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stick, duly curved at the striking end.—Atkinson's Cleveland Glossary.
It is also given in Yorkshire Glossary (Whitby).
See "Bandy," " Doddart," " Hockey."
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A game played with a hazel nut bored and run upon a string.—Dickinson's Cumberland Glossary. Probably the same game as "Conkers." See "Conkers."
Keeling the Pot
Brockett mentions that a friend informed him that he had seen a game played amongst children in Northumberland the subject of which was " Keeling the Pot." A girl comes in exclaiming, " Mother, mother, the pot's boiling ower." The answer is, " Then get the ladle and keel it." The difficulty is to get the ladle, which is " up a height," and the " steul" wants a leg, and the joiner is either sick or dead (Glossary North Country Words). A sentence from Love's Labours Lost, " While greasy Joan doth keel the pot," illustrates the use of the term " keel."
See " Mother, Mother, the Pot Boils over."
Keppy Ball
In former times it was customary every year, at Easter and Whitsuntide, for the mayor, aldermen, and sheriff of Newcastle, attended by the burgesses, to go in state to a place called the Forth, a sort of mall, to countenance, if not to join in the play of " Keppy ba " and other sports. This diversion is still in part kept up by the young people of the town (Brockett's North Country Words). It is also mentioned in Peacock's Manley and Corringhani Glossary, and in Ross and Stead's Holderness Glossary.
Mr. Tate (History of Alnwick) says that a favourite pastime of girls, " Keppy ball," deserves a passing notice, because accompanied by a peculiar local song. The name indicates the character of the game; " kep " is from cepan, Anglo-Saxon,
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