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 28 THE DIALECT OF Cocker, conceit. Cocker, vh, to pamper. Cockerate, to brag. * He wanted to cockercUe ovver me.' Cocket, merry, &c. Ilalliwell says swaggering or pert; Eay says brisk, malapert. Cockled (pronounced eockVd), said of worsted cloth which, has gone into lumps. Cocklety, applied to what is likely to tumble or fall off. * A woman a' horseback is a cocklety sort on a thing.' Cookstangs, %. e. haycock stangs, two sticks, or poles, used to con- vey haycocks in dearth of cart^ or when the ground was too steep for a cart to be used. Cod, or Codde, a pillow, or cushion. It seems rather uncertain whether this word has been known in the dialect of late years. One person asserts it was certainly used in the above sense about thirty- nve or forty years ago; anomer, who is an older man, declares he has no recollection of ii A horsecodde is a horse-collar; and B.peascodj or peacod, is so called from its resemblance to a pillow. Coddar, or Codder, a saddler or harness-maker. Coddar, or Codder, the name given to a football, but apparently passing out of use, though still well known. See Preface, ' FootbaU.' Cog^glin, t. e, coggUng; perhaps cockling, likely to fall off. Coil, the pronunciation of the word coal. See Letters Oa (2) and Oe. HuDter says, 'In a lease of the prior of Bretton to a Wentworth in the reign of Henry YII. the word is throughout written coylle,* In ' Creatio * {Tovmeley MyBteries) one of the demons says, ' Now are waxen blak as any coylleJ But after all these passages only prove that the word was pronounced then as now in this neigh- bourhood, and that these were simply instances of phonetic spelling, for onal occurs in the Early Enghsh Psalter, Ps. xvii 9, spelt koU : Colt, the pronunciation of coat; also of cote for pigeons, &c. When George Lord Dartmouth came into possession of the Woodsome estate, he visited that portion near the Grammar School, went into a farm- yard, and began to cross over the land. The farmer, seeing a tres- paBser, a stranger to him, went to his door and called out, * Hullo I ney I coom thee back; a felly with a sooid cait on lank thee owt to know better nor to trespass on folks's land! ' His lordship craved pardon and withdrew. When the tenant afterwards learnt it was his landlord, he was mudi troubled, but the matter passed over. Cold pig, a term used by manufacturers for returned goods which hang upon hand; also by newsagents in case of a surplus of news- papers, magazines, &c. Pouring water over any one in bed is ' treating him to cold pig,*
 * Koles that ware dounfalland' (falling down).