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A Supplement to the Glossary of the Dialect of Cumberland E. W. Prevost,S. Dickson Brown No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 34 - To hing ourt' balk," is marriage deferred after publication. Before the Reformation the Laity sat exclusively in the nave of the church. The balk here appears to be the rood beam which separated the nave from the chancel. The exprestion therefore means, to be helped into the choir, where the marriage ceremony was performed.
Page 132 - ... its jurisdiction extends to administer justice for all commercial injuries done in that very fair or market, and not in any preceding one. So that the injury must be done, complained of, heard, and determined, within the compass of one and the same day, unless the fair continues longer.
Page 87 - The unmarried looked out for mates, made their engagement by joining hands, or by "handfasting" — went off in pairs, cohabited till the next annual return of the fair, appeared there again, and then were at liberty to declare their approbation or dislike of each other. If each party continued constant, the...
Page 144 - ... with a banquet, provided on a most liberal scale by the lord of the manor, and open to all who take part in the business of the day. A local usage connected with the landed interest, and long observed with notable regularity, was the following. When salmon were plentiful in the Cumberland rivers, and formed a very important element in the ordinary living of the occupants of adjoining lands, the tenants of the manor of Ennerdale and Kinniside claimed
Page 117 - P. xx. of late to be disused. From the front door an entry runs close behind the fireplace of the better kitchen, directly across the building, to the back door, which opens into a yard where the byres and stables generally are. On one side of this entry is the door leading into the downhouse or kitchen, where they brew, bake, etc.; on the other side of the entry is the passage into the house itself, for so the better kitchen is called, but this passage is close to the back door, so that before you...
Page 160 - ... the marriage of one of his daughters. They were to find him twelve men for his military array. They were to hold watch and ward. They could not enter the forest with bow and arrow. They were restrained from cutting off their dogs...
Page 127 - the heaf is outstocked,' when too many of a family are kept at home ; or an establishment is unwisely enlarged, ' Mair ner t' heaf '11 carry
Page 86 - He lost his hoad, an' flew bull-neck alang t' hallan — PEN. OBS. 1904, Dec. 13, p. 6, col. 4. A screen extending from the front door of a cottage to within the width of a door of the back wall — BKOCKETT . An drew in a stuil by the hallan — ANDERSON Dicky CUmdining, stz. I. But just as Leytle gev' a spang, Loft beurds they brack, an' theer ha' stack A striddlen cock'd o' th
Page 27 - Contributions towards a List of the Minerals occurring in Cumberland and Westmoreland" (Transactions of the Cumberland Association for the Advancement of Literature and Science, Part VII, 18S3, pp.