ALMONDBURY AND HUDDERSPIELD. 101 he preyailed on her tormentors to 'withdraw her from the durance, which had now become insupportable. She never attempted that way again. Pie (pionounced paw ; gl. pau). See Liken. Piece, a name given to a person, man or woman. ' A qjieer piece ' is a queer fellow. Pienet (pronounced j^aum^^/ gl. pau 'net), a magpie. iffy & game for boys, well known, but comparatively new here, somewhat similar to the ' cat ' of the south. See Bad. The pig is a long piece of wood pointed at the ends. ig-coit, or Pig-hoil, i, e. pig-cote, a pigsty. Piggen, or Piggin, a vessel with one handle, of wood, tin, &c., for holding or transferring liquids. Bay says an erect handle. [Welsh picyUf a piggin, or noggin. — ^W. W. 8.] Pigmarine, a term of contempt formerly applied to volunteers. Pig's fraw, i, 6. pig's fry. See Bedlamspit. Pike (pronounced pawk : gl, pauk), to pick. They pike a bone, teeth, &o. After a mowing-machine has gone over a field, the labourers go round near the edges piking with a scythe ; after harvest, raking over the field to gather up stray corn is piking. Not used for picking a thing from the ground. See ' to pick.' As a sort of catch specimen of Yorkshire dialect, the expression, ' T' weet maks 'em pawk 'em,' is a great favourite. It is apphed to fowls cleaning themselves after rain, and the interpretation is, * The wet makes them pick them- selves.' Pike occurs in bunbar's Tidings from the Session :
- Some cut throats, and some pykes purses.'
Again, in the Tvfa Corhies (ravens), ver. 9 :
- Ye' 11 sit on his white hause-bane.
And I'll pike out his bonny blue e'en.' Pikelet (pronounced pawMet ; gl. paukiet), a crumpet : also used in Monmouthshire. Pill, to peel, or strip off the bark from a tree : common in Old English. Pimrose, a primrose : note the elision of the r. See Letter S. Pindar, or Pinder, the keeper of the pound, or pinfold. [A.S. pyndan, to pen up. — ^W. W, S.] Pinfold, the pound for cattle. Pinnacle, the name of a field at Famley Wood ; also of one on the top of a hill between Whitley and Mirfield. Perhaps this word is the same as pendicle : see Dedication to the Heart of Midlothian.
