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CATER-CORNERED [kaiter-cornered] or CATIE-CORNERED.
 * ' He crossed the field in a cater-cornered fashion, ' means that he did not traverse two sides of it, but took a short cut across on the principle that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. ' To put things cater corner is to place them corner to corner instead of parallel. The black squares of a chessboard go cater corner. ' ' The example quoted to me is "Howd that sack cater-cornered." The person addressed was holding the sack by seams, so as to afford an insufficient opening, and the request was that he should widen the mouth by holding it crosswise. ' —L.

CATER-COUSINS, sb.pl. good friends.

CAT-FEET, ''sb. pl.'' marks left on linen after it is washed and dried.

CATTERSTORTH, a place in Stannington. See STORTH.
 * ' Item a intacke called Catterstorth. ' —Harrison. Perhaps O. Icel. kattarstorð, the wood of the martin cat or wild weasel. But see CATER-CORNERED.

CAUSEY, sb. a causeway or a paved footpath by the side of a road; also a bridle road.
 * ' Payd to Wm. Atkinson for paving the calsey agaynst Hinchcliff house, 1591, ijs. vijd. ' —T. T. A., 65. A field in Dore is called ' Causeway head croft. ' It may be a Roman road; a paved road. Cf. Stanedge Causeway, near Foxhouse.

CAW-SINK-PIN, sb. an old pin picked from the public channels. H.

CESTERN [sestern], sb. a cistern.
 * ' Cesterne, puteau. ' —Palsg.

CHAD, sb. a twig. See CHATS.

CHAFFER.
 * ' A meadowe called the Chaffer lying next Darwin water ' in Bradfield.—Harrison.

CHANCE-CHILD, sb. an illegitimate child.

CHANCIT WOOD, sb. a wood so called in Norton parish.

CHANCLING or CHONCLING, sb. an illegitimate child.

CHAP or CHOP, sb. the cheek.
 * ' He fetched him such a slap i't chops. '
 * ' His chops were that sunk in at t' barber had to put a potato masher in his mouth to shave him.'
 * A pig's chap, a pig's cheek, is a term used by butchers.

CHAP, sb. a man.

CHAP, sb. a male sweetheart.

CHAPMAN FIELD, in Ecclesall, anno 1807.

CHAPPILD, sb. a chappel.