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ALMONDBURY AND HUDDERSFIKLD. 97 Palt (pronounced pault), to mend. May be said of mending a stock- ing, a ooat, a oart, or indeed anything. ' Tha* a't pcUtin* up then.* Pan, vb. to settle, unite, fit, &c. Boards pan when they lie close together. Also may be said of a man : ' He pans to work,' i. e. settles down to it. Pancake BelL Se« Fastens Tuesday. Pancheon, or Panshxin, sb. an earthenware bowl, unglazed externally, and internally glazed black or yellow: used for kneading bread, washing small articles, and oontaming milk to be skimmed. Parkin, oatmeal gingerbread, universally used here on the 5th Nov., and for many days after. Presents of it are often sent to me by the boys' parents, and others. Parlour (pronounced paylour ; gl. pail'ur). See Letter S. Parpoint, the name of a certain sized stone, much about the form and buUc of a brick, but rather thinner. It is used chiefly for forming inner and division walls, and is no doubt derived from the old French parpaigne, ^ Parpaigne, a pillar, buttresse, or supporter of stone- works, serving to bear up a beam or summer in a walL' — Cotgrave. Part, used by some persons in a peculiar way for some. * He has part money ' = * he has some money.* Pash, sb, a word used to express a quantity of rain (Hall, says of snow also). ' It will clear up after another pash of rain.' Used jokingly also of fine weather. Also used for a large quantity of any liquid. A Huddersfield woman, determined to marry a man ia spite of the strenuous opposition of her friends, said, * 111 have a pash in the piggen, though I pay for the girthing.' Pash, vb. The wind poshes (i. e. blows) the door to. * He poshed his neive i' mi face ' = struck me. Pas to strike, occurs in Tudor-English in Ford's Lovers^ Melancholy y i 1 ; and in Shakespeare. Pattren^ i, e. pattern. George Hepplestone, a well-known humorous native who had the unenviable distinction of being one of the last men placed in the stocks (which he preferred to paying the fine, in order to annoy the constable), on one occasion had been to 'The Wood' for work, and proceeding homewards, met John Mallinson, father of the well-known schoolmaster, to whom he said, ' Johnny, what does ta' think P Au've been to t' Wood for mi pattren, an' it's to be wooven wi' fouer treddles. Naa, if. we had been intended to wave wi' fouer treddles, we'd ha' had fouer legs instead o' two. Doesn't ta' think sooa ? ' Of. F. patron, a pattern. — Cotgrave. Pawk {ffl. pauk), the pronunciation of pike (which see). Pay, to beat. Formerly in good use. See Dunbar's King Hart^ c. ii st. 58 : ' Heidwerk, Hoist, and Farlasy maid grit j[)ay,' i. e. gave a sound beating. H