BARK, sb. a candle box made of tin. H. and L.
BARK, v. to cake, to encrust.
BARKLE, v. idem. Said of dried blood not washed off.
BARLEY, v. to appropriate, reserve.
- 'Barley me this;' I claim this as mine.
- 'Used among schoolboys to assert a prior claim to or rather possession of what was previously in common, as a good bearing hazel tree in a nutting expedition. But then the person who so cries out must be the first finder.'
- Hunter's MS.
BARLEY HAGGS, fields in Ecclesfield. Harrison. See HAG.
BARLOW, a village near Dronfield.
BARLOW KNIVES, sb. pl. pocket knives with long 'bolsters' and one blade. They were named after one Barlow who first made them.
BARM-DUMPLINGS, sb. pl. boiled dough by means of yeast made light.
- 'Common dough made up in balls and boiled.'—Hunter's MS.
BARME-SKIN, sb. a high leathern apron worn by workmen.
BARMY, adj. silly.
BARNES FARM, in Dronfield. Anciently written Semes.
BARRING-OUT, sb. a yearly custom amongst schoolboys of barring or excluding the schoolmaster from school on a particular day. It was common at Dronfield, and Hunter gives an instance from Bolsterston school in 1720.
BARRON LANE, in Bradfield.
- 'An intacke called Barron lane.'—Harrison. Johannes Baron of Handsworth in 1379.—Poll Tax Returns.
BASE GREEN, near Gleadless.
BASS, sb. a workman's wallet or basket.
- A light, limp basket for carrying joiners' tools, vegetables, fish, &c. Also a hassock.
BASSET or BASSET EDGE, sb. an outcrop of coal, &c.
BASSET COTTAGES, near Sheffield. O. M.
BASSINGTHORPE, near Kimberworth.
BASTARD, adj. barren, poor.
- Land is said to be bastard when it will not yield a crop.
