ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 7 Bad (to rhyme to sad^ pad, lad, had, &c.) seems to be the proniin- elation, or at least a variationf of the word ^ ; so lud is used for huU
- Lakin' at had * is ' playing at bat ^ — a rude kind of cricket, played
with a bat and ball, usually with wall toppings for wickets. One of my informants (1875) says, * There was no lakin* at had sixty years ago ; they call it ended naa. There's a dedl more on it at the bothum o my field nor Au lauken on ' (like). Halliwell says it was a rude game formeriy common in Yorkshire, and probably resembling the game of cat There is such a game still played, and yery popular wim youngsters, but it is called ' pi^ * ; a aangerous game, against which the superintendent of police issues occasional manifestoes. I have seen one within a week or two (Dec. 1876) warning all lads of the consequences of playing this game. Badger, a flour or com dealer ; a pedlar. Properly, one who buys in one place and sells at a distance. Badly. 8ome make a distinction between badly and powly. * Oh, Au am hadly with tooithwark,' &c. ; but if sick, or really ill, they use poorly in preference. Bag, notable for the expression, 'to give the hag^ which is to dismiss; or ' to get the hag^* i. e. to be dismissed. In some parts to give and get * the sack.' The word has loog been known in this sense. In a Quip for an Upstart Courtier ^ published 1592, we read,
- Tou shall be light-footed to travel far, light- witted upon every
small occasion to give your masters the hag.* Again, in The Lament- ahle Complaints of Hop the Brewer, and Kilcalfe the Butcher, 1641, we find:
- ffop. 1 pray. Master Eilcalf, can you prevent him ?
Kilcalf, Why, Til show him the hag ; 111 run, man. Dost under- stand me ? Hop. Ye& ver^ well; but I believe that he had rather you would show him ms money, and then he would understand you.' From the above quotation * to show the hag * seems to be to dismiss one's self. Bags, a word uped by schoolboys when they assert a priority of claim to anvthing by mere calling. It is used thus : ' Bags me that bat, seat,* &c. Bee Barley. At King James's School the boy who got first to bed at night (or if sent to bed in the day-time) used to • hag the bowls,' i. e. he claimed and assumed the right to say who should wash first in the morning, and which bowl each boy should have for his use. There is some limitation now (1875) on this singu- lar proceeding. In a tale called My Schoolhoy Friends, by A. B. Hope, hair a dozen of the boys have to be thrashed, and one, having nis thick jacket awav at the tailoi/s, says, ' Bags me to ^ in last ; hell have to go over five of you, and he'll be pretty well tired by the time he comes to me.' Ball, or Bale, to fester, or swell, when a wound heals up falsely. Bairn, a child. See Bam. Bakbrade. This is the word which Halliwell calls backboard. It is in fact the haking-hoard. Bred is the Anglo-Saxon word for hoard. The hakhrade is about twenty inches long, by eighteen inches broad,
