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 76 THK DIALECT OF Lake, eh. a game. The word is common in Early English. It ia the origin of the word lark, which is sometimes also nsed here. Bcdiind the choir-stalls of Carlisle Cathedral is a series of ancient paintings illustrating the legends of St. Anthony, St. Cuthbert, and St. Au^tine. On the first of those relating to St Cuthbert is this inscription : As S. Beds i' hys story says.' An ancient dame who lived at Sharp Lane end, being of an econo- mical turn of mind, was fond of knittmg, and said one evening at the conclusion of her labours, 'Au ha' burnt a hopenny cannle, and addled a fieurdin — it's better nor lakin,^ Lakina, L e. lakings, sh, games ; also toys, or playthings. Lam, vh. to beat, or thrash. Lammin, i. a. lamming, a beating. * Au'U gie thee a gooid lammin.* Lams, sb. pieces of wood in a loom, connected with the treadles by strings, which are connected also with the jctcks (above) in a similar way, and work the yelds, Lang, adj, long. Lang larenee, t. e. Long Lawrence; also Long lorren, Long lawrenty and Lorrixner, an instrument marked with signs, a sort of teetotum. A long latorence now before me is about three inches long, some- thing like a short ruler with eight sides ; occasionally they nave but four. On one side are ten x'b or crosses, forming a kind of lattice work ; on the next to the left three double cuts, or strokes, passing straight across in the direction of the breadth ; on the third a zigzag of tlu-ee strokes one way, and two or three the other, forming^ a w with an additional stroke, or a triple i; ; on the fourth, three single bars, one at each end, and one in we middle as in No. 2, where they are doubled. Then the four devices are repeated in the same order. The game, formerlv popular at Christmas, can be played by any number of persons. Each has a bank of pins, or other small matters. A pool IB formed. Then in turns each rolls the long lawrence. If No. 1 comes up the player cries ^ Flm^,' and takes the pool ; if No. 2, he puts down two pins ; if No. 3, he says ' Lave all,' and neither takes nor gives ; if No. 4, he picks up one. The sides are considered to bear the names, ' Flush — Fut daan two — Lave all — Sam up one.' It has been suggested that tiie name Laiorence may have arisen from the marks scored on the instrument, not unlike the bars of a gridiron, on which the Saint perished. Lang saddle, or Lang settle, sb, a long wooden seat with a back, such as are seen in public-houses. [A.S. ieU, a seat— W. W. S.] Lant, sb, a word not unknown here, but doubtful whether it belongs to the dialect. The substance is more usually called 'weetin'* (wetting), or ' old waish ' (wae^) ; the former word being the more common. It is urine, much used in cleansing doth. Bay says the
 * Her Cuthbert was forbid layke and plays.