Continuing the list of olde archaic words for your enjoyment and enlightenment:
Clock-faces - A favorite name for the small circles of ice formed upon a pool when it begins to freeze over.
Bundling - Bundling used to be a widely diffused Welsh custom before marriage. (It was also practiced in the American south up through the 1800's and perhaps longer in some areas) The betrothed or engaged pair went to bed or more frequently lay together, in their clothes . . . Even among families of good position it is tacitly recognized and tolerated, and it was at the outset the product of the clothed state, where touch had to play the part of sight in the unclothed. It is a rigorous condition that no liberty be taken with the dress. Prudent mothers gave daughters approaching bundling age a "courting-stocking" completely covering the girl's body from the waist downwards, with room for both legs within it; such stockings . . . were often heirlooms.
Bundling boards - A wooden board the length of the bed and 8-12 inches in width that was placed upright in the bed between the bundling couple.
Drink-meat - Ale boiled, thickened with oatmeal, and spiced.
Town-bull - It was formerly the custom to keep a bull for the common use of the town.
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