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116 THE DIALECT OF may play at my sov^s pigged.' * The lawyers play at beggar my neignoour ; the schoolmasters play at questions and commaDOs ; the farmers play at my sow^s pigga' — Poor Bohin's Almanack^ 1734. Sew {gl, seu), sowed. ' Au sew ma' whuts (oats) yesterday.' Shackle, or Shakle {gl, shaak*!), the wrist. As ' wrist ' comes from ' writhe,' and is applied to that .part of the arm which enables the hand to turn or twist, so it is not unlikely this word, as here used, comes from shake. Shade, pronunciation of shedy for cattle, &c. (gl. shaid). Shade, Sheide, or Shed, the opening between two lines of warp, through which the shuttle passes. In some localities shed is the parting of the hair ; watershed the parting of the waters. Shaffle, to retreat from one's word; to move lazily. 'He goes shaffling to his work.' Seems equal to shuffle, Shaffler, one who ' shalfles.' Shale, to turn out the feet in walking. See Hangman. ' There he comes, shalirC along.' Also when the woof is not driven up close enough it is said to shale. Shamed, ashamed. Shane {gh shain), shone, past tense of shine. Share, past tense of to shear. Sharpen, to cause to hasten, or hurry. A certain J. T. shot at a hare and missed her. The crack of the gun, however, made her run faster, and he exclaimed with some triumph, * Au*ve sharpened you, haven't Au ? ' Shatter topping, a poorly-looking child : probably one with the hair uncombed, or disordered. See Topping. Shanl (pronounced shocLl)^ shallow. Used also in Pembrokeshire. Shear, to cut corn. Ray has it. ' We went for fourteen year, eight on us, into t* low country a shenriW to a spot they call Sprodboro' ' (Sprotbrough : note the d for t * three mile ower Doncaster, Rother- ham rooad. It looks queer ' (don't it ?) ' to see steeple and bells in t' taan, an' f church a mile off in t* fields. Old men said it shiften itsen. There wur marks on t' steeple wheer f church had been built up to it three different tawms. It wor said at tawn there wur an old man could tell on it shiften.' It is somewhat remarkable that similar tales are told of many churches, and even of some chapels. It shows the different condition of this neighbourhood now, when, far from sending labourers into the low country, we have to depend for our harvesting mainly on the Irish labourers. It is probable, however, that the narrator went from the neighbourhood of Holmfirth, as he was brought up in that town. She&Y8, the pronunciation of sJieaves of cohl