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BURN CROSS, in Ecclesfield.
- 'A tenement called Burnt Crosse' in Ecclesfield.—Harrison. The t has been added in the MS. See Eastwood's Ecclesfield, 416. 'Farn or Burn-Cross, in the parish of Ecclesfield.'—Langdale's Topograph. Diet, of Yorkshire, 1809, p. 191.
BURNED ACRE, in Bradfield.
- 'Burned acre.'—Harrison. It abutted south-west on Agden water. It contained two acres. See BLACKO PLAINE.
BURNGREAVE.
- Harrison calls this word 'Burnt Grave' and 'Burne Greaves' wood. It was a 'spring' wood of twenty-two acres. See BURNTSTONES.
BURNT HILL, near Oughtibridge. O. M.
BURNTSTONES, the name of a place near Bell Hagg.
- 'Imprimis an enclosure of pasture called Bowling Allie lying environed with a common called Rivelin Firth called Burnestone towards the north.'—Harrison.
BURN WOOD, near Treeton. O. M.
BURRAS, sb. borax.
- M.E. borace, Ital. borace.
BURRELEE.
- 'Item a piece of arable called Burrelee dole lying between the lands of Henry Birley north and the Countesse of Pembrooke's lands west,' &c., at Owlerton.—Harrison. 'A burre hylle; lappetum, est locus ubi crescunt lappe.' Cath. Angl. Birley and Burrell both occur as surnames in the district.
BURRIT, sb. the rounded head of a rivet
BURRO WLEE, in Ecclesfield. Eastwood, p. 286.
BURRS, sb. pl. the seed vessels of the burdock.
BURY-HOLE, sb. a grave.
BUSK, sb. a bush.
- 'A gooseberry-busk,' 'a holly-busk,' 'a kissing-busk.' Harrison mentions 'Buske meadow' and 'Buskey meadow.' 'The Buskers,' ibid. 'A close called the Buske' in Bradfield.—Harrison. The surname Bush occurs in the district.
BUSK, v. to be busy, to go about briskly.
BUTCHERSWICK, near Eckington. O. M.
- There is a Buttenvyk in the county of Durham.—Boldon Book, p. 37.
BUTT, sb. part of the shoulder of a pig.
BUTTER-CAKE, sb. a buttered cake.
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