ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSriELD. 129 ' IJp-staira and under the bed, Such a life as nivrer wor led. Daan-stairs and under t' stone, There she made him for to gro&n. With a ran, &c. Hip, hip, hurrah ! ' According to another version :
- Up-stairs and into bed
There wor such a pail as ne'er wor led.' Any such demonstration, although the stang may not be used, is called * riding the stang J' In 1857 a man who had a wife of his own weit courting to Honley ; and being found out, the people rode the Biang for him, having previously (it is said) asked permission of the police ! They made a straw effigy of him, put it on the siavg^ fired pistols at it, then pretended to bury it, and finally committed it to the flames : a band accompanying the ceremonies. The people have an impression that if the performance be conducted in three townships it is quite legale and the police cannot interfere ! This must have arisen from the fact of prize-fights taking place on the borders of three counties where it was expected (and sometimes happened) that warrants were not taken out in all the counties, and the fight could proceed unmolested in the second or third. Staple (pronounced st apple ; gL staap'l). By corruption used to express the length of the lock of wool (?). * Long staple * is wool long in the fibre. Stark, stiff ; wearied. Pay has it. In German it means ' strong.' Old Symeon, in the * Purificatio Mariee' {Towneley Mysteries^ p. 154) :
- No wonder if I go on held.
The fevyrs, the nyx, make me unweld, Myn armes, my lymmes, ar stark for eld, And alle gray is my berd.' Starken, to stififen. Melted fat, paste, &c., starken as they cool. Staupardfl, ar Stauperds (pronunciation of stiperds ; gl. staup'urdz), the four main posts by which a loom is supported. Stanp-hoils (pronunciation of stipe-holes)^ small holes full of water in a dirty road, or made by feet of cattle in a wet field. Stew, vh. a word used by schoolboys to express hard study, especi- ally for examinations. [Not locaL — W. W. S.] Stew, sh, ' To kick up a stew ' is to kick up a dust. Stiff (used in a peculiar sense), glad ; rejoiced. A man is stiff of a new coat, &o., or of any kind of good fortune : * I was right stiff (very glad) to see her look so well.' Stigh (pronounced stee), the usual word for * ladder.' From A.S. stigan, to climb, or ascend. See * Jacob * (Towmtley Mysteries^ p. 47) : K
