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ANPARSY, sb. the symbol &, signifying et or and.
- This symbol used to follow the letter Z in the alphabet, so that a child when repeating it would say 'X Y Z, anparsy' The accent is on the penultimate. The meaning 'and per se' is explained in the New English Dictionary under the letter A.
ANTHONY FIELD, in Dore. See SAINT ANTHONY'S HILL.
- 'In the afternoon we made four trenches in another barrow, situated on a neighbouring eminence, called Anthony Hill.'—Bateman's Ten Years' Diggings, p. 81.
APPLE TREE YARD SICKE, a field in Ecclesfield. Harrison.
- Cf. Appletrewick in Burnsall, near Skipton.
APPREN, sb. an apron.
ARBOR THORNE HURST, a place in Sheffield. Harrison.
ARCHER FIELD, in Ecclesall, anno 1807.
ARGIFY, v. to argue.
ARK, sb.
- Hunter explains this word thus: 'The large chest in farm houses used for keeping meal and flour. The arks are usually made of strong oaken planks, which are sometimes elaborately carved, and are often very capacious, so that an instance might occur like the affecting story of the Italian bride. They resemble the chests found in churches containing the parish books and papers ; such a chest in the church of Ecclesfield is especially called an ark in 1527, as I am informed by the Rev. Mr. Eastwood. Many of these articles of household furniture are evidently of high antiquity. The making of them must have constituted in early times a distinct occupation as is evident from the existence of the surname of Arkwright.'—Hunter's MS.
- I believe that these chests were mostly intended for home-spun linen; they are often called 'dower chests,' and being filled with linen were the presents which the spinster-daughter of the yeoman or little squire brought to her husband on marriage.
ARLE, v. to earn.
- 'I might as well arle a penny.'
ARLES, sb. an earnest penny.
- 'The giving of an arles succeeds the shaking of hands in concluding a bargain. . . . It is written erles in Ecclesfield parish register, where it denotes money given to a clergyman when first engaged.'—Hunter's MS.
ARRAND, sb. an arrand.
- 'Furst chap at comes e ahr hahce uppa that harrand.'—Bywater, 28.
ARRIAN or ARRAN, sb. a spider.
- The Cath. Angl. has erane. Hunter gives the word as arren.
ARRIDGE, sb. a ridge, or edge.
- See Arris in New Eng. Dict.
