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BACKENING, sb. a relapse into illness.
- ' I hope he'll have no more backenings?
BACK-SIDE, sb. the back of a house.
BACK-SPITTLE, sb. a wooden shovel, with a small handle, used for turning oat-cakes.
BACK-US, sb. a bake-house. Similarly Brew-us, a brew-house; Malt-us, a malt-house.
- 'Edward Shewall for a garden a stede adcoynynge to the backsyde of the backhouse, viij d.'—T. T. A., 7.
- 'A kill, a back house, and another house.'—Harrison.
- 'A dwelling house and kitchen lying in Sheffield towne next unto the backhouse.'—Harrison.
- 'Mr. Mosley the bake-house in lease xx. li.' Rental in Sheffield Free Library, 1624.
- Evidently there was a public bake-house in Sheffield.
BADE, v. to bathe. Germ, badon.
- 'Come on, surrey, let's go an' bade us.'
BADGER, sb. a dealer in flour and corn.
- I have never heard this word used, but I have seen it used as a man's description in the Sheffield parish registers during the last century.
BADGER. A field in Dore is called 'Old Badger Limb.' See LUM.
BADLY, adv. unwell, in bad health.
BAFF, v. to bark in a low suppressed tone.
- When a dog hunts for game in a wood he is said to make a baffing noise. M.E. baffin, to bark.
BAGE [baighe], a flat piece of land, usually moorland.
- A tract of moorland between Dore and Hathersage is called Bage. 'Burbage bage is near Dore. Bage, a tract of land.' Sleigh. Whence the Derbyshire surname, Bagshaw. Perhaps akin to bache. See New Engl Dict. In Derbyshire a 'land' of curved or semi-circular shape is called a barge. These barges are much higher in the centre than ordinary 'lands' in a ploughed field. The earth on the top is deep, and is said to have been originally thrown up by the spade. The earth is thin and poor in the furrows, into which water drains.
BAGSHAW FIELD, in Ecclesall, anno 1807.
BAHN [barn] or BAHND, v. to go.
- 'I'm bahn to Heeley.'
BAHT [bart], prep. without.
- 'Way, thah ma go baht it.'
