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 125 Bunker headed. **Bunker headed fools." Gwinear. T.C. Bunt. The concavity of a sail, or of a fishing net. Bunting. Sifting flour. Burm. The Celtic Cornish word for, barm, or yeast. Burn. "A burn of hake." 21 hakes. Mousehole. Also, a pile of furze, a rick of hay. Burranet. The shell-drake. M.A.C. Burrow. See Barrow. Bush. An apparatus formed of two hoops at right angles, covered with white caHco ; used for signalling the position of a school of pilchards. Bushing corn. Beating out corn into a barrel by threshing bunches of it against the side of the barrel. No flail is used. Busken or Busk. The ''breast bone" of an old- fashioned stays. Formerly of wood, or whalebone, about two feet long, and two inches wide ! Busker. An " out and out " fisherman who dares all weathers. Busthious. See Boostis. Buss. A yearling calf still sucking. c. Bussa calf. A calf which in time weans itself. Pol- whele. BuSSa-head, or Buzza-head. A thick-head, an empty fool. From the Celtic Cornish Buzza a pan. A poor brain-'pan.