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cured herrin’s – herring, preserved by fermentation, or pickling, or smoking
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gang ageean wards – go ahead towards
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crammle aboon the grees – climb about the steps
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lack belly-timber sairly by the clock – I’m hungry, surely, it’s time
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lock, stock, and barrel – everything, all of it
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bairns – children
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a’belderin’ – crying
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touters – here: crooks
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skeer = scare
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hafflin – youth
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steans – tombstones
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acant – crooked
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scowderment – chaos, confusion
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jouped – jumbled
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Yabblins — possibly
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balm-bowl – chamber pot
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kirkgarth – churchyard
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consate — imagine
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be happed here – are buried here
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snod an’ snog – smooth and compact
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toom – empty
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baccabox – mouth
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aftest abaft – near stern
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bier-bank – churchyard path
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antherums – doubts
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jommling and jostling – jamming and pushing
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thruff-stone – a table-like tombstone covering the entire body
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gawm – understand
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acrewk’d – twisted
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lamiter – a deformed person
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the clegs and dowps – the flies and the crows
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Gabriel – archangel, messenger from God to people
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keckle – to cackle, to laugh
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aud – old
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daffled – beaten down
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abaft the krok-hooal — about the crock-hole (grave)
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caffin’ – joking
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The chafts will wag as they be used to — the chaps will laugh as they’re used to do
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dooal – pity
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mares tails — clouds in the form of thin, wispy strands
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lanthorns – the chambers at the top of lighthouses, surrounding the light
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mirabile dictu – amazingly (
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theyoungCasabianca – Giocante, young son of Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca, the captain of a French ship ‘Orient.’ During the Battle of the Nile in 1798 he remained at the burning ship not to leave his post without his father’s orders. Both of them and the remaining crew were killed in the explosion of the ship.
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wolds – woods on high ground
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cum grano – with a grain (
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sent a round robin – a petition or protest, having the signatures in a circle (not to guess the order of signing)
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Jack Sheppard – a famous London thief and gaol-breaker of the 18th century.
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kick the beam — to be of light weight or of misguided judgment
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virgin crants and maiden strewments – from William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet,’ Act 5, Stage 1.
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perfeshunal subjucts – professional subjects
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bloomin’ ’arf-quid – half-quid;
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dessay – dare say