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SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY. 57

CROW TO PULL.

The phrase * I have a crow to pull with you ' means I have a quarrel to make up with you.

CROZE, sb. a sharp cutting instrument used by coopers for cutting the groove or inlet at the ends of a cask, into which the ends are fitted.

CROZE-STOCK, sb. the wooden handle into which a croze (g.v.) is fitted.

CROZZIL, sb. a cinder only partly burnt. CRUDDLE, v. to curdle. CRUDE SICK, a field in Dore. CRUDS, sb. pi. curds. CRUNCH, v. to crush or chew up. CUCK, v. to throw.

CUCK-BALL, sb. a game at ball. The same as Pize-ball (q.v.). It is sometimes called Tut-ball.

CUCKOLD-HAVEN, a place near Ridgeway. O. M. Cf. Cuckolds Haven, in Firbeck, West Riding.

CUCKOO-GRASS, Luzula campestris.

CUCKOO SPIT, sb. white froth on leaves, enclosing the insect Cicada spumaria.

CUDDLE-ME-BUFF, sb. an intoxicating liquor.

' Hot cuddle-me-buff was the liquor. '

Mather's Songs, 77. See BUFF.

CUMBERLEY, adj. cumbrous, awkward.

CUPELOW [kewpylow], sb. a cupola, a smelting furnace for iron or lead.

CUPTY, sb. a slow ball bowled in the game of cricket, which is easy to hit at.

CURCHY, sb. a curtsey.

CURRANS, sb. pi. currants, the fruit of the garden currant.

CUSH, a call by cowherds to cows when they want them to come home to be milked.