It appears from The Westmoreland Dialect

It appears from The Westmoreland Dialect

It appears from The Westmoreland Dialect

It appears from "The Westmoreland Dialect," by A. Walker (1790), that cock-fighting and "casting" of pancakes were then common in that county, thus: "Whaar ther wor tae be cock-feightin', for it war pankeak Tuesday," and "we met sum lads an' lasses gangin' to kest (cast) their pankeaks."

To whip the cat. "To practise the most pinching parsimony, grudging even the scraps and orts, or remnants of food given to the cat." Holloway (Norfolk).