24 THE DIALECT 07 took place on any other oooaaion. Cha^ ranks lower than * man ' and higher than * felly.' Charks, ciacks in the hands ; chaps ; chilblains. Charky. Said of a man in liquor. ' Tha a't getten yarry eharky* alluding to his talking too much; possibly connected with the preceding. Checkstone, the name of a game played by children, similar to the dibs of the south and the talus of the Bomans. A set of checks con- sists of five cubes, each about half an inch at the edge, and a ball, the sisse of a moderate bagatelle ball ; all made of pot. They are called checksUmeSf and the game is thus played. Yon throw down the cubes all at once, then toss the ball, and during its being in the air ^ther up one stone in your right hand and catch the descending ball m the same. Put down the stone and repeat the operation, gathering two stones, then three, then four, till at last you haye ' sammed up ' all the fiye at once, and haye succeeded in catching the ball. In case of jGulure you haye to begin all oyer again. In Nashe's Lenten Stuffe (1599) occurs the following : * Yet towards Cock-crowing she caught a little slumber, and then she dreamed that Leander and she were playing at checkstone with pearls in the bottom of the sea.* Cheese and bread, the expression generally used instead of bread and cheese. The tender shoots of the thorn used to be called cheew and bread. Cheet, to creak ; to chirp, &c. ' Shoes clieet as you walk.' Birds cheet, and it is said specially of a robin, as winter approaches. Halli- well giyes the word * cheep,' to chirp. If shoes cheet they are supposed not to haye been paid for. Toun^ pigeons, for about the four fii-st weeks of their existence, are inyanably called cheeters in Yorkshire — ' squeakers ' elsewhere. Chelter'd blood is clotted blood. Chersen {gh kers-n), to christen. When a friend of mine was pass- ing oyer Gowms by the footway, a decent-looking woman called out,
- Hullo, hullo ! stop yo I ' He pulled up, * An*t you Bui-ton
paarson ? ' * No.' * On, Au thought yo had,* * Why did you think BO ? ' * Yo'd a black coit i* yer back lawk a paarson.' * What did you want ? ' ' Au wanted him to cJieraen a chauld.' CherBinas, or Chersmis (with ch as k the pronunciation of Christmas. See Preface, * Christmas.' Chesses, the forms for children to sit on in school. I haye only met with this once. [The phrase ' three chesses or rowes ' occurs in Fitz- herbert's Hvuibandry (note to section 125, 1. 4), edited by me for the E. D. S.— W. W. S*] Chevil hen, or Chiyil hen^ the smaller Eedpole, FringiUa linariou Childer, children. Chin eough. See Kink oougL
