Home › P › Perch – Petty Singles

Perch – Petty Singles

Perch

The pole connecting the fore and hind part of a carriage.

Pickaxe team. -A team consisting of two wheelers and one leader. Also called a Unicorn team.

Point

To give the leaders an intimation by the reins that they are about to turn a corner.

Pole

The longitudinal timber that is set between the wheelers, to which they are attached by the pole-chains, or, in some kinds of vehicles, by pole-pieces.

Pole-head

The metal fitting to the front end of a pole which carries the pole-chains and polepieces.

Postilion

A driver who rides at the same time. If there be four horses he rides the near leader, and a driver on the box the wheelers; if a pair he drives both from the near horse.

Pull

Of the horse; to be always straining heavily on the reins whatever the pace.

Pannel

The lower bowel of a hawk.

Passage

The regular flight of any quarry to or from its feeding ground, and the annual migration.

Passage Hawk

A bird taken during the migrations.

Pelt

The dead body of the quarry.

Perch

The pole or rail on which hawks are kept within doors.

Petty Singles

The toes of a hawk.