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 piece of common to his land called Handcocks, in digging into a low or heap of stones called Bole Low or Bone Low, upon the edge of Darwen Moor, above a place called Bamforth House, found three or four pots of earth, badly baked, and scored on the outside, full of human bones. ' MS. of John Wilson of Broomhead Hall, printed by Bateman in Ten Years ' Diggings, p. 253. In 1624 a bole hill, in or near Sheffield, was divided into seven parts. Nich. Morton held, inter alia, a seventh part. The remaining six parts were held by five tenants at a joint rental of £3. 8s. 6d. See DOWEL LUM.

BOLL or BOLL-PAWED, adj. left-handed.
 * It is pronounced like doll.

BOLSOVER HILL, near Sheffield. O. M.

BOLSTER, sb. a solid lump of steel or some other metal between the tang and the blade of a knife. In the best knives it is forged as part of the blade.
 * ' We'd none a yer wirligig polishin, nor Tom Dockin scales wi t ' bousters cumin off. ' —Bywater, 33.

BOLSTER-STONE, sb. a stone used by grinders in grinding the bolsters of knives.

BOLSTERSTONE, a village near Sheffield.
 * ' Balderston alias Bolsturston' in 1453–90.—Eastwood's Ecclesfield, p. 68.

BONE-HUGGING, carrying corpses to the grave.

BONE-IDLE, adj. very idle.

BONK, v. to make bankrupt.
 * It is used by boys playing at marbles. ' O've ommast bonked him, ' i.e., won all his marbles.

BOO, sb. the bough of a tree.

BOOAN, the pronunciation of bone.

BOODER or BOOLDER, sb. a boulder-stone.
 * ' An braik his heead agean a holder. ' —Bywater, 23.

BOOK, sb. bulk. H.

BOON, sb. a day's ploughing given by one farmer to another. This is done when a farmer enters upon a new farm, or if he is in arrear with his work.

BOOSE-STAKE, sb. the wooden post to which cows are fastened in a cowhouse.

BOOTE LEE, a field in Bradfield.
 * ' Ro: Hawckesworth for Boote Lee and Hawckesworth Inge £06:10:00. '
 * Harrison. The word Boot is found as a surname in Sheffield. Perhaps the same as Butt.