Bare

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BARE, adj. Sc. Nhb. Cum. Wm. Yks. Stf. Not. Lin.
Nhp. War. Wor. Som. Dev. Cor. Written bair- (Jam.).
1. In comp. (1) Bare-back, a species of fluke; (2)
Bare-backs, (a) turnips with the tops cut off; (b) sheep after
being shorn; (3) Bare-barley, a species of barley usually
called French barley; (4) Bare-board, penniless, at a card-table;
(5) Bare-bolsht, unfledged; (6) Bare-bub, an unfledged
bird; (7) Bare-buck, a six-year-old buck; (8) Bare-cart, a cart
or wagon in which the wheels are not protected by iron
hoops or tires; (9) Bare-fallow, land left fallow for the whole
of one year; (10) Bare-gollin, Bare-gollock, Bare-golly, a newly hatched
featherless bird; (11) Bare-gorp, an unfledged bird; (12)
Bare-man, a bankrupt, who gives up all his goods to his
creditors; (13) Bare-mead, stript; (14) Bare-muck, the refuse
thrown from the stone upon which the bone handles of
knives are ground; (15) Bare-powed, bareheaded; (16) Bare-ridged,
without a saddle, bare-backed; (17) Bare-snaked, naked; (18)
Bare-vamped, standing in one's stockings, without shoes; (19)
Bare-wagon, see Bare-cart.
(1) Bnff.1 (2) (a) Nhb.1 (b) Wm.1 (3) Stf. Bare-barley, naked
barley, whose ear is shaped like barley, but its grain like wheat
without any husk (K.); Stf.1 (4) Cum. (M.P.) (5) s.Not. Don't
tek it yit, lads; it's a bare-bolsht un (J.P.K.). (6) w.Yks.5
Not.3 n.Lin.1 The names boys give to young birds are bare-bubs,
pen-feather'd uns, flig'd uns, and flig'd flyers. (7) Nhp. (G.F.N.);
Nhp.1 (8) n.Lin.1 Obsol. Before the great enclosures of the last
century almost all the highways were unstoned, and carts and
wagons frequently had not their wheels protected by iron. One
shodd wayne and one bare wayne liij, Invent. of John Nevill, of
Faldingworth (1590) MS. The wheels of bathing machines in
Britain and elsewhere are, at the present day, sometimes left
unshod where the surface they have to traverse is not of shingle
but of sand. (9) War.3 Land that lies fallow for a part of the year,
and on which a root crop is grown in the latter part of the year, is
a fallow, but land that lies fallow throughout the whole of the year
is a bare-fallow. (10) e.Yks.1 (11) Cum.1 (12) Sc. ? Obs. (Jam.)
(13) Wm. & Cum.1 Upon his reddy bare-mead back, 177. (14) w.Yks.
The word was in common use in Sheffield among cutlers, but somewhat
obs. at present, as very few bone handles are now ground
upon stone. However ‘bare-muck’ is well understood here
(G.B.W.); w.Yks.2 (15) Sc. The leddies bare-powed were, baith
auld and young, Allan Lilts (1874) 155. (16) w.Som.1 Thee't
never be able to ride vitty, avore canst stick on bare-ridged. Dev.
This task... was not only no toil to him, but a real labour of love
─ one he would have ridden ‘bare ridge’ to perform, Davies
Memoir of Russell (1878) viii. nw.Dev.1 Cor. Zenobia Baraguannith
at the age of ninety-nine rode bare-ridged on a young beast
(a colt), to the court, Monthly Mag. (1808) II. 422; Grose (1790)
MS. add. (C.); Cor.1 He rides bare-ridged; Cor.2 (17) w.Yks.
See thee, he's bare-snaked! (S.O.A.) (18) Cor. A common expression
(M.A.C.); Cor.3 (19) n.Lin.1
2. In phr. (1) bare as a bo'd's tail, as bare as a bird's tail;
(2) to ride bareback, to ride without a saddle.
(1) n.Lin.1 Said of a person who has lost everything which he
possessed. (2) n.Yks. (I.W.) n.Lin.1
3. Simple, plain, unadorned.
Lth. Water his drink, his claithing bare, Bruce Poems (1813)
55. w.Som.1 Au·nkaum·un bae·ur kunsaa·rn [uncommonly bare
concern, said of a shabby performance at a travelling circus].
n.Dev. Vor es olweys thort her to ha be bare buckle and thongs,
Exm. Crtshp. (1746) l. 546.
4. Mere, only just.
n.Sc. More commonly applied to things than to persons. She
gyah [gave] the bokie a bare saxpins for cairryin the creel. He
jist got a bare shillin an nae ae baubee mehr for a' it he did
(W.G.). Ayr. She carried her scorn o' me sae far as to prefer
a bare farmer lad like John Lounlans, Galt Lairds (1826) vii.
w.Yks. It's bare weight (Æ.B.).
5. Thin, lean, poor, in bad condition.
Abd. He did what, had he been keepit bare, He ne'er mith
done, Shirref Poems (1790) 9. Kcd. I wad be content In barer
hame than noo, Grant Lays (1884) 179. e.Yks. Corne that is sowne
on land that is in hearte will allwayes bee sooner ripe then that which
is sowne on bare lande, Best Econ. (1641) 53. s.Wor. (H.K.)
w.Som.1 Applied to animals ─ bare-boned. Dhai bee·us bee
tuur·bl bae·ur [those beasts are very thin].
6. Audacious; also mean, base.
Yks. To go and say that ─ a bare hussy (C.C.R.); It's a bare
piece o' business (B.K.). n.Yks.2 A bare un, a base fellow.
[1. (4) Reduit au tapis (at play), left a bareboord, whose
money is all lost, COTGR.; (12) Bairman, a poor insolvent
debtor, left bare and naked, who was obliged to swear in
court, that he was not worth more than five shillings and
five pence, Bailey (1721); To hund out bair men and
vagaboundis, Acts Jas. VI (1581), ed. 1814, 217 (Jam.).]

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