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58 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. Jumper, (1) sb. a kind of maggot in meat. (2) ab, a bar of steel or iron used at a quarry for boring a hole in the rock to receive a charge of powder for blasting. Jump jack, sb. the breast-bone of a goose made into a child's toy, with cobbler* 8 wax, a string, and a stick. Jimdy, {I) sb, a push. (2) v. to jostle ; to gush. Jnrr, sb. a cart-load of flax offered for sale, which it is suspected is not the genuine production of the farmer, but has been manipulated by some unscrupulous dealer, is called ajurr, or ajurred load. Jute of tea, sb. a small quantity of tea. runt, sb. a cabbage stalk. Kailyee, sb. a friendly evening visit. yaimiu' kaim, sb. an ivory or * fine-tooth ' comb. Kaivel, Kevel, v. to toss the head, as a horse does. Also applied to the same kind of gesture in a person. ' Watch the way yon girl kaivels her heed.' Kam, sb. a small iron pan used for holding the melted grease from which rushlights were made. A mould for casting several small bullets at once, or for casting small articles in. Kash, sb. a bog road, or causeway of uncut turf. Keokle, sb. a smothered laugh. Keddis, sb. a small quantity of silk, or woollen material, or flax, stuffed into au ink-bottle, and then saturated with ink. The pen is supplied by coming in contact with the keddiSj and if the bottle is overset the ink does not spill. Keed, sb. cud. * Chow the Jceed.^ Keek, v. to peep. Keel, sb. ruddle, a red earthy substance. Keel men, sb. the term for a class of illiterate buyers, who used to attend the country linen markets. When one of them purchased a web of brown hand-loom linen, he marked with a piece of * keel,' on the outside lap, some obscure characters, which were to the keel man a record of the cost price, &c. Keen, (1) adj. anxious ; eager. * She's Jceen to be married.' (2) sb. a cry of lamentation over a corpse. (3) V. to wail or cry over a corpse. * When I heard the ban-shoe it was just like an old woman keenyingj Keenk, v. to cough ; to laugh in a convulsive way.