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AHT [art], adv. out.

AKKER [acker], sb. an acre.

AKRAN [acran] or AKKARIN, sb. an acorn.

ALABLASTER, sb. alabaster.
 * 'Albastre, Alleblaster.'—Cotgrave.

ALDWARK, near Rotherham.
 * A.S. eald, old, and weorc, worc, work.

ALE FIELD, in Ecclesfield.
 * Harrison mentions 'the great Ale field' and 'the little Ale field.' This was the scene of the old 'church ales' and 'bride ales,' &c., in Ecclesfield. In the accounts of the churchwardens of this village for the year 1527 mention is made of 'the Kyrk Ayll.' (Eastwood's Ecclesfield, 170.)
 * See GAMS CROFT and MARTIN PYTLE. A field at the end of the town street of the village of Crookes is called 'Ale Croft.' From its position it would be very suitable for village games. A feast, or wake, is still kept up at Crookes on the first of May. See the Introduction.

ALEGAR [alligar], sb. malt vinegar. The g is hard.
 * 'Owd Dame Squarejoint's putten allegar in it.'—Bywater, 35.
 * A little field in a hole at Dore containing sour grass is called Alegar sick.

ALE-POSSET, sb. warm milk and beer sweetened.

ALE-SHOT, sb. a reckoning at the alehouse.

ALE-US, sb. an alehouse.

ALL, adv. quite.
 * 'He fell down and all dirtied his brat.'

ALLADS, interj.
 * 'Allads, Dicky!'—Bywater. 265.

ALL-ALONG, adv. in continuous course.
 * 'You have all along been my friend.'

ALL ALONG OF, prep. owing to.

ALLEY, sb. an alabaster taw used by boys in the game of marbles.
 * '"T'alli" is pre-eminently an inscriptionless tombstone opposite the chancel door of the Sheffield Parish Church, over which it was a favourite amusement of the Charity School boys, when the churchyard was used as their playground, to leap.' L. The stone was of alabaster. For the tradition as to this stone see Leader's Reminiscences of Old Sheffield, second edition, pp. 73, 169.

ALLEY LANDS, fields in Bradfield. Harrison.