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48 SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY.

COCKSHUTTS, sb. pi.

A farm near Beauchief Abbey is called Cockshutts Farm. There is also another place bearing this name near Lees Hall, in Norton parish. 'Cock- shut Closes,' in Thorpe Hesley. Palsgrave has Cockesshote to take wod- cockes vrithuotee.' Cotgrave has 'royztlet, a ginne or deuise to catch woodcocks. ' ' Item a spring wood of twenty-four years' groweth called Cock- shott rowe, lying betweene piper lane in part and Pitts moore in part.' Harri- son. This wood contained 51 a. 2r. i6p.

COCKSTANG, sb. a hand-barrow for carrying hay, &c. It is carried by two men like a Sedan chair.

COCK-STRIDE, sb. a considerable length. I have heard these lines :

' At New Year's tide Days lengthen a cock-stride. '

COCK-TAIL, adj. fresh and foaming. Only applied to beer.

Mather has a song called * The Cock-tail Lady.' A part of Furnace Hill is called ' the Cocktail'

COCK-THROW, sb. a three-legged piece of wood used to support the shafts of a cart when the horses are taken out.

COCK-WEB, sb. a cobweb.

COCKWELL.

'A place called Cockivell hill,' near Shefield. Hunter's Hallamshire, p.

12.

COCKY, adj. proud.

COD, sb. a pod of beans, peas, &c.

CODDLE, v. to boil or stew fruit.

When apples are roasted in the oven they are said to be coddled. Goose- berries boiled in a saucepan, with sugar and milk, are said to be coddled. Coddled peas are peas cooked like chestnuts. They are put into a tin and stewed in a hot oven.

CODDLER, sb.

When a boy has lost all his marbles, he will say ' Give me a coddler (i.e., a marble to start with), and I'll play again.'

COG, v. to beat or hammer iron ; also to beat a person. COGGER, sb. a fighter. COGGING, sb. a thrashing.

COIL, sb. coal.

'In a lease of the Prior of Bretton to a Wentworth in the reign of Henry VIII. the word is throughout written coylle? H.
 * Coy lie, calculus, carbo.' Cath. Angl.