A glossary of mostly obsolete terms used in 16th and 17th century estate inventories
(definitions taken from Webster's Third New International Dictionary)

bassilony, bercelonay: meaning “barcelona,” a twilled silk handkerchief or scarf.
beatle/beetle: a ramming or beating implement.
box iron: a hollow flatiron that is heated by inserting an iron core (see "heater").
brake:  perhaps a cage, trap or snare, which is one of the archaic definitions for this word
broad axe/narrow axe:
broadcloth: a twilled and napped clothing fabric of wool or worsted with a smooth lustrous face and a close
dense texture.
bung(hole):  the hole in a cask or barrel for filling or emptying.

caliminco/calamanco: a glossy woollen fabric of satin weave with striped or checkered designs.
camblet/camlet: a lustrous, plain-wove wool; a fine wool or silk woven to imitate camel or angora (European),
 which would have been likely found in a New England household hasn’t been determined.  They may be very similar.
cask: a small barrel.
caster/castor hat: beaver-fur or fake beaver-fur hat.
colter: ploughshare; cutting element attached to a plough.
commonage/common land: landowners were usually granted rights to use land owned by the town, often for livestock grazing.
cord or rope: as associated with bedsteads: mattresses were supported by ropes in early bed construction.
cops: a kind of clasp used with a pin.
crane: a swinging, iron arm installed in the side of a fireplace from which pots were hung
creeper: a device with pointed parts that provides stability on slippery or sloped surfaces, usually worn on the feet.
crop: a stiff, short whip
croze: a tool used to cut a croze, which is the channel at the top and bottom of the inside of a stave in which
the top and bottom of the barrel are inserted.


dog iron: hardware with sharp ends angled or able to be angled mostly for coupling or securing logs; also a bar with an eye at one end to drive into logs.
draft: refers to using horses or oxen for labor and attached to equipment
drugged/drugget: a fabric of wool or wool mixed with linen or silk used for clothing.
duroy:  a coarse woollen cloth made in England.

farrow/fallow: a heifer not able to or not with calf.
fetters: shackles
firelock: a mechanism for lighting gunpowder
fire slice: shovel
flail: probably a utensil to separate chaff from grain
flock bed: a mattress stuffed with tufts of natural fiber
frow or “froe”: a cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade for splitting cask staves and shingles.

gambler: perhaps a corruption of gambrel or gamberel, which refer to a crooked stick used in suspending animals
for slaughtering.
gammon:  a ham or a flitch of cured bacon
gear: harness
great wheel: spinning wheel

hale hammer: probably a hammer with a claw.
hame: curved supports for the collar on both sides of a draft harness, usually projecting to free ends.
harrow: a rigid, iron rake with short, widely-spaced “teeth.”
hatchel/hetchel: hook
heater: an iron core inserted in a box iron.
hogshead: a large cask or barrel.
hollow ware: table ware.
hone: item on which a razor is sharpened.
huckaback: a textured weave in which yarns are floated on a plain ground to form small allover patterns; the fabric
made from the huckaback weave.
holland cloth: a sized cotton, with origins in the Netherlands

iron dog, iron goose: see dog iron; iron goose hasn't been specifically identified but may be similar.

joint stool: a stool with joined legs, involving mortice and tenons.

keeler: a broad, shallow tub
linning,linon, etc.: linen

meal: grain
meat tub: see powdering tub

piggin: a wooden pail with one handle, used as a scoop; a drinking vessel.  Check context.
pillion: a padded item used by women when riding horses.
powdering tub: a tub for salting meat
portmanteau: a leather traveling bag

reel: revolving device attached to a spinning wheel.
riddle: sieve
rope or cord: as associated with bedsteads: mattresses were supported by ropes in early bed construction.

sagathy: a fine twilled worsted fabric similar to serge used especially for clothing and curtains.
spit: large skewer supported at each end for cooking meat over a fire.
steelyard/stilyards: a portable balance for weighing, and able to be suspended.

tackle/tackling: similar to traces (which see), but a more general term.
tenor, tenure, etc.: the space of time between when a note or bill of credit is issued and when it reaches maturity.
tow: excess fibers from the treatment of raw materials to make cloth, itself used to make a rough cloth. Not to be confused with the misspelling of "two."
traces: straps (leather, chain) connecting the breast collar on a horse and the whiffletree of a cart.
trammel: an adjustable pothook.
tunnel: funnel; chimney (as used with a lamp).

whippletree: the whipple or whiffletree is part of draft equipment carried by horses or oxen by which chains or straps
can be attached,  usually to wagons
worsted: a dense, smooth, wool yarn.
wort: probably a reference to whort, short for whortleberry or hurtleberry, a European blueberry, also known as huckleberry.

what is it?

iron goose
flems
jane (coat or cloth)
rudder (probably not boat-connected, probably plow-connected)
carthop