Note 216 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING. (continued 2)

Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, by R. Anderson. An explanation of a few terms in the above verses will render them more intelligible to the reader who has the misfortune to be unacquainted with the Cumberland dialect. Clipt and heeled, prepared for the sport, like cocks for fighting. Lish, sprightly, active. Cuttered, cooed, like billing doves. Stour, dust. Lanter, three-card loo. Caird-lakers, card-players. Lanter, or lant, so common in Cumberland and Northumberland, appears to have been unknown to a deservedly high authority on all sports and games: "The editor does not know the game of Lant."—Bell's Life in London, 4th March, 1838.