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babel¹ | According to the bible, a united humanity in the generations following the Great Flood, agree to build a city and a tower tall enough to reach heaven. This came to be known as the tower of Babel, although the phrase does not appear in the bible.
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bacca(1) | tobacco
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Bad scrant(1) | Bad scran; bad luck (to). Anglo-Irish [OED]
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Baggins¹ | food, a snack (N.W.England)
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bags¹ | Trousers [OED]
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bailey¹ | Prison Palmer, Roy – A Touch on the Times Songs of Social Change 1770 to 1914 (Penguin Education, 1974) p 63
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Bailiffs² | Bailiff: An officer of justice under a sheriff, who executes writs and processes, distrains, and arrests; a warrant officer, pursuivant, or catchpoll [OED] Invovled in the pursuit of debtors [CPB]
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Bailliffs | Baillif; The agent of the lord of a manor, who collects his rents, etc.; the steward of a landholder, who manages his estate; one who superintends the husbandry of a farm for its owner or tenant. [OED]
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baiting¹ | The action of giving food to horses, or of taking wayside refreshment, upon a journey. [OED]
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ballast(1) | material to support the track and hold it on place. Ref: Oxford Companion to British Railway History]
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Ballinamuch | The Battle of Ballinamuck (8 September 1798) marked the defeat of the main force of the French incursion during the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland.
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Ballymore | Ballymore (Irish: An Baile Mór, meaning "big town") is a village in County Westmeath, Ireland
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bam¹ | To hoax, practise on the credulity of, deceive, impose upon, cozen. Or A story intended to impose upon the credulous; a hoax or imposition [OED]
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ban(1) | A story intended to impose upon the credulous; a hoax or imposition
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banes(1) | Bones (Scottish)
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bangs them a'(1) | beats them all
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Bangs them a’ |
Beats them all (N.E.England)
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Banker(1) | A labourer who makes banks of earth, ditches, etc.
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Bankers(1) | Banker: A labourer who makes banks of earth, ditches, etc.
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bank¹ | Pit bank - the heaps of coal at the pit head.
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