The Mouldwarp

Today I learned a) that a "want" is a mole -- it's an Old English word, but eventually it comes to be used only in Herefordshire, and that "mole" is perhaps short for "mouldwarp" which means something like "earth turner." I like the longer version. Now I can use it for the many moles which roam our farm. Incidentally, I also came across an Elizabethan statute that put a bounty on the poor things.