BEARDED—“The bright and bearded barley.” It’s t’ awns o’ wheat, er barley, an’ seck an’ seck like.
BEARDED-WALL—A wall that has a thickness of sod on the top in which thorns are placed to keep cattle in er oot. We’d to git ower a bearded wo. “For bearding the Kirk-garth wo” forms one item in Morland Church Accounts.
BEASTINGS—The milk from a newly calved cow; there’s war things ner a beastin’ puddin’.
BEAT—To feed a fire with sticks, or turf, er owt else.
“His words of weight act like a charm,
On frozen hearts, and beat them warm.”—Whitehead.
BEESE, BEEAS—Cows. Gang an’ fetch t’ beeas in ta milk.
BED, BEDDING, BEDDIN’-UP—Bed t’ swine-hull wi’ saw-come. Breckins is good for beddin’. He was beddin’-up t’ nags.
BESSY-DOOKER—A watter bird wi’ a black back an’ a white breest. It dooks i’ t’ watter as it shuts away when it’s flayed.
BECK—Stream. A Lakeland lad ’ll know summat aboot a beck, Ah dar be bund, wharivver ye see him.