SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY. 43
CHUNTER, v. to grumble, to mutter sullenly.
CHURCH-LANE-BOB, sb. a shuffle at cards.
A few of the middle cards are pushed through. A street in Sheffield is called Church Lane.
CHURCH MASTERS, sb.pl. churchwardens. H. CHURR, sb. a whirr, a noise made by birds. CHUVEL-HEADED, adj. excessively dull and stupid.
CINDERCLIFFE, a place in Ecclesfield.
- The name of the house is variously written Cindercliffe, corrupted into
Synocliffe and Senelcliff. 'Eastwood's Ecclesfield, p. 362. Synercliffe in 1 577 .
md., p. 365.
CINDERHILL, a common field-name about Sheffield. CINDERWIG, sb. an opprobrious epithet.
- Old cinderwig.'*
CINGLET, sb. a vest, or piece of underclothing worn next to the skin.
CIVER HILL [Seiver hill], in Ecclesall, anno 1807. Over wood is adjacent.
These places are near Castle Dyke and Whiteley Wood. The high and almost treeless land about Whirlow was the site, as the place-names appear to show, of an early British settlement. The O. M. gives Priest hill. I am told that a man called Priest lived here early in the present century. Rushes grow on this hill. Seive, a dwarf rush. Halliwell. Danish siv, Swedish scef, a rush.
CLACK, v. to clatter, to chatter. M.E. clacken, O. Dutch klacken. CLACK, sb. noisy, foolish talk. CLAGG, v. to stick, to adhere. CLAGGY, adj. sticky, relating to the feet.
CLAM, v. to starve.
' I'm clammed,' that is, famished for want of food.
CLAM, sb. leather, paper, or lead linings for the jaws of a vice. A.S. clam, a bandage.
CLAP BENE.
' Little children are taught to clap bene, the latter word being pronounced as a dissyllable. The action is the clapping of the hands, and the morality of the action is prayer; it is the mute imploring of a blessing.' H.
