yelven.
/jɛlv/ dialect.
A dung- or garden-fork.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > fork
forkc1000
graip1459
prong1492
crotch1539
evil1642
yelve1688
prong fork1765
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 430 Hi..hine ufan mid isenum geaflum ðydon.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 241/36 Forcelle, gæfle, dictae quod frumenta celluntur, i. commouentur.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. lxx[ii]. (Tollem. MS.) Hey..is houe, turnid and wende with pikes, ȝeuels [1495 forkees] and rakes.]
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 173/2 Yelf or Yelve, an Iron with three fork ends, by which Dung is taken from the Beast, and the house made clean.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 337/1 A Yelve Iron with two Ends.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 337/1 With the same Forke or Yelve, (or Evill, as some call it).
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 622 Yilve, a dung fork, an evil, as we more commonly call it.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Yelve..a garden-fork.
Derivatives
yelve v. to use a yelve.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (intransitive)] > dig
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digc1320
spit1393
fork1647
yelve1817
graft1823
spade1869
spud1889
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > dig > dig with fork
fork1647
prong1785
yelve1817
1817 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire (1818) 32 Yelve, to dig chiefly with the yelve.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Yelve, a potato fork... Yelve, v. to dig, chiefly with the yelve.
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