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BOOTH. It appears to mean something more than a rude building in a forest. ' William Bamforth the younger and the widctow Greaves for Fullwood Booth £12:00: 0. ' —Harrison. ' The booth woods. ' —Ibid. ' Thurston Morton, one of the keepers of Fullwood Booth. ' —Ibid. ' A Peice of pasture called Fulwood Booth lying between Rivelin firth north and abutting on Roper hill east and Red myers west (this parte hath a house on it belonging to one of the keepers). ' —Ibid. This place, Harrison says, was ' once parcell of the demesnes. ' ' Booth wood, ' apparently near Sheffield castle.—Harrison. Cf. Hathersage booths near Millstone Edge. The canons of Beauchief had a grange at Fullwood, and booth may here be equivalent to grange. I suspect that booth is here equivalent to ' Woodhouse. ' We have Dronfield Woodhouse, Handsworth Woodhouse, &c., in the district. In Low Lat. these booths are called logiæ. See Addy's Beauchief Abbey, p. 53.

BOOTY. ' To play booty is to act deceptively. ' H.

BOOZE, v. to drink hard.

BOSKIN, sb. the wooden partition in a cow-house to which cows are fastened by means of an iron ring.

BOSON, sb. a badger. H.

BOSS, sb. the nave or central part of a wheel.

BOTCH or BODGE, v. to mend carelessly.

BOTHAM.
 * ' The mill field botham, ' in Ecclesfield.—Harrison. See BOTTOM.
 * M.E. boyem, A.S. botm.

BOTTLE, sb. a bundle of hay or straw.

BOTTOM, sb. a valley.
 * E.g. Rivelin Bottom. Also the ball of worsted used by a knitter, or perhaps more strictly the nucleus on which the worsted is wound.—Hunter's MS.

BOUT [baht], sb. a contest, a struggle.
 * ' A drinking-bout ' means a fit of drunkenness. ' Whoy didn't ya put ya cloth shawl on an yer clogs; yo kno'n second bahts is war nor t' furst a good deeal? Bless ya, tak care a yer sen. ' —Bywater.
 * ' A badly baht, ' a fit of illness.

BOWER LEAS, fields in Sheffield. Harrison.

BOWGE, v. to bulge, as a wall does.

BOWLING ALLEY, a field in Dore. See BURNTSTONES.

BOWSHAW, a place in Dronfield.
 * ' Bow lane ' in Stannington. ' Bow lees. ' —Harrison. M.E. bow, a bend. See Skeat's Etymol. Dict., s.v. bow (2). Shaw= wood.