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CATER-CORNERED [kaiter-cornered] or CATIE-CORNERED.
- 'He crossed the field in a cater-cornered fashion,' means that he did not traverse two sides of it, but took a short cut across on the principle that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. 'To put things cater corner is to place them corner to corner instead of parallel. The black squares of a chessboard go cater corner.' 'The example quoted to me is "Howd that sack cater-cornered." The person addressed was holding the sack by seams, so as to afford an insufficient opening, and the request was that he should widen the mouth by holding it crosswise.'—L.
CATER-COUSINS, sb.pl. good friends.
CAT-FEET, sb. pl. marks left on linen after it is washed and dried.
CATTERSTORTH, a place in Stannington. See STORTH.
- 'Item a intacke called Catterstorth.'—Harrison. Perhaps O. Icel. kattarstorð, the wood of the martin cat or wild weasel. But see CATER-CORNERED.
CAUSEY, sb. a causeway or a paved footpath by the side of a road; also a bridle road.
- 'Payd to Wm. Atkinson for paving the calsey agaynst Hinchcliff house, 1591, ijs. vijd.'—T. T. A., 65. A field in Dore is called 'Causeway head croft.' It may be a Roman road; a paved road. Cf. Stanedge Causeway, near Foxhouse.
CAW-SINK-PIN, sb. an old pin picked from the public channels. H.
CESTERN [sestern], sb. a cistern.
- 'Cesterne, puteau.'—Palsg.
CHAD, sb. a twig. See CHATS.
CHAFFER.
- 'A meadowe called the Chaffer lying next Darwin water' in Bradfield.—Harrison.
CHANCE-CHILD, sb. an illegitimate child.
CHANCIT WOOD, sb. a wood so called in Norton parish.
CHANCLING or CHONCLING, sb. an illegitimate child.
CHAP or CHOP, sb. the cheek.
- 'He fetched him such a slap i't chops.'
- 'His chops were that sunk in at t' barber had to put a potato masher in his mouth to shave him.'
- A pig's chap, a pig's cheek, is a term used by butchers.
CHAP, sb. a man.
CHAP, sb. a male sweetheart.
CHAPMAN FIELD, in Ecclesall, anno 1807.
CHAPPILD, sb. a chappel.
