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BURN CROSS, in Ecclesfield.
 * ' A tenement called Burnt Crosse ' in Ecclesfield.—Harrison. The t has been added in the MS. See Eastwood's Ecclesfield, 416. ' Farn or Burn-Cross, in the parish of Ecclesfield. ' —Langdale's Topograph. Diet, of Yorkshire, 1809, p. 191.

BURNED ACRE, in Bradfield.
 * ' Burned acre. ' —Harrison. It abutted south-west on Agden water. It contained two acres. See BLACKO PLAINE.

BURNGREAVE.
 * Harrison calls this word ' Burnt Grave ' and ' Burne Greaves ' wood. It was a ' spring ' wood of twenty-two acres. See BURNTSTONES.

BURNT HILL, near Oughtibridge. O. M.

BURNTSTONES, the name of a place near Bell Hagg.
 * ' Imprimis an enclosure of pasture called Bowling Allie lying environed with a common called Rivelin Firth called Burnestone towards the north. ' —Harrison.

BURN WOOD, near Treeton. O. M.

BURRAS, sb. borax.
 * M.E. borace, Ital. borace.

BURRELEE.
 * ' Item a piece of arable called Burrelee dole lying between the lands of Henry Birley north and the Countesse of Pembrooke's lands west, ' &c., at Owlerton.—Harrison. ' A burre hylle; lappetum, est locus ubi crescunt lappe. ' Cath. Angl. Birley and Burrell both occur as surnames in the district.

BURRIT, sb. the rounded head of a rivet

BURRO WLEE, in Ecclesfield. Eastwood, p. 286.

BURRS, sb. pl. the seed vessels of the burdock.

BURY-HOLE, sb. a grave.

BUSK, sb. a bush.
 * ' A gooseberry-busk, ' ' a holly-busk, '  ' a kissing-busk. ' Harrison mentions ' Buske meadow ' and ' Buskey meadow. '  ' The Buskers, ' ibid. ' A close called the Buske ' in Bradfield.—Harrison. The surname Bush occurs in the district.

BUSK, v. to be busy, to go about briskly.

BUTCHERSWICK, near Eckington. O. M.
 * There is a Buttenvyk in the county of Durham.—Boldon Book, p. 37.

BUTT, sb. part of the shoulder of a pig.

BUTTER-CAKE, sb. a buttered cake.
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