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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years; D-G - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...pointing' used by builders; (6)-pollcabbage, a variety of cabbage; (7)-rhan, strata of coal; (8)-rods, rods for communicating motion from the engine horizontally; (9)-rod-shaft, a shaft with pumps drawn by horizontal rods worked by a distant engine or waterwheel; (10)-rope, salt-mining term: the rope used in drawing or winding rock-salt; (11)-scaup'd, emptyheaded; (12)-sheets, sheets of cast-iron upon which the tubs are run to be emptied or returned to the cage; (13)-simmer, a yeast pudding made with 'shortening'; (14)-soled, having no spring in the foot; (15)-stone, a measure of ironstone; (16)-work, work upon a horizontal vein. (1) w.Yks. A railway to Wadsley for't better conveyance a blackberries an flatbacks to Shevvild market, Bywater Sheffield Dial. (1839) 24, ed. 1877; Noa flatback knives aw'd handle, Senior Jerry S/itspring, 1. 5; Knives ground after they are put together, Sheffield Indep. (1874); w.Yks.2 A common knife with its back filed down after it is put together. (2) w.Yks. Slammak wer won, an Flat-dick wer anuther, Bywater Sheffield Dial. (1839) II. 14; w.Yks.2 (3) Chs.13 (4) w.Yks Ah tell'd him 'at he hedn't t'sense 'at he wur born wi'--a big flathead, 50. Brks. (W.H.E.) (5) Ken. In flat-pointing the mortar is smeared up against, and on to, the edges of each brick (D.W.L.). (6) Cor. Its recurrent crop of potatoes and flatpoll cabbages, 'Q.' Three Ships(i8go) iv; A 'flat-poll cabbage' is a close-headed, large, white cabbage. It is often eaten in broth and sometimes brought to table like ordinary cabbage. It is, however, gen. used for cattle, and is sometimes called 'Cornish white ' (M.A.C.). (7) Stf.1 (8) Cor. English Mining Terms (1830). (9) Cor. Thomas Randigal Rhymes (1895) Gl. (10) Chs.1 They are flat and about six inches wide. (11) n.Yk...
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