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SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY. 51

COP, v. to catch.

COPER [koaper], sb. A.S. cypa t Dutch kooper^ merchant, trader. A 'horse-coper' is a horse-dealer.

COPING-STONES [coaping-stones], sb. pi. the stones which are put upon the top of a wall as a covering.

COPLEY PASTURES, fields in Sheffield Park. Harrison. COPPIN LANDS, fields in Ecclesfield. Harrison.

COPPY, sb. a coppice.

'Item she holdeth an intacke (pasture) lying between Rivelin coppy and Rivelin firth south. ' Harrison. ' Newland abas coppy. ' Ibid. ' Scales coppy, ' near Wentworth Park.

COPS, sb. pi. knotted wool from sheep.

CORBO or CORBOW, sb. a curved, hafted knife. It is sometimes called a Wharncliffe knife.

CORDWELL FARM, near Horsley Gate, Dronfield. O. M. CORF or COFE, the pronunciation of calf.

' Thear's a kah an a kofe to divoide amang noine on us.' Bywater, 23.

CORF, sb. a small wagon used in coal pits. Plural corves.

Hunter gives the singular as cork, but I cannot find that such a word exists. He also says 'It is used as a measure, so many corves making a load.' Hunter's MS.

CORKE WALLS, in Bradfield. See BAY.

' Halfe a tenement called Corke Walls Francis Wainewright hath the other half with a dwelling-house of 2 bayes and a barne and a part of a fold lying betweene Dungworth Com/won north and a highway south-west, and the halfe of the scite of this tenement contained ooa. oor. 2i^p.' 'An intacke called Corke Walls* adjoining the last piece and contain^ 2a. ir. 3o T 1 p. Harrison. It is afterwards called 'Corker Walls' and 'Corker

CORKY, adj. half-drunk.

A horse is said to go in a corky way, i.e., to step lightly.

CORN, sb. a leaf, a small quantity. ' A corn of tobacco.'

' He's an old nip-fig ; his finger nails are long enough to cut a corn of tea in two.'

CORN-CRAKE, sb. the landrail.

CORNISH, sb. a mantelshelf.

'Two candlesticks stans uppat cornish? Bywater, 153.

COTE, sb. a small shed for cattle, hens, pigs, &c.