JAUP, 8. the sound of water agitated in a narrow or irregular vessel. Isl. gialfur, a hissing or roaring wave? JAUP, to strike, to chip or break by a gentle, though sudden blow. Jauping paste-eggs at Easter, is a youthful amusement in Newcastle and the neighbourhood. One boy, holding an egg in his hand, challenges another to give blow for blow. One of the eggs is sure to be fractured in the conflict, and its shattered remains become the spoil of the conqueror.

JEE, v. to move to one side. Swed. gaa, to turn round.—JEE, a. crooked, awry.

JEEPS, a severe beating-a sound thrashing.

JENK, to jaunt, to ramble. From junket, to feast secretly. JENNY-HOWLET, the tawny owl; very clamorous at night, and easily known by its hooting.

When the gray howlet has three times hoo'd,
When the grimy cat has three times mewed.

Witches' Gathering Hymn.

JESP, a hole or rent in cloth. Isl. geispi, oscitatio.

JEWEL, an expression of affection-familiar regard. Fr. mon joie, provincially maw jewel! It is also Irish.

Ye jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes
Cordelia leaves you.-Shak. King Lear.

JIGGER, an airy swaggering person.
haps, originally, one disposed or suitable to a jig.
JIM, a. slender, neat, elegant. See GIMP, or JIMP.
JIMMER, a small hinge for a closet door or desk.
nation of jimmers, with which the gimmal ring is
connected, in Brand's Pop. Ant. Vol. II., p. 27.
Gloss. gimmal; and Moor, jimmers.

"A comical jigger." Per

See an explathought to be Also Nares'

JINGLE-CAP, shake cap. A game much practised among the

young pitmen and keelmen. Sc. jingle-the-bonnet.

JINK, v. to jingle.—JINK, s. a clink, or sharp rattle.

JINKERS, BY JINKERS, a sort of demi-oath. From jingo.

JINNY-SPINNER, a very long slender-legged fly.

JOCKALEGS, the same as JACKALEGS; which see. In Meyrick's Glossary of military terms of the middle ages, I find “ Jockelys, a strong knife with two blades." Our modern jockalegs, however, has only one blade. JOCK AND JOCK'S-MAN, a juvenile sport, in which the bon camarada is to repeat all the pranks which the leader can perform. See the Tale of "Master and Man," in the Irish Fairy Legends. See, also, a long list of youthful games-many of them common in the North of England-in Moor's Suffolk words, move all.

JOGGLE, to cause to totter. Teut. schockelen, vacillare. JOLLY, fat, stout, large in person. "A jolly landlady." Jook, to crouch or stoop suddenly, as if to avoid a blow. JOOKINGS, corn beat out of the sheaf in throwing off the stack; often a perquisite to those who assist in carrying the sheaves into the barn.

JORUM, a pot or jug full of something to drink. Chaucer has jordane, and Shakspeare jorden; both in the sense of a chamber substitute pour le jardin.

The horrible crew,

That Hercules slew,

Were Poverty-Calumny-Trouble--and Fear:
Such a club would you borrow,

To drive away sorrow,

Apply for a jorum of Newcastle beer.—Cunningham.

JOSKIN, a mason's labourer. V. Jam. Supp. jaskin. JOUKEREY-PAUKEREY, any sort of underhand trick or dexterous roguery, artifice, legerdemain. A friend in Edinburgh says, this phrase is derived from the two Scots words jouk, to elude, and paukie, cunning, sly—the essential requisites of a juggler. JowL, v. to knock, or rather to give a signal by knocking. JUBATION, a severe lecture, or reprimand. Lat. jubeo. JUG, to go to rest; as partridges when they roost on the ground. Su.-Got. huka, avium more reclinare. Serenius.

JUMP-WITH, JUMP-IN-WITH, to meet with accidentally, to coincide. Jump occurs several times in Shakspeare; meaning in

some places to agree with, in others to venture at, or hazard. In one place it appears to be intended for just. JURNUT, an earth-nut. The same as ARNUT; which see.

JUST-NOW, adv. presently. In the South, by and by.

JYE, to stir, to turn round.

"I cannot jye my neck, its so stiff."

—JYE, a. awry, crooked.

See JEE.

K.

KAE! an interjectional expression of disbelief, contempt, or abhorrence; very common in Newcastle.

KAIL, cabbage, greens.-North. Isl. kal. Dan. kaal. Swed. kål. Welsh, cawl. See Appendix to Johnstone's Antiquitates Celto-Scandicæ, p. 276.

KAIL, broth or pottage. V. Jam. Supp. kail, 2d. sense, There is a place in Newcastle called the Kail-cross; where broth was sold in former times.

games. "It's

KAIL, a turn; so used among school-boys in their my kail." KAIL-GARTH, a kitchen-garden-a cabbage-garth-though often adorned with a profusion of flowers. Swed. kålgård.

KAIL-POT, a large metal pot for culinary purposes; originally, as Grose explains it, a pottage pot.

KAIRN, the same as CAIRN; which see.

KAME, K'YAME, a comb. Sax. camb. Dan, kam. Sc. kaim. KAMSTARY, mad. Perhaps the same as Sc. camsterie, camstairie, froward, perverse, unmanageable; which Dr. Jamieson derives from Germ. kamp, and starrig stiff; or it may be a sort of pleonasm, from cam, which in Gael. is applied to any thing crooked or awry, and stary, staring, wild-looking.

KARL-CAT, OF CARL-CAT, a male cat. Sax. carl, masculus. KARL-HEMP, or CARL-HEMP, the largest stalk of hemp-that which bears the seed.

KECKLE, to cackle, to laugh aloud. V. Jam. kekkil,

KEDGE, to fill, to stuff. Hence, Kedge-belly, a large protuberant body, a glutton.

KEE, KEE-SIDE, emphatically the Newcastle Quay, extending from Tyne Bridge to the end of Sandgate.

Fareweel Tyne Brig and cannie kee.

Gilchrist, Voyage to Lunnin.

KEEK, to peep, to look with a prying eye, to view slyly. Su.-
Got. kika, intentis oculis videre. Dan. kige.
Dut. kijken.
KEEL, v. to cool, to render cool. Sax. cælan, algere. Sir Thos.
Hanmer at best but a sorry expounder of our immortal bard
-in attempting an explanation of

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

Shak. Love's Labour's Lost.

strangely says, to drink so deep, as to turn up the bottom of the pot, like turning up the keel of a ship!" Major Moor is equally in error:-he thinks "scouring the pot with its bottom inclined conveniently for that operation; or keeling it in the position of a ship rolling so as to almost show her keel out of the water." V. Suffolk Words, killer or keeler. The expression "keel the pot," really means neither more nor less than to render it cool; that is, to take out a small quantity of the broth, &c., and then to fill up the pot with cold water; a common practice in Northumberland. Another mode of keeling the pot-and my friend, Mr. Raine, says, by far the most frequent one-is by raising a ladle full of the boiling liquid, which, after being exposed to the air for a few moments, is returned to its place. When this is done five or six times, in rapid succession, the boiling over is for a while effectually put a stop to. The word, however, as shown by the examples from Gower and Chaucer, quoted by Mr. Todd, is not confined to the kitchen.

KEEL, S. ruddle, decomposed iron used for marking sheep, &c. Gael. cil. Fr. chaille. Jamieson.

KEEL, a low, flat vessel or barge, in which coals are carried from

the colliery-staiths to the ships, in the Tyne and Wear. Keel

is a very ancient name, of Saxon origin, for a ship or vesselceol, navis-though now restricted to mean the bottom only. On the first arrival of the Saxons they came over in three large ships, styled by themselves, as Verstegan informs us, keeles. In the Chartulary of Tynemouth Monastery, the servants of the Prior who wrought in the barges (1378), are called kelers, an appellation plainly synonymous with the present keelmen, or persons who navigate the keels.

KEEL-OF-COALS, 8 Newcastle chaldrons-21 tons, 4 cwt. KEEL-BULLIES, the keelmen, or crew of the keel-the partners, or comrades in the vessel. See BULLY.

KEEL-DEETERS, the wives and daughters of the keelmen, who sweep the keels, having the sweepings of the small coals for their pains. To deet, or dight, in Northern language, means to wipe or make clean. See DEET.

KEELAGE, keel dues in port-payment of custom for every keel

or bottom that enters a harbour. This word is in Todd's Johnson, but in too limited a sense.

KEELY-VINE, a black-lead pencil. See Monthly Mag. Vol. VI., p. 434. See, also, Jam. Supp.

KEEN, a chap. The hands are said to be keened, when the skin

is broken or cracked by the frost, and a sore induced. KEEN, is also used by the lower classes for caustic applied to wens or ulcers; probably from the pain it occasions. KEEP-THE-POT-BOILING, a common metaphorical expression among young people, when they are anxious to carry on their gambols with more than ordinary spirit.

KELD, the still part of a river, which has an oily smoothness

while the rest of the water is ruffled. I have only heard this word on the Tyne, and confined to the meaning here given ; but a friend, who lately visited Ullswater, informs me, that when the day is uniformly overcast, and the air perfectly still, that lake has its surface dappled with a smooth, oily appearance, which is called a keld. The word is also, I find, a common term in Yorkshire, Westmorland, and Cumberland, for a well or spring. Isl. kelda, palus.