thing greatly desired by all Miners; being a subject never written on before by any. With an Explanation of the Miners Terms of Art used in this Book.
Publication place
London
Publisher
William Cooper
Transcription source
EEBO (Cambridge University Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
mining
Extent
f1r-f5r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Pee is where two Veins meet and cross one another thus + the place where they meet is called the Pee. (f3r)
sample: Pee is where two Veins meet and cross one another thus + the place where they meet is called the Pee. (f3r)
Wing
H 2934
Catalog
Kennedy 8625
Modern editions
Publ. of English Dialect Society (1874), Series B: Reprinted Glossaries, No. IX (Vol. II, part 2, pp. 42-22)
