ALMONDBURY AND HUDDERSFIELD. 127 Spinnle, or Spinnil, spindle. Spinny gronny, L e. spinning granny, or Tom spinner, the Crane- fly. Spittle, or Baking spittle, a wooden shovel for moving cakes, bread, &c. in the oven. Splatterdash, to put on a house lime, or pebbles, before -white- washing. Splint, spread, as of marbles which lie asunder. Splints, a game at marbles, in which they are dropped from the hand in heaps. Spuds, potatoes of all kinds. Spuers, squibs ; serpents ; a kind of fireworks. Stack, eight sheaves of corn set up together in a field. [In Hood's Buth called stook^^W. W. S.] Stackbrods, the sticks to fasten the thatch on corn-stacks, &c. These are commonly of hazel, from eighteen inches to two feet long, pointed at the thicker end, and slightly forked at the other. In Cumberland they are called apelks. Stackgarth, a stackyard, or rick yard. Stackles, used peculiarly. * Whatever he took he had no stackles^ i. e. the food did not stay on his stomach. Staddle, boughs of trees, poles, &c. placed on the ground (or on a frame) to rest a stack upon. The material is the staddlwg, Staddlethorpe, near Hull. Sta'em, or Stame (gl. staim, or stai'h'm), t. e. steven ("ee Sa*em, &c.), to bespeak for a certain time ; to give an order for a thing. A man sta^eme a pair of shoes, a new coat, a * pack * of potatoes, &c. This word, lon^ known to me by sound, I found it difficult to hunt down. Ray has it, and spells it steiuy or ateveii. [From A.S. ate/efi, voice, pence, appointed time; Chaucer has steven. — ^W. W. S.]
- Dost thou not know that thy father went to John Walker's to
tieime a pare of shooes, and he would not let him have them without he had money in his hand, but he never made pare after.' — Dejpositions from York Castle (Surtees Society), p. 210. This word ataem, or steven^ occurs as a substantive in Robin Hood and Guy of Qisborne, ver. 28 : ' First let us some masterye make Among the woods so even, We may chance to meet with Bobin Hood Here at some unsett steven*
