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bowk
▪ I. bowk, bouk local. (baʊk) [perh.:—OE. b{uacu}c bulging vessel, pitcher, also ‘belly’, see bouk, and cf. bucket.] † 1. A milk pail; a pail. Obs. or dial.c 1000 ælfric Judges vii. 20 Hi tobræcon þa bucas. 1663 P. Henry Diary 15 June (1882) 139 A mayd..who coming from milking fell down with the Bow...
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Bucket (machine part)
Common terms used in various parts of the world include: Bowk; Kibble; Hoppit; Hoppet.
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merribowk
† merribowk Obs. Also meribauk, merry bauks. [f. merry a. + bowk. Cf. sillibouk.] A sillibub or posset.1611 Cotgr., Laict aigre, whay; also, a sillibub, or merribowke. 1613 Beaum. & Fl. Coxcomb iii. iii. (1647) 108/2 And can you milke a Cow? and make a merrybush [? read-buck or -bouk]? 1664 O. Heywo...
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bouke
▪ I. bouk Now only Sc. and dial. Forms: 1–3 b{uacu}c, 2–4 buke, 3–4 book, 3–6 bouke, 5 bowke, 6 buike, 7 buick, 8–9 buik, 4– bouk. [OE. b{uacu}c belly = OS. bûc, Du. buik, OHG. bûh, bûch, MHG. bûch, mod.G. bauch belly, ON. bûk-r trunk of the body:—OTeut. *bûko-z. The prevailing sense in ME. is the s...
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Six Bells Colliery
On 9 February 1895 four men lost their lives during the shaft sinking, when the bowk (large barrel) in which they were riding capsized, and they fell to
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Coal mining in the Black Country
The miners digging out the shaft were lowered down in the bowk. The bowk was also used to remove the spoil as it was dug out and the shaft was then lined with brickwork.
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bolk
▪ I. † bolk, v. Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 4–6 bolke, 5 bulk, 5–6 bulke, 6 bolk, bolck, balk, balck, (Sc.) bok; (north.) 6–8 boke, bock, 7– boak, bouk, bowk. [ME. bolk-en, cogn. w. mod.G. bolken, bölken ‘to roar, bawl’, and Du. bulken ‘to bellow’; f. same root as belch; pointing to an OTeut. ablaut seri...
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rannel-balk
ˈrannel-balk north. dial. = rannel-tree.1790 Grose Provincial Gloss. (ed. 2) sig. K4, Rannel-tree, cross-beam in a chimney, on which the crook hangs; sometimes called Rannebauk; North. 1817 Edin. Monthly Mag. June 241 The rusticity of their benisons amused me.—One wished them, ‘thumpin luck and fat ...
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Central Scots
Vocalisation to often occurs before , for example bowk (retch), howk (dig) often written boak and hoak in dialect writing.
ui, the usual literary spelling
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bulke
▪ I. bulk, n.1 (bʌlk) Forms: 5 bolk(e, 5–7 bulke, 6 bulcke, boulke, bowlke, (5–6, 9 Sc. bowk, see bouk), 7 bulck, (boak), 6– bulk. [Of complicated etymology. The coincidence in meaning with ON. *bulki, Icel. b{uacu}lki ‘heap, cargo of a ship’ (Vigf.), Da. bulk lump, clod (cf. mod.Icel. b{uacu}lka-st...
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Deep Navigation Colliery
On 12 December 1884, five men descended the No.2 South shaft in a bowk to replace some . Thomas John Dobbs, who had been guiding the bowk down a guide rope, managed to slowly lowered himself to within hailing distance of pit bottom, and was
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bucket
▪ I. bucket, n.1 (ˈbʌkɪt) Forms: 3–4 bocket(t, 4 bukket, 4–6 boket(t, 5 buket(t, 5–6 buckette, 3– bucket. [Etymology uncertain: app. a. OF. buket washing tub, milk-pail (Godef. s.v. buquet); cf. OE. b{uacu}c ‘lagena’, bowk.] 1. a. ‘The vessel in which water is drawn out of a well.’ b. ‘The vessels i...
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Cumbrian dialect
going to work)
yam home, as in: as garn yam (I'm going home)
yat gate
yhuk hook ("yuk es a wurm on't yhuk" / throw me a worm on the hook)
Verbs
beal cry
bowk
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lorrykeet
▪ I. lorry, n. (ˈlɒrɪ, ˈlʌrɪ) Also 9 lorrie, lurrie, larry, lurry. [Of obscure etymology; cf. dial. lurry to pull, drag.] 1. a. A long flat wagon without sides running on four low wheels. Also, a truck or wagon used on railways or tramways.1838 Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 115/1 There was a luggage...
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over-wind
over-wind, v. (ˌəʊvəˈwaɪnd) [over- 26.] trans. To wind too tight, as in tuning a musical instrument; to wind (a watch, or other mechanism) beyond the stop or point at which it is fully wound up; to wind too far; in Mining, to wind (the rope or chain bearing the cage) above its proper place so that t...
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