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CAP-SCREED, sb. the frill or border of a woman's cap. See SCREED.

CARKE ROYD, a field in Ecclesfield. Harrison.

CARL, v. to parch.
 * ' Applied, I believe, only to peas. ' H.

CARLINGS, ''sb. pl''. peas parched, and eaten on Carling Sunday.
 * ' Peas first well steeped in water and then held in a fire-shovel over a dry and parching heat. . . . Carlings are much more frequently made as a boys' sport when peas are to be had. ' —Hunter ' s MS.

CARR, sb. a marshy place.

CARRY CORN. A man is said to be unable to carry corn when, after becoming elated by success in business, he becomes dissolute in his habits. The expression seems to be borrowed from an over-fed, restive horse.

CARSICK HILL, near Fulwood.
 * Ray mentions carsick, the kennel, as a Sheffield word.

CART CLOSE, in Ecclesall, anno 1807.

CARTER KNOWLE, in Ecclesall.
 * Harrison mentions ' Carter Inge in Ecclesfield. ' There is Carter Hall, near Eckington. Carter field in Ecclesall, anno 1807. ' Willelmus del Kerter ' in Poll Tax Returns for Ecclesfield, 1379, p. II. Bateman mentions ' Carder low ' and ' Carter low ' in Derbyshire.—Ten Years ' Diggings, p. 290. He gives an account of the Carder low barrow in Vestiges, p. 63.

CARTLEDGE, a place near Dronfield.
 * The word occurs as a surname in the district. It appears to be curtilage, a court yard; Low Lat. cortilagium, the same as cortile, which Maigne D'Arnis defines as 'villula paucis ædificiis constructa, domus rusticana prædiolo conjuncta.' There is an ancient house at this place.

CART-RAKE, sb. a cart-rut.

CARTRICK or CATRICK FIELD, in Ecclesall, anno 1807.
 * Catterick, near Richmond, Yorkshire, is Cetrehia in A.S.—Toller ' s Bosworth.

CAT, sb. a piece of household furniture consisting of three pieces of wood so united at the centre as to stand which ever way it is set down. Compare the Chartists' cat for laming troopers' horses. Also a game played with a small piece of wood.

CATCLIFFE, near Tinsley. O. M.

CAT CROFT, a field in Dore.