ALMONDBURY AND HUDDERSFIELD. 75 The pommel is thus formed. The driving jMirt is frequently of ash- root, or owler, in shape like half a sugar-loal, split lengthwise, but only three or four inches long, and the handle is of ash, wrapped with wax band where held, which is in one hand only. This game was not practised here in 1810, and is not much now ; but it is very popular about Dewsbury, Batley, Eobert Town, &o. KratLBom. See Chriaom. Kuss, 8b, a kiss. KuBg (pronounced koas, sharp ; gL kuos), vb. to kiss. Hearing a merry girl use this word to a half-witted youth, who appeared dreadfully alarmed, I thought it meant to curse, but on seekmg an explanation I found I was greatly in error. * Ooom hither, Gborge,' says she,
- and Au'll Jcum thee.* * Nay, nay, tha' shannot'
This letter in many words is entirely silent. 1. In those in which it is silent in ordinary English. 2. In some few other words, as in cold,/oldy hold, matdt, old^ &o., which are cowd, fowdy hod, Tnaat, owd, &o. Sold and told are aelVd and teHVd ; mouldj earth, is sometimes mtdl (muol), but moiUd, a shape, as spelt. As to hold and gold, they are ^nerally sdunded as usual, though sometimes howld and gowld. Scold IS a word not much used, but call instead (which see). Laak. See Laiak. Lad, ab. the ordinary word for boys ; also much used in addressing men, or speaking of them. The soldiers of the 33rd Itegiment are called the Kavercake Lads (see Havercake). The Odd&llows are often spoken of as ' th' Odd Lads,' and so on. Before I was acquainted with Yorkshire usages, I was on one occasion much scandalized when a freshman from this county spoke of his fellow-students at Emmanuel College as ' the lads,* Lady's smook, sb, the local name of the plant Cardamine pratejisis. Laiak (two syllables), vb. to take the weeds out of corn. Ray spells it lotok, of which laak (lah'ak) would be the usual pronunciation, but HaJliwell gives lauk with the same meaning, a word which here would be pronounced loke, Laithe {th as in though), sb, the ordinary word for bam. Lake, vb, to play, be idle, &c. : very common. When men are out of work they are said ' to lake,^ The word is sometimes pronounced as above in one syllable, and occasionally as two— iaiak (lay-ak).
