52 SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY.
COTS, sb. knotted wool from sheep.
COTTED, adj. knotted.
Used of the wool of sheep.
COTTER or COTTERIL, sb. a small round iron pin for fastening
a bolt.
It is used for fastening windows, &c. The cotter having passed through the bolt is made secure by a small iron wedge.
COTTER, v. to strike heavily.
COUMES [coombes] HILLS, near Oughtibridge. Also Coumes Gates. O. M. They are generally called ' the Coombes.' A.S. cumb, Welsh cwm, a hollow among hills ; a narrow valley.
COUNSELLOR, sb. a barrister-at-law.
Hunter mentions ' Counsellor Parker of Woodthorpe.' Hunter's MS.
COUSIN, sb. a nephew or niece. H.
COU-TROUGH [kow-troff], sb. a trough of cold water into which a blacksmith plunges hot iron.
It is sometimes called col-trough [kowl-troff].
COW, v. to rake or scrape together. COWD, adj. cold.
COWELL, in Bradfield.
'A sheep pasture called Agden, lying betweene Agden comwon called Cowell north east and Hawkesworth firth south." Harrison.
COWFORTH.
' Item another intacke called Cowforlhe holme (wood and arable) lying betweene Loxly water north east and Stannington wood south and west.' Harrison. Cf. Oxford. This word should set at rest for ever the disputed etymology of Oxford. It is as much ' ford for oxen' as this is * ford for cows.'
COW GAP, a place in Bradfield. O. M. COWING INGE, a field in Ecclesfield. Harrison.
COWLADY or LADYCOW, sb. a small red beetle, a lady bird. There is a children's rhyme :
' Cowlady, cowlady, fly away home ; Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone.' Or,
- Cushlady, cushlady, fly away home.'
There were other lines, which I cannot recover.
COWLEY, in Bradfield.
' Calfe Hey pastz*n? lying next the Over Hey or the Cowley.' Harrison. 'Great Cowley field' in Dore. 'Cowley Bottoms' in Dronfield. 'Ould Couley and Newfeild.' Rental, 1624.
