BOOTH. It appears to mean something more than a rude building in a forest. 'William Bamforth the younger and the widctow Greaves for Fullwood Booth £12:00: 0.'—Harrison. 'The booth woods.'—Ibid. 'Thurston Morton, one of the keepers of Fullwood Booth.'—Ibid. 'A Peice of pasture called Fulwood Booth lying between Rivelin firth north and abutting on Roper hill east and Red myers west (this parte hath a house on it belonging to one of the keepers).'—Ibid. This place, Harrison says, was 'once parcell of the demesnes.' 'Booth wood,' apparently near Sheffield castle.—Harrison. Cf. Hathersage booths near Millstone Edge. The canons of Beauchief had a grange at Fullwood, and booth may here be equivalent to grange. I suspect that booth is here equivalent to 'Woodhouse.' We have Dronfield Woodhouse, Handsworth Woodhouse, &c., in the district. In Low Lat. these booths are called logiæ. See Addy's Beauchief Abbey, p. 53.
BOOTY. 'To play booty is to act deceptively.' H.
BOOZE, v. to drink hard.
BOSKIN, sb. the wooden partition in a cow-house to which cows are fastened by means of an iron ring.
BOSON, sb. a badger. H.
BOSS, sb. the nave or central part of a wheel.
BOTCH or BODGE, v. to mend carelessly.
BOTHAM.
- 'The mill field botham,' in Ecclesfield.—Harrison. See BOTTOM.
- M.E. boyem, A.S. botm.
BOTTLE, sb. a bundle of hay or straw.
BOTTOM, sb. a valley.
- E.g. Rivelin Bottom. Also the ball of worsted used by a knitter, or perhaps more strictly the nucleus on which the worsted is wound.—Hunter's MS.
BOUT [baht], sb. a contest, a struggle.
- 'A drinking-bout' means a fit of drunkenness. 'Whoy didn't ya put ya cloth shawl on an yer clogs; yo kno'n second bahts is war nor t' furst a good deeal? Bless ya, tak care a yer sen.'—Bywater.
- 'A badly baht,' a fit of illness.
BOWER LEAS, fields in Sheffield. Harrison.
BOWGE, v. to bulge, as a wall does.
BOWLING ALLEY, a field in Dore. See BURNTSTONES.
BOWSHAW, a place in Dronfield.
- 'Bow lane' in Stannington. 'Bow lees.'—Harrison. M.E. bow, a bend. See Skeat's Etymol. Dict., s.v. bow (2). Shaw= wood.
