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give it that name from a tradition that King Knut, or Canute, 

 once relieyed his hunger by it." Brockett. See Bat. 



Thornberry ISTorth and South — ^from fruit of Hawthorn, Cra- 

 tcegus Oxyacantha, or Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa. 



BrNK. 



"A walled and stepped mount, to enable a woman or infirm 

 man to get on horseback." Bell. . 



Used much when women rode on pillions behind their husbands 

 to market or elsewhere. 



^^ Binh, a bench, North. According to Kennett the linh of a 

 coal pit is ' the subterranean vault in a mine.' " Halliwell. This 

 is not so in the North, 



'■'■ BinTi, a bench. Common at the doors of cottages. Gener- 

 ally made of. stones or earth, planted on the top with camomile." 

 Engl. Dialect. Soc, Vol. I., Ser. B., East Yorkshire. 



A.-S. hano, Dan. hank, Sw. hank, a bench, seat. 



**Bink or Benk, a seat of stones, wood, or sods ; especially one 

 made against the front of a house. Sax. henc. Dan. hc&nk.'''' 

 Brockett. 



Bink, or benk, or bench is Scandinavian and A.-S. 



Examples are common in the villages. 



BiEK, 



Icel. and Suio-Got. and Swed., hjork; Dan., hirk ; Ger., hirke; 

 Dut. and Elem., herk ; A.-S., hirce, hyrce, heorce, here. Lye, a 

 Birch tree. Scot., ^/r/;, Birch, '^oi.^hedwen; (}q,q\., heitJie ; 1y., 

 heith; Manx., heith, hilley-heith. Lat., hetulaalha; It., hetulla ; 

 Sp., ahedul; Port., hetula, hetulla, vidoeiro ; Fr., hoileau. 



Birk is a Scandinavian, A.-S., and German word, derived by 

 Wachter from the German word to be bright, to shine. 



"Wachter, birche, transpositis Uteris quasi hriche dici potest, 

 a hrecJien lucere. Cf. Isl. hjartr, lucidus, candidus. 



Communis opinio est betulam a cortice nomen accepisse, sive 

 quia candente suo colore arbor conspicua, sive quia multiplici 

 corticis usus insignis est," Ihre, 



