Index to Volume Seven - The People - Dock Family Trees - Glossary . . .

Hogshead - A large wooden barrel or cask used to store and transport primarily wines (52½ Imperial gallons), beers and ales (54 Imperial gallons). Also used for solids including tobacco, etc.

Kinderkin - Similar to hogshead but with a capacity of 16 or 18 Imperial gallons.

Dozen - A quantity of twelve items. Abreviated to doz..

Cinders (in relation to iron) - A scoria of iron found in the 'Scruff'; the floating surface impurities from the iron making process usually the iron made at eighteenth century Bloomaries or Blommery Forges. The cinders element was known to contain of high percentage of iron and was often recycled into pig iron whereas the vitreous, glass-like element found its way into the production of green glass.

Esparto - Esparto, halfah grass, or esparto grass, is a fiber produced from two species of perennial grasses of north Africa and southern Europe. It is used for crafts, such as cords, basketry, and espadrilles. [043]

Diss - An evergreen grass from the Mediterranean area with the botanical name of Ampelodesmos mauritanica. This perennial grass forms dense clumps of linear leaves which are grey-green above and dark green below.

Greaves - The unmeltable residue left after animal fat has been rendered. An alternative process cooks slaughterhouse offal to produce a thick, lumpy "stew" which is then sold to the pet food industry to be used principally as tinned cat and dog foods. [043]

Guano - The accumulated excrement of seabirds, seals, or cave-dwelling bats. As a manure, guano is a highly effective fertilizer due to its exceptionally high content of nitrogen, phosphate and potassium: nutrients essential for plant growth. [043]

Oak Knees - Applied to ship-building it is a naturally occurring curved section of the oak (or other species) tree which is utilised to brace and connect timbers. Typically it is right-angled or vee-shaped and jointed using bolts or is pegged using foxtail wedges.