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BARK, sb. a candle box made of tin. H. and L.

BARK, v. to cake, to encrust.

BARKLE, v. idem. Said of dried blood not washed off.

BARLEY, v. to appropriate, reserve.
 * 'Barley me this;' I claim this as mine.
 * 'Used among schoolboys to assert a prior claim to or rather possession of what was previously in common, as a good bearing hazel tree in a nutting expedition. But then the person who so cries out must be the first finder.'
 * Hunter's MS.

BARLEY HAGGS, fields in Ecclesfield. Harrison. See HAG.

BARLOW, a village near Dronfield.

BARLOW KNIVES, sb. pl. pocket knives with long 'bolsters' and one blade. They were named after one Barlow who first made them.

BARM-DUMPLINGS, sb. pl. boiled dough by means of yeast made light.
 * 'Common dough made up in balls and boiled.'—Hunter's MS.

BARME-SKIN, sb. a high leathern apron worn by workmen.

BARMY, adj. silly.

BARNES FARM, in Dronfield. Anciently written Semes.

BARRING-OUT, sb. a yearly custom amongst schoolboys of barring or excluding the schoolmaster from school on a particular day. It was common at Dronfield, and Hunter gives an instance from Bolsterston school in 1720.

BARRON LANE, in Bradfield.
 * 'An intacke called Barron lane.'—Harrison. Johannes Baron of Handsworth in 1379.—Poll Tax Returns.

BASE GREEN, near Gleadless.

BASS, sb. a workman's wallet or basket.
 * A light, limp basket for carrying joiners' tools, vegetables, fish, &c. Also a hassock.

BASSET or BASSET EDGE, sb. an outcrop of coal, &c.

BASSET COTTAGES, near Sheffield. O. M.

BASSINGTHORPE, near Kimberworth.

BASTARD, adj. barren, poor.
 * Land is said to be bastard when it will not yield a crop.