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ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIALD. 9 Bank; to become a bankrapt; or, vb. a. to eauae to become a bankrapt. Banker, a bankrupt. Bannock, a sort of bread made of coarse flour. After baking it is placed on the bayer-biead reel (which see) to dry, then it is considered nt to be eaten. Perhaps the same as Ijeather-cake. One aged man knows nothing of this, out thinks he has heard the word /annocA; used for oat-bread. Bant, to abate in a bargain. Few persons seem to know this, and it may be an error for bate^ or banter. Banter, to talk with the object of beating one down in price. * It's o' no use yor tr3rin' to banter me ; Au s*ll tak* no less.* Baroom (pronounced barhim), a piece of leather on the top of a horse- ooUar— of little use, but sometimes turned down to let off the rain. Barley, the grain (pronounced bairley). This seems also the case elsewhere : see The Laird o* Drum, yer. 1 : ' The Laird o' Drum is a hunting gane, All in the morning early. And he has spied a weel-faur'd May A-shearing at her barley,^ Barley, a word used by schoolboys when they want to rest in play ; also, like bags, to bespeak a thing, as, 'Barley me that desk.' Barlow is also used in the first sense, as, * I cried barlow,* and so on. Both in use as &r back as 1814, and supposed to be a corruption of parley. Barley time, a period during the great French war, when wheat could hardly be purchased, and barley had to be used for bread. Bam, a child : the true form of the word, but here pronounced bairfiy and usually spelt so. It merely follows the analogy of oertain other words, arm, card, &c., which become airm, caird, &o. See Letter A (1). Barque, or Bark, a box for candles, which is called the * cannle- bark: Barrow, a flannel garment for an infant between the chemise and the lapping piece. The word used in Somerset in the same sense. Bat, a stroke, or a blow. ' He has not struck a hat sin' Christmas,' «. e, he has done no work. It expresses also a state or condition. < What bai are ye at ? ' «. e. what are you doing ? Bat, the straw of two wheat-sheayes tied together. The loose straw arising from the thrashing of seyeral sheayes, after the bate were taken, would form a bottle. Bate , the past tense of to bite. Batter and crown him, a well-known boys' game ; otherwise, Baste the Bear,