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BELT, v. to shear the loose wool from sheep.
BELT, p. part. of to build.
BELTINGS, sb. pl. the loose wool shorn from sheep.
BEND-LEATHER, sb. a boy's phrase for a slide on a pond when the ice is thin and bends.
- There is a game on the ice called 'playing at bend-leather.' Whilst the boys are sliding they say 'Bend leather, bend leather, puff, puff, puff.'
BENK, sb. a bench. A.S. benc.
BENK, sb. a part of a bed of coal allotted to several colliers in a coal mine. See GOB.
BENNET FIELD, in Sheffield. The same as BENT.
- 'Bennet grange,' near Fulwood. O. M.
BENSIL or BENZIL, v. to drub.
- 'Bensillin,' a drubbing.
BENT GRASS, thick, tough grass, with somewhat broad leaves, growing on the moors.
- There is a place called Bents Green near Sheffield. It is in an elevated position, almost on the edge of the moors. In such a place reed-grass or sedge would be likely to grow. There is a Bents Lane in Cold-Aston, near Dronfield. Little Bentley (six acres) and Long Bentley (seven acres) are fields in Cold-Aston. In the same township is Bentley Hill. Cattle will not eat bent grass.
BENTY.
- 'Item Bentey feild lying &c.'—Harrison.
- Bent grass (see above) is often called benty grass. 'Benty hough croft,' in Ecclesall, anno 1807.
BERKE GREAVES. See GREAVE.
- 'A piece of wood ground called Berke greaves.'—Harrison.
- It means 'birch groves.' 'Birk greaves,' in 1807.
BERKIN DOLE.
- 'A close of pasture called Berkin dole lying next Crookesmoore.'
- Harrison.
BERKWIN SICKE, in Stannington. Harrison.
BERRIN', sb. a burying, funeral.
- 'In an Act of Parliament, 3 Henry VI., mention is made of berynes (so written) being long delayed. It may be a question whether with this ancient orthography and this traditional pronunciation the word is not rather to be derived from the word to bear than to bury. . . . As late as the time of Bagshaw, who had been one of the assistant ministers in Sheffield, and who died in 1702, clergymen and gentlemen actually bore the coffin on their shoulders.'—Hunters MS.
