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

Litharge - Otherwise known as lead monoxide being a poisonous solid, yellow or red in colour, which is insoluble in water and is odourless. It was generally used in the manufacture of lead glass, printing inks, lead-acid accumulators (batteries), and as a pigment in glass, paint and ceramics. [400] - may also be of gold or silver. [429]

Superphosphate of Lime - A fertiliser obtained from bone dust (or rock phosphate) treated with sulphuric acid.

Junk - Old or inferior rope. - (18th century definition) [400]

Patent Manure - I'm not too sure about this one but the National Archives have a reference to the Sewage Deodorising and Patent Manure Company which was registered between 1844 and 1856, and either dissolved before 1856 or re-registered by 1860. [142]

Moss Litter - Peat Moss used for bedding for animals said to be especially good for horses in comparison to wood shavings or straw.

Muntz Metal - An alloy of brass consisting of 60% copper and 40% zinc with a typical use for cast products and as rolled plates. George F. Muntz (1794–1857) was an English metal worker from Birmingham who moved production to 'Copperopolis' or Swansea in 1837 at his Muntz’s Patent Metal Company’. The metal was added as sheathing to the tea clipper 'Cutty Sark' to enable her to make record times on the voyages from China to the UK in the infamous tea races.

Millpuff - A kind of flock used for stuffing mattresses, etc. [400]

Oakum - Loose fibres, tarred and used for caulking (making watertight) the gaps between boards of wooden ships. It was often obtained from old rope but also from virgin jute or hemp.

Oil Cake - The residual solid after extracting the liquid in a press - the cake is usually used as animal feed.

Ox Bow - A U-shped collar of an ox-yoke. - A yoke is a heavy wooden frame or oxbow used to harness a team of oxen. [400]