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SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY. 47

COCK-A-HOOP, adj. exulting. Hunter *s MS.

COCKED HAT FIELD, on the summit of the hill above Whirlow Hall.

There is a Cocked Hat at Crookes. See the Introduction. Bateman opened a large barrow near the town of Leek called Cock low. Ten Years' Diggings, p. 183.

COCKER, v. to domineer, to lord it. COCKEREL, sb. a young cock. COCKET, adj. merry. COCK-EYE, sb. a squinting eye.

COCKLANDS.

'A close of arable land and bushes called Blacklands and Cocklands Bushes lying betweene Cowley lane south,' &c., in Ecclesfield. Harrison. Probably M.E. cocke, German kocke, a heap.

COCKLE, v. to wrinkle. Said of woollen goods when they have been rained upon.

COCKLES OF THE HEART, sb. pi.

This phrase is frequently heard, but it defies definition. In 1857 Alder- man Bradley, of Sheffield, said that 'he brewed ale to warm the cockles o/ their hearts and make them work better.' Wilson's Note to Mather's Songs, P- 53-

COCKLETY, adj. unsteady, standing on a precarious balance. COCKLETY-BREAD, sb.

'The moulding [of] cocklety-bread is a sport amongst hoydenish girls not quite extinct. It consists in sitting on the ground, raising the knees and clasping them with the hands, and then using an undulatory motion as if they were kneading dough, accompanying the motion with a chant of which the following are the words :

My granny is sick and now is dead,

And we'll go mould some cocklety-bread;

Up with the heels and down with the head,

And that is the way to make cocklety-bread.

It comes from the depths of antiquity, and had formerly a purpose beyond what now belongs to it when it is merely a sport, somewhat wanton. For dough thus moulded when baked was given as a love charm. This appears from one of the questions in the Penetentiale of Burchard, Bishop of Worms, who lived under the Emperor Henry, A.D. 1020, as I find in Aubrey's Remains of Gentilism* Hunter s MS.

COCK LODGES.

' A meadow called Cock Lodges lying next unto Loxley Water. ' Harrison.

COCKLOFT, sb. a garret.

COCK-PIT, sb. the name of a piece of uninclosed land in Dore.