SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY. 53
COWLEY GORE, sb. the name of a place in Dronfield parish. See GORE.
Tapering strips of land, pointed at one end, in a common field, were called gores or gored acres.
COWLICK or LICK, sb. a mess for cows, composed of chopped hay mixed with barley meal, oatmeal, &c.
COWMOUTH, the name of a farmhouse in Norton. See SOW- MOUTH.
COW-RAKE, sb. a rake for scraping ashes together.
COWS, NAMES OF. 'Cherry,' 'Bunting,' 'Green,' ' Tidswell,' 'Old Slut,' 'Lilly,' 'Rose,' 'Dewdrop,' 'Buttercup,' 'Daisy.'
Cows were often named after the persons who first owned them, or after the places from which they came.
CRACK, v. to boast.
'Nowt to crack on,' nothing to boast of.
CRACK, v. to break into a house ; to commit a felony. CRACKED, adj. foolish, mad. CRACKER, sb. a fib. CRACKSMAN, sb. a burglar. CRAMPY, adj. rheumatic, lame.
CRANFIELD. A.S. cran, a crane?
'A close called Cranfield, in Wincoe,' Ecclesfield. Eastwood, p. 373.
CRANKY, adj. mad, insane. CRAPLY, adj. brittle, easily broken.
CRATCH, sb. a wooden frame for bottles.
- A cratch fill'd with bottles fell down the staircase.'
Mather's Songs, 16.
CRATCHETY, adj. weak, decrepit, broken, infirm.
- This chair is very cratchety.' Generally used of a person in weak or
broken health.
CRATES, sb. pi. the game of nine holes.
This is the game described by John Jones, M.D., in his book called ' The Benefit of the Auncient Bathes of BuckstonesJ 1572, p. 12, as having been played by ladies at Buxton for their amusement in wet weather. See Pegge's ' Anonymiana,' 1818, p. 126. Jones was rector of Treeton, near Sheffield, in 1581. His daughter married a Machon, of Machon Bank. Hunter's Hallamshire, 216.
CRAUNCH or CRANCH, v. to crush.
