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 8 THE DIALEOT OF and is used in making oat-bread. It is out or floored diagonally, so as to form diamonds of about one square inch in size. &e Haver- bread and Leather-cake. Bakstone (pronounced baksfn), the stone on which oat-cake is baked. Formerly little or no wheaten bread was used in this neigh- bourhood ; the haver-bread formed the great staple food ; and it was always thought a young woman was ineligible for marriage unless she were able to bake oat-bread. About 1825 a man was in the habit of hawking bak$fn$ ; he came from Saddleworth, and went along the street *8haattin' **hayercake haiM^nB"* He carried them on horse- back, edges upwards, balanced on each side of the animal. They are occasionally still hawked, but rarely^ as oat-bread is seldom made by any but public bakers. Balk (pronounced bauk)^ a large beam in a cottage or house roof ; or the beam of the scales, which is a weigh-&aZ^. Balk, in mowing : when some portion of the grass, &c. is left higher than the rest it is called a bcUk, Balk, vb, to leave such a portion. Kalliwell says a hoUk is a ridge of greensward left by the plough in ploughing, or by design between difiTerent occupancies in a common neld. BallaxLce, or perhaps Balanoe, a word used for valance : probably a mere corruption. Sally, belly, but now almost obsolete. The word occurs in Reli- gious Songs (Percy Society Edition of T?ie Owl and Nightingale), 13th century, in the form bali, Ballywark, belly-work ; the stomach-ache. Balm (pronounced borne) ^ the plant so called. Bambooze, to abuse, domineer oyer, push one about, &c. ' Au'm nooan baan to be hamboo^d wi' thee.' Forty years back this word was ' bamboozle.' Ban', L e, band = bound, the past tense of to bind. So in the BaUad of Kinmont Willie, yer. 3 : ' They band his legs beneath the steed, Tney tied his hands behind his back ; They guarded him fiyesome on each side, Ajid they brought him ower the liddel-rack.' Band, a particular kind of string made into round balls for weavers to tile gear with ; also any sort of string. Bandend, or Bandender, an indifferent article, such as an old horse. Bander, or Band chap, one of a band of musicians. Bank, a word commonly used for a hill, and especially to that portion traversed by a road: Almondbury Bank, Farnley Bank, ICilner Bank, Shelley Bank, Thurstonland Bank, &c.
 * It's a owd bandend on a horse, that,* meaning one almost finished.