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46 SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY.

CLOUT, sb. a blow.

CLOY.

There is a phrase ' as drunk as cloy. ' I have also heard ' as drunk as Chloe. '

CLUB GARDENS. See FIFTY GARDENS. CLUBS, a cry to stop rough play. Hunter's MS.

CLUMPST or CLUMPED, adj. stiff with cold. Said of the hands. Hunter's MS.

CLUNCH, sb. a lump.

'He's got a clunch o' snow on his boot heel.'

CLUNCH, adj. churlish.

CLUSE WOOD, near Rotherham.

A.S. clus. 'Clowys, water schedynge.' Prompt. Parv.

CLUSSOM, v. to enfold, encircle, to squeeze. 'Cluzzum me to thee, lad!'

CLUTCHES, sb. pi gripes. H.

COACH-GATE, a road leading from Allen Street to Upperthorpe.

COARSE, adj. rough. Said of the weather.

COB, sb. a cake of bread.

COB, sb. the top.


 * The cob of the hill.'

COB-CASTLE, sb. a building over-topping those around it. H.

COBBER, sb. a great lie.

COBBLES or COBLINGS, sb.pl. small 'nuts' or lumps of coal.

COBBLE-STONE, sb. a rounded stone used to finish a wall. The same as 'coping stone.'

COBNAR WOOD, a place near Woodscats in Norton parish, on the top of a steep hill. Cop=ca#ut, culmen, top; knarre = tafor, vertex, top. See COB.

COB-NUT, sb. a game played as described in Halliwell's Archaic Diet.

_ The nuts were hardened for the purpose. When a nut was broken it was said to be cobbered or cobbled. Hunter defines cob-nut as ' a master nut.'