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SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY. 45

CLIPPET, sb. a small brass or iron cap for the toe of a shoe.

CLIVVIS, sb. a strong hook used by miners.

It is fixed at the end of a chain or rope to hold a bucket. When the hook is fixed to the handle of the bucket it is secured with an iron pin.

CLOCKING, the noise made by a hen when she is going to sit. A variant of cluck.

CLOCKS, sb. ornaments woven into a stocking; a pattern in a stocking.

CLOCKS, sb. pi the downy head of a dandelion.

Children use these to tell the time with. If the down is blown away at one breath it is one o'clock, if it requires two puffs to blow it all away it is two o'clock, and so on up to twelve.

CLOCKS, sb. pi. blackbeetles.

CLOG, sb. a lump, as of snow on the heel, &c.

CLOG, sb. a shoe with a wooden sole.

CLOGGER, sb. a man who makes clogs.

CLOGG FIELD, in Ecclesall, anno 1807.

CLOISE, sb. a close, a field enclosed.

CLOISE, adj. close, narrow, confined.

CLOMP, v. to walk heavily.

CLOOAS, sb. pL the pronunciation of clothes.

CLOSE, adj. parsimonious, stingy.

CLOT-COLD, adj. of a deadly coldness. A dead man is said to be dot-cold.

CLOUGH [cluff), sb. a common place-name near Sheffield.

Hunter gives it as 'a floodgate where water is artificially dammed up. ' But its usual meaning is a small narrow glen or ravine. ' The fifte of September they marched an 8 miles till they came to the peathes, a dough or valley, runnyng for a sixe myles Weaste.' Holinshed's Chronicles, ed. 1577, ii. 1616, col. 2. ' For making and setting a gate at the Guttering Clough Head, xvd.' T. T. A., 54. A man at Carlton, near Barnsley, spoke of making a dough (which he pronounced clow so as to rhyme with cow) by diverting a stream into an artificial channel and damming it up. A dough is a cleft of a rock or down the side of a hill.

CLOUT, sb. a kind of nail.

CLOUT, v. to strike or beat. See CLART.