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44 SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY.

CLAP-CAKE. I have heard a nursery rhyme beginning :

' Clap-a-cake, clap-a-cake, baker's man, Knead and bake it as fast as you can, Stick it and prick it, and mark it with T, And throw it i't' oven for Tommy and me.'

CLAP DOWN, v. to lay down hastily. CLAPPER, sb. the tongue.

CLARISTILE FLATT.

A piece of arable land in Parke field. Harrison.

CLART, v. to strike forcibly. A variant of clout. ' Clart that rabbit on t' 'eead.'

CLART Y, adj. dirty with a degree of stickiness. H. CLAVER, sb. clover. A.S. clafre. Du. klaver.

CLAWK or CLEAK, v. to claw, to lay hold of. M.E. cttchcn. 'The cat clawked"ho\& of the fish.'

CLAWM, v. to handle roughly, to toss about.

Poor people who buy pieces of meat at the butcher's on Saturday night are said to clawm them about with their hands.

CLAY WOOD, near Bradway. O. M.

CLEAN, adv. entirely.

' It's clean gone out o' my mind.'

CLEAR, sb. a claw, a hoof. M.E. diver, 'unguis.'

A man was sent to look after some sheep. He came back and said ' they were all right and pickin' their clears.' It is also used of the claws of a bird.

CLEAVE, v. to seize, to lay hold of. ' Cleave hold o' that chair. '

CLETCH, sb. a brood of chickens, &c.

CLEVER, adj. physically strong.

'She's a clever old woman,' means 'she's a woman well able to walk,' &c.

CLICK, v. to lay hold of. See CLAWK. CLINK, sb. a small or fine crack. CLINKER, sb. a strong nail for shoes. CLIPPER, sb. a close or niggardly person.

CLIP-POINT, sb. a knife shaped like a scimitar with a turned up point.