piece of common to his land called Handcocks, in digging into a low or heap of stones called Bole Low or Bone Low, upon the edge of Darwen Moor, above a place called Bamforth House, found three or four pots of earth, badly baked, and scored on the outside, full of human bones.' MS. of John Wilson of Broomhead Hall, printed by Bateman in Ten Years' Diggings, p. 253. In 1624 a bole hill, in or near Sheffield, was divided into seven parts. Nich. Morton held, inter alia, a seventh part. The remaining six parts were held by five tenants at a joint rental of £3. 8s. 6d. See DOWEL LUM.
BOLL or BOLL-PAWED, adj. left-handed.
- It is pronounced like doll.
BOLSOVER HILL, near Sheffield. O. M.
BOLSTER, sb. a solid lump of steel or some other metal between the tang and the blade of a knife. In the best knives it is forged as part of the blade.
- 'We'd none a yer wirligig polishin, nor Tom Dockin scales wi t' bousters cumin off.'—Bywater, 33.
BOLSTER-STONE, sb. a stone used by grinders in grinding the bolsters of knives.
BOLSTERSTONE, a village near Sheffield.
- 'Balderston alias Bolsturston' in 1453–90.—Eastwood's Ecclesfield, p. 68.
BONE-HUGGING, carrying corpses to the grave.
BONE-IDLE, adj. very idle.
BONK, v. to make bankrupt.
- It is used by boys playing at marbles. 'O've ommast bonked him,' i.e., won all his marbles.
BOO, sb. the bough of a tree.
BOOAN, the pronunciation of bone.
BOODER or BOOLDER, sb. a boulder-stone.
- 'An braik his heead agean a holder.'—Bywater, 23.
BOOK, sb. bulk. H.
BOON, sb. a day's ploughing given by one farmer to another. This is done when a farmer enters upon a new farm, or if he is in arrear with his work.
BOOSE-STAKE, sb. the wooden post to which cows are fastened in a cowhouse.
BOOTE LEE, a field in Bradfield.
- 'Ro: Hawckesworth for Boote Lee and Hawckesworth Inge £06:10:00.'
- Harrison. The word Boot is found as a surname in Sheffield. Perhaps the same as Butt.
