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ALMONDBURT AND HUDDBRSFIELD. 27 And such substitutes are no doubt more common than this glossary intimates. I have marked it only in the word particularly pointed out to me. Cleek, to catch hold of; to snatch. Cleg, the grey horse-fly : but the word not much known here. Cletchy a brood of chickens, ducklings, &c. dever, sharp, or brisk, bodily as well as mentally. * He's a clever looking child/ i, e. looks active. Clioks, sb. the hooks used for moving packs of wool. Clock, vh. n, to cluck. A clocking hen = a brooding hen, a heu desirous of sitting before the eggs are given her. Clookfl, beetles, chafers, &c. Clogs, shoes with wooden soles, still much worn : they are particu- larly useful in the feu^tories where dyeing is going on. Cloise, or C15is, a close, or field. Cloke (spelling doubtful), the nail or claw of a cat. Cluke in the same sense is found in the Upland Mouse and the Burgess Mouse :

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She dam so high that Gmbert might not get her, Syne by the duke there craftily can hing Till he was gane, her cheer was all the better.' — ^1L176 -179. Gilbert was the cat. Trefoil is called catduke, from its fancied resemblance to a cat*s paw. See G. Douglas's Prologue to 12 th Book of Virgil's ^neid, 1. 116, Skeafs edition of 8pecime7U of English Literature: ' The clavyr, ccUduJce, and the cammamyld,' i. e, clover, trefoil, and camomile. Cloke, to scratch. ' The cat cloked me,' t. e, clawed or scratted me. Chuch in Lincolnshire is to catch, or dutch. Clongh (pronounced duff), a ravine, or narrow glen. Much used in names of localities, as Thydoughy Clough Hall, &c. Connected with deave. Above Marsden the word is doi>s» Clowen, past participle of deave* Clumb (pronounced dum), past participle of climh, Clnther. ' Folks cluther round t' fire i* winter.* Cobble, to stone, or throw a stone. No doubt derived from cobble, a round stone. Cobbler, a piece of cloth which has to be finished over again. Cobbler, or Cobblini a large coal. Cookalofty high up ; puffed up ; conceited.