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SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY. 49

COKELY CROFT, in Cold-Aston.

COKER. * Nether Coker,' a field of nearly one acre in EcclesalJ, anno 1807.

COLCH, sb. a loud and startling noise; also a smart blow.

COLCHER, sb. a heavy fall.


 * He came a regular catcher. '

COLD-ASTON, the name of a hamlet in Dronfield parish.

It is called simply Estune in Domesday, the prefix Cold not being used before the fourteenth century. See my derivation from coaled, meaning blackened, in Notes and Queries (6th S. xi. 122). To what I have there said I will add that Cotgrave has ' charbonne, painted, marked, written with a coale; followed, smeered, blacked with coales, hence also, darkened.' The woods in the neighbourhood were much 'coaled, ' that is, burnt for making char- coal. The trade of the carbonarius lignarius (wood collier) appears to be the most frequent occupation in the Norton Parish Register. There is a ' Black Piece' wood in the township. In describing the wealth of Sheffield Manor, Harrison says, ' There may be within this manner raised iron worke w/fo'ch would afford vnto the Lord (as is thought) a thousand pounds yearly and all charges discharged, and for the maintaineing of this worke there are within this [manor] 2 thousand acres of wood and timber (besides Sheffeild Parke) whereof there are above 16 hundred acres of spring woods, besides great store of old trees fit for no other purpose but for the making of charkehole. ' In Harrison's time the Lord of the Manor of Sheffield received .103. 8s. od. yearly 'for windfall wood and diging up of old roots for charcoales.' And see BLACKO PLAINE. It will have been seen that ass=ashes, cinders, in the Sheffield dialect. From the analogy of many other names in this glossary, such as Grimethorpe, Aston would appear to mean 'cinder town.'

COLD-FIRE, sb. a fire laid ready for lighting. COLD-WELL.

' A well called Cold Well lying next Grimesthorp greene.' Harrison. Several fields at Carlton, near Barnsley, are called CoidwcU.

COLKE [coke], sb. the core of an apple, &c.

'Acolke; erula (interior pars pomi. A.).' Cath. Angl.

COLLAR, v. to entangle.

When a grinder's belt or band gets twisted round the shafting it is said to be collared or a-collar.

COLLARED, adj. smeared with black dirt, particularly soot, dirt from the fire.

^ 'Your face is all collared. . . . The r has gained a firm footing in this word in Hallamshire, but in Shropshire callow is still the word for smut, black dirt.' Hunter's MS.

COLLIFOBBLE, v. to cheat. COLLIWOBBLES, sb. pi pain in the bowels. ,