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42 SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY.

CHOIL, v. to file or indent a knife near the bolster, q.v.

'Then they're choiVd if they're not fether-edged vn.s.'Bywater, 52.

CHOIL, sb. the indentation on the cutting side of a knife adjoining the bolster, q.v.

CHOIL, v. to cheat, to overreach.

A boy playing at marbles said to another, ' Tha'rt choilin. 1

CHOIL IT ! Be off ! CHOMP, v. to chew.

CHOOSE-HOW-MUCH, how much soever. L.

' Choose how much I did for him, I never could please him.'

CHOW, v. to chew. A.S. cebwan.

When the lips of a vice will not bite when it is screwed up, but slip to one side without properly grasping each other, they are said to chow.

CHRIMSALL, a place- or field-name in Ecclesfield.

' Ralph and Henry Smyth for Chrimsall a parte of Dickfield Briggfield and a garden ^13 : 10 : oo.' Harrison. See CRIMSALL and CRIMEKER.

CHRISTIAN, sb. a man as distinguished from a beast.

' Nothing is more common among the countrymen than to hear Christian used to mark the distinction between man and the lower classes of animals. I have a shop bill of more than a century old of a man who attended Mans- field market to look after the health of the cattle brought there, with a Nota Bene at the end, "likewise shaves Christians" 'Hunter's MS.^

CHUB, v. to throw with marbles.

CHUCK or CHUCKIE, a domestic fowl. A word used by children.

CHUCK, sb. a darling, a pet child.

CHUCK, v. to throw.

CHUCK, sb. part of a lathe; an instrument containing two or more
 * jaws' for gripping a tool for boring, or an article to be turned.

CHUFF, adj. proud, pleased.

'Thar rare an chuff V that dog o' thoine.'

' It sometimes denotes a combination of fussiness and serene self-satisfaction which it would not be easy to characterise by any accepted English word. A Wesleyan lay preacher, in relating in the pulpit the story of Zacchseus, amused his audience by the observation that "little men oli's is just same as them theer banty-cocks, as chuff 'as chuff can. be." ' L.

CHUFFY, adj. fussy, proud, conceited.

Cotgrave has 'chuffie, fat-cheeked, swelled orpuft up in the face.'

CHUMP or JUMP, sb. the shoulder-piece of beef or mutton.