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ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 103 runs on the groimd it is dribbled, or drilled. In a trial at Dewsbmy, June 2d, 1874, a witness said, ' There were three fighting when you plonked Wells in the face.' Plonk is a variation of plump and plunge. Plonker, a large marble of stone, clay, pot, &c about one and a quarter inches in diameter. Plough (pronounced pleugh, or ploo). Plumb. * He's not altogether plumb * means ' He's not right in his head.' Pobble. See Peddle. Peddle, a puddle. An ancient pronunciation. HalL gives an example, podeHs, Poidles, or Pawdles, fancies. Perhaps, according to the analogy of the dialect, this word should be pocuUe or podle, but I can find no trace of it in books. It was said to me of a poor little boy temporarily lame, ' Eh! poor bairn, he's all poidles,^ i. e. full of fancies. [I^bably connected with the Welsh pwd, a fit of the sullens; pwdu. to pout. — W. W. S.] Poise (pronounced poiz), i. e, pose, to kick : a very common word. Perhaps from the French vouaaer, to push out, or perhaps connected wiih the word following. Many years ago three well-known gentle- men, all of whom afterwards became in tneir way distinguished men, were coming up over the fields to Almondbury, and had to pass a number of youtns, who, as the custom was, and in a less degree is still, saluted them withjbheir native humour, in these terms : * Sitha, here's lon^ A , and Ombry B— — , and owd; let's poise his legs straight. Didst ta' iwer see a faaler set o' chaps P Let's poise 'em all.' It is, however, but right to say no violence was attempted, and the three passed on no doubt deeply impressed with the magnanimity of their assailants. See Poaa. Poit (i. e. potCf the original of potter), to poke, kick about, &c. Poit a.nd jpoUer are both used of poking the fire, but the latter would imply reiterated action. * The child is poitin' about i' bed.' One boy potts anotiber out of bed. It was said of a woman who had fallen down, * She were liggin on her rig a poitin^ i. e. lying on her back kicking about [Welsh jwe^ro, to push or poke. — W^ W. S.] Poke (pronounced podk; gl, poa'h'k), a bag or sack. Poll (pronounced pole, and by some poul; gl, poal or poul), to cut the hair. OpheUa, in Hamlet, Act IV. so. v., uses poll for a head of hair. Pommel, Ponimil, or PummiL To pommel, to strike. See Enor and •pell. Pompey, the House of Correction. Poppydock, or Puppydock, the Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea.