BETTER-LEG—Many a yan says when they’re in a gurt hurry “Noo Ah mun put t’ better leg t’ first,” but if ye nobbut hinted ’at they’d tweea odd legs ye wad git some sauce frae them.
BEETLE-BATTLE—Bray a hard shirt soft.
BEAL—The lowing of cattle; crying; noise made by the wind. Ah’ll gie thi summut ta beal aboot.
BEALEN—Howling.
“Ya dismal, dark December neet,
When t’ wind in t’ chimley sood,
Com bealen doon of Cross Fell heets
A helm rough and loud.”—Whitehead.
BEALED—To call out through fear. Summat fell afront on him an’ he fair bealed oot.
BELLAR—A bull bellars when it wants to be queer. A barn whingen is bellarin’.