16 THE DIALEOT OV Brat, the smock worn by wooI-6orteiB ; also a pinafore. Halliwell Bays, * An Anglo-Saxon word, meaning a coarse mantle.' It is men- tioned in Ghanoer's Canterbury TcUe$, A little boy from Cnmbeorland, on his first visit to Yorkshire, enooimtered at Bradford railway station a wool-sorter attired in the usual lonff clean pinafore. lUie cLdld gazed with astonishment at the man, whom he evidently regarded as some strange kind of clergyman. The object of his wonder, evidently amused, exclaimed good-temperedly, * Bless t* lad I Did he niwer see a brcU afore F ' Brannging, overbearing. Halliwell says, ' pompous.' The sound of the word suggests the spelling ' brange.' . See Letter A (4). Bray, to braise or break (as in a mortar) ; also to beat Stones are brayed for the roada Bre&d (pronounced as two syllables; gL breeud). Many other words follow tins rule. See Ea. ' 'Wlien An were a young man up to twenty- four years of ace ' («'. e, 1824) ' Au*d niwer a bit a whe&ten br^dd, nobbut on a Sunday. Abaat eighteen hundred and ten or eleven we paid as mioh as eight shillinc^s and sixpence a stoan of fifteen puna ; tiien it lowered to seven shulings. Theer was no o'oms and boilers i' them days.' Bread-oreel, or Bread-reel, a frame suspended in the kitchen on which the oat-bread is himg to dry. Breadth (pronounced bredth), area, or acreage. Said of a fSann, < What breadth o' land is there ? ' Breftstbeaniy part of a loom. Breeder. A day peculiarly fine, especially if out of season, is said to be a ' weather-^eecier,' i. e. worse must be expected soon. Jan. 4, 1876, was a remarkably brilliant day by Castle Mill, when Hudders- field was wrapped in a black fog ; on the 6th and 7th snow came. Halliwell says it is an eastern county word for a fine day, but it is p^ectly well known here. Also they call it a breeder if the sky looks red and angry in a morning. Brekken, same as Brokken. Brestye, or Briestye, of a coal-pit ; called also the dayhole, e^ehoil^ i.e. eyehole. It is the place where the coals are brought out in scoops or waggons. Breward, the brim of a hat. A.S. hrerd. is coming up evenly and well. A.S. brord^ a blade of grass. , or Browis. This is a favourite dish with some people. It is made from oat-cake bv * teeminer ' hot water upon it to soften it ; then some peppe: this is very poor, having no fat
