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SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY. 43

CHUNTER, v. to grumble, to mutter sullenly.

CHURCH-LANE-BOB, sb. a shuffle at cards.

A few of the middle cards are pushed through. A street in Sheffield is called Church Lane.

CHURCH MASTERS, sb.pl. churchwardens. H. CHURR, sb. a whirr, a noise made by birds. CHUVEL-HEADED, adj. excessively dull and stupid.

CINDERCLIFFE, a place in Ecclesfield.

Synocliffe and Senelcliff. 'Eastwood's Ecclesfield, p. 362. Synercliffe in 1 577.
 * The name of the house is variously written Cindercliffe, corrupted into

md., p. 365.

CINDERHILL, a common field-name about Sheffield. CINDERWIG, sb. an opprobrious epithet.


 * Old cinderwig.'*

CINGLET, sb. a vest, or piece of underclothing worn next to the skin.

CIVER HILL [Seiver hill], in Ecclesall, anno 1807. Over wood is adjacent.

These places are near Castle Dyke and Whiteley Wood. The high and almost treeless land about Whirlow was the site, as the place-names appear to show, of an early British settlement. The O. M. gives Priest hill. I am told that a man called Priest lived here early in the present century. Rushes grow on this hill. Seive, a dwarf rush. Halliwell. Danish siv, Swedish scef, a rush.

CLACK, v. to clatter, to chatter. M.E. clacken, O. Dutch klacken. CLACK, sb. noisy, foolish talk. CLAGG, v. to stick, to adhere. CLAGGY, adj. sticky, relating to the feet.

CLAM, v. to starve.

' I'm clammed,' that is, famished for want of food.

CLAM, sb. leather, paper, or lead linings for the jaws of a vice. A.S. clam, a bandage.

CLAP BENE.

' Little children are taught to clap bene, the latter word being pronounced as a dissyllable. The action is the clapping of the hands, and the morality of the action is prayer; it is the mute imploring of a blessing.' H.