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ADDLE, v. to earn.
 * 'An old man, summoned for depositing parts of putrid fish on a vacant piece of land, said he removed the fish for a dealer, and he thought he was "addling a bob"'—Sheffield Petty Sessions, 1877.   L.

ADLAND, sb. a headland in a ploughed field.

AFEARD, adj. afraid.
 * 'Although this word is not yet obsolete, the form now more frequently heard is afreead (sometimes shortened to freead), which appears to be not so much a corruption of afraid as a cross between the two different words.' L.

AFORE, prep. and adv. before.

AFTER-CLAP, sb. an unexpected stroke.
 * 'Something ensuing on an action when it was thought that the deed itself and all its consequents were over; generally used of that which is primitive.' —Hunter's MS.

AGATE, adv. a-doing.
 * To get agate is to get to work: 'The washing is agate;' 'The brewing is agate;' 'He is always agate o' teasing me.'

AGATEARDS, adv. on the way with.
 * Hunter describes 'going agatewards' as 'the last office of hospitality, and necessary in many cases both for guidance and protection when the high-way lay at some distance from a friendly grange in an uninhabited and almost trackless country amidst woods and over morasses.'

AGDEN, in Bradfield.


 * 'A sheep pasture, called Agden, containing 346 acres.' —Harrison.
 * Aykeden in 10 Edward III. Eastwood's Ecclesfield, p. 65. The meaning is Oak Valley. Stunted oaks are numerous about Agden.

AGEAN [ageean] or AGEN, prep. against, by the side of, in an opposite direction to.
 * 'There is a peculiar provincial application of this preposition which I am not aware that any writer has noticed. It is used in the sense of close to, by the side of. If a blundering cricketer were to ask "Weer's t' bole?" the answer might be " Woy, clooas agen thi foot, mun."' L.

AGEE [ajee], adv. ajar, like a door. Hunter's MS.

AGGERHEADS, ''sb. pl.'' loggerheads.
 * 'He's an aggerheaded fellow' means he is a dull, stupid fellow.

AGIST [ajeist], v. to take cattle in to pasture for hire. See JISTE.

AHR [ar] pron. our.

AHRS [ars], pron. mine.
 * 'Tha should see ahrs' means you should see my husband.
 * 'Ahrs is gone to t' ale-us.'
 * I cannot ascertain that the husband speaks of his wife in the same way.