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DAB—DAVIE-DRAP 95
Dab
Dab a prin in my lottery book;
Dab ane, dab twa, dab a' your prins awa'. A game in which a pin is put at random in a school-book, between the leaves of which little pictures are placed. The successful adventurer is the person who puts the pin between two leaves including a picture which is the prize, and the pin itself is the forfeit (Blackwood's Magazine, Aug. 1821, p. 36). This was a general school game in West London in i860-1866 (G. L. Gomme).
Dab-an-thricker
A game in which the dab (a wooden ball) is caused to spring upwards by a blow on the thricker (trigger), and is struck by a flat, bottle-shaped mallet fixed to the end of a flexible wand, the distance it goes counting so many for the striker.—Ross and Stead's Holderness Glossary.
This is the same as " Knur and Spell."
Dab-at-the-hole
A game at marbles (undescribed).—Patterson's Antrim and Down Glossary.
Dalies
A child's game, played with small bones or pieces of hard wood. The dalies were properly sheep's trotters.—H alii well's Dictionary.
Evidently the same game as "Fivestones" and "Hucklebones."
Davie-drap
Children amuse themselves on the braesides i' the sun, playing at " Hide and Seek" with this little flower, accompanying ahvays the hiding of it with this rhyme, marking out the circle in which it is hid with the forefinger:— Athin the bounds o' this I hap, My black and bonny davie-drap; Wha is here the cunning yin My davie-drap to me will fin.
—Mactaggart's Gallovidian Encyclopedia.
The davie-drap is a little black-topped field-flower. |
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