Botolph’s, subs. (The Leys).—A “Run” to St. Botolph’s Church.
Bottle, verb (Durham: obsolete).—To make hot: e.g. I got regularly BOTTLED in that room; specifically, “to roast” a boy before a fire. See Appendix.
Bottled. To be bottled, verb. phr. (Sherborne).—To be turned in work.
Bottom-side, subs. (Harrow).—A wing: at football. The lower wing (if one be lower than the other); as a rule the one farthest from the hill.
Boule, subs. (Charterhouse).—A general confab or conversation. See Privee.
1900. Tod, Charterhouse, 82. There was a BOULE (βουλή) once in the Sixth Form of 1872 as to what a monitor should do if he were thus insulted [by a visit of a master to Banco].
Bounce. First Bounce, subs. (Stonyhurst).—A goal (which is never allowed) taken by a “drop-kick” at football.
Second bounce, subs. (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A kind of HANDBALL (q.v.) once very popular.
1887. Stonyhurst Mag., July, p. 18, “Stonyhurst in the Fifties.” Second bounce, a variety of handball played with small balls most artistically made of strips of indiarubber, and covered with the best kid-leather. These balls had to be taken to pieces and remade after every match, and they had to be quite freshly made when used. Their seams required to be frequently rubbed over with wax, some of which was always smeared on the handball wall for the purpose. For a game of SECOND BOUNCE a whole side of one of the big handballs was required, and it was played by eight players, four a side. The “over-all” of ordinary handball was the “over line,” and the bulk of the players stood out yards beyond it. He whose “hand” it was bounced the ball, and with a long strong swing of his arm hit it up against the wall, whence with a sharp smack it rebounded high in the air and far out into the ground. As it descended one of the opposite party stopped it with his hand and let it BOUNCE twice on the ground, the FIRST BOUNCE being, as a rule, too high to let him strike it, and then with a similar swing hit it up again. The rules, except as to permitting the ball to be taken up at the SECOND BOUNCE, were similar to those of handball. Balls perished quickly in such a game, nearly a dozen being required for one. Second bounce used chiefly to be played on Sunday afternoon, after Vespers, and almost all not engaged in the game would range themselves on the flanks to watch.
Bounder, subs. (University).—A dog-cart.