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BOWZER, the pronunciation of Bolsover, co. Derby. See BOLSOVER HILL.
- 'This pronunciation,' says Hunter, 'was in constant use in the seventeenth century, even by the noble family to whom the town and castle belonged. Even in the reign of Edward II. we find a John de Bousser placed at the head of a commission of inquiry in the county of Derby.'
- Hunter's MS.
BRAD, sb. a small headless nail.
BRADLEY BRIGGS, fields in Ecclesfield. Harrison.
BRADWAY, a hamlet in Norton.
- C.f. Bradfield in Ecclesfield, Bradfield near Machon bank, and Bradgate near Kimberworth. The broad road which goes through Bradway is called regia via (the king's highway) in a deed affecting land in Bradway dated c. 1280. Derb. Arch. J., iii. 101.
BRAG, sb. a large nail used in fastening flakes in fences.
- 'Sam's soles were near two inches thick,
- With here and there a brag.'
- John Smith's Songs, 2nd edit., p. 23.
BRAN, adj. new. 'A bran spankin moggana table.' Bywater, 160.
BRANCH COAL, cannel coal.
BRANDRETH or BRANDRY, sb. a frame to support stacks.
- 'A brandryth to set begynnynge (byggyng) on.' Loramentum. Cath. Angl.
BRANDY-SNAP, sb. thin gingerbread sold at the fair.
BRASE [braze], v. to solder; 'to braze pipes together.'
BRASH, sb. an eruption on the skin.
BRASS, sb. money.
BRAST, v. to push on quickly, to make haste.
- A card-player would say, if his opponent were slow in playing, 'Now, then, brast' i.e., be quick, get on. See brast-off in Nodal and Milner's Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect.
BRAT, sb. a pinafore.
- 'That child's brat is dirty.' M. E. brat, pallium.
BRAVELY, adj. in good health. L.
- 'Brave, in good health.' H.
BRAWN, sb. a boar.
- I have not heard the word in use, but it is the title of a song by Mather, p. 42. 'The Brawn' was the sign of a public-house in Sheffield.
- 'It is of a brawn as you hear
- Whose picture hangs up for a sign.'
- Ibid., p. 42.
