AT, conj. and pron. that. M.E., at, that.
- 'At for that as a conjunction and a relative pronoun. One of the test words of the Northern English class of dialects. Sheffield seems to be on its southern boundary, for at Chesterfield, only twelve miles further south, it is quite unknown.' L.
- 'That at is dry the earth shall be.'—Towneley Mysteries, p. 2.
AT, prep. to. 'What will you do at it?' for to it.
AT-AFTER, prep. and adv. after.
- 'For after both as adverb and preposition, but in reference only to time, not to place.' L.
- 'Thah kno's they're better at-after for it.'—Bywater, 195.
ATHER [aither] or OTHER, adj. or pron. either.
ATHINT [atint], adv. behind. Used in the expression 'to ride athint' i.e., to ride behind another person on the same horse.
ATKIN HOLME, a field in Bradfield. Harrison.
ATOMY, sb. a skeleton; an anatomy. Hunter's MS. See NOTOMY.
ATOP, prep, on the top.
ATTERCLIFFE, sb. a hamlet in Sheffield parish. Atteclive in Domesday.
ATTRIL or ATTREL, sb. a cluster, mass.
- A farmer complaining of the way in which his clover was growing said, 'It wur all in a attril,' meaning, as he afterwards explained it, that it grew in a thick mass, entangled together, and not uniformily as in his opinion it ought to have done. It also occurs as ottrel, meaning a scar or cicatrix with a rough surface. A man with a pimpled face from drinking is said to have his face 'all in a ottrel.'
AUNCETRES, sb. pl. ancestors. 'This word may be heard, though rarely, for ancestors.' H. I have not heard it.
AX, v. to ask.
AXED OUT.
- People are said to be axed out after the third and concluding publication of the banns of marriage. The phrase occurs as out axed in Evans' Leicestershire Words. (E. D. S.)
BABBY, sb. a child's name for a picture.
BABBY, sb. a baby.
BACHELOR'S BUTTONS, sb. pl. Lychnis diurna.
BACK-END, sb. the autumn.
