Long

Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html

LONG, adj. Var. dial. uses in Sc. and Eng. In comb. (1) Long beck, a stone slate varying in size in different localities; (2) Long corn, in phr. (2) to give a horse long corn, to whip it; (3) Long lonning, a variety of the game of leap-frog; (4) Long mare, a fall in wrestling; (5) Long merkles, a stone slate 3 ft. 4 in. long; (6) Long-on-wall, a stone slate, 2 ft. 6¼ in. long; (7) Long segrum, a stone slate, 3 ft. long; (8) Long-tailed chataway, the long-tailed tit, Acredula rosea; (9) Long-tongue, the wryneck, Jynx torquilla; (10) Long wall, see below. (1) w.Dur.1 10½ in. long. w.Yks. 24½ in. long (H.V.). (2) Lakel.2 (s.v. Cooarn). (3) Cum. Each boy, after he has jumped, himself bends down and forms a back for the others, the last ‘back’ becoming a jumper when all have passed over him (E.W.P.). (4) Nhb. The latter considering how it would tell in his favour if he could throw such a heavy man, ducked under his fists and almost managed to get his arm round Billy's hips— the long-mare, Graham Red Scaur (1896) 346. w.Dur.1 (5, 6, 7) w.Dur.1 (8) Dor. (H.J.M.) (9) War. Berrow's Jrn. (Mar. 3, 1888). (10) Sc. (G.W.) Lan. The pit was worked on what is known as the long wall principle; that is the coal was cut away at once, leaving the goaf or gob behind, Railway Review (Aug. 27, 1901) 10.