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Dust is another Northman's word. (Ice., dustra, to tilt, to 

 fight.) To " kick up a dust " is to create a disturbance, 

 to " live the strenuous life," and to bustle, hustle, and 

 be hustled ; and to have your jacket dusted is an opera- 

 tion, during which it is better to be out of the jacket 

 than in it, for something considerably harder and more 

 aggressive than a clothes brush is used. 



Esh is so call from the esh (ash) sapling, being the instru- 

 ment used by the castigator. A well-dried young esh 

 plant is a refined instrument of torture ; it is supple, and 

 twines lovingly round arms, back, or legs. It is the 

 thing par excellence for administering the " dusting " of 

 the jacket above referred to. 



Feeat — To foot, to kick. The West Riding and Lancashire 

 equivalent of this is " pawse," a truly terrible punish- 

 ment when carried out by means of heavy iron-bound 

 clogs. 



Fell — A knock-down blow. " If tha dizzen't mind (take 

 care), Ah sa'll be givin' tha a fell inoo " (soon). 



Fetch — To deliver a blow. You have doubtless noticed the 

 dialect use of the word "fetch," meaning to bring, not 

 to go for and bring. When we say a thing fetched ^20, 

 we mean that was the amount realised ; so when you 

 have been fetched a blow you realise something has 

 happened, and indeed you may have lost something 

 (equilibrium) while you gained perhaps two lovely black 

 eyes. Illustration : " Ah fetched him a crack ower heead, 

 an' that sattled him." 



A Filip is a quick, stinging blow, while a Gob-fight (literally 

 a mouth-fight) is a wordy quarrel, another edition of 

 Billingsgate ; but however, whenever, and by what 

 means did Gruellin' become bellicose ? 



Hammer — To flog severely. We all know, by experience or 

 knowledge, what a " hammerin' " is. Here no black- 

 smith's " stiddy " or cobbler's " lapstun " receives the 

 resounding blows, but cringing, human flesh that bears 

 the pain and the mark of the " hammerin' " for many a 

 day. 



Haze is another Viking word, indicating a beating or a 

 chastisement. The Holderness Glossary says "haze" 

 to beat, as with a hazel stick." This I doubt, for the 

 dialect pronunciation of "hazel" is " hezzle " (hezzle 

 peears, hezzle e'es, hezzle nuts) ; and the same Glossary 



