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567.01leary obelisk via the rock vhat myles knox furlongs; to the
–567.01+Slang obelisk: penis
–567.01+The Rock Road: part of the road extending in a southeasterly direction from Dublin (towards Dún Laoghaire), as it passes through Blackrock
–567.01+Slang rocks: testicles
–567.01+eight miles no furlongs; eight miles six furlongs (the Dún Laoghaire Obelisk is about 8.5 miles from the entrance to Phoenix Park via the Rock Road)
–567.01+what [.02]
–567.01+VI.B.13.129b (g): 'myles'
–567.01+Sea of Moyle: the strait between Ireland and Scotland, situated to the north of the Irish Sea (implies king's crossing of the sea from England to Ireland) [.13-.16]
–567.01+Nautical knot: a nautical mile (about 1.15 miles)
–567.01+furlong: an eighth of a mile
567.02general's postoffice howsands of patience; to the Wellington
–567.02+VI.B.19.213d (g): 'GPO 2 miles'
–567.02+General Post Office, O'Connell Street, Dublin (about two miles east of the entrance to Phoenix Park)
–567.02+thousands of paces (a pace, while not clearly defined, is sometimes considered to be a thousandth of a mile)
–567.02+how [.01]
–567.02+patience (implies king's delay) [.14]
–567.02+Wellington Monument: obelisk in Phoenix Park, less than half a mile west of the entrance (sometimes referred to as the Wellington Memorial)
567.03memorial half a league wrongwards; to Sara's bridge good hun-
–567.03+Tennyson: The Charge of the Light Brigade i: 'Half a league onward' (implies king's horses) [.17-.18]
–567.03+league: about three miles
–567.03+Sarah's Bridge: a bridge over the Liffey just south of Phoenix Park, about a kilometre west of the entrance, at a point where the river becomes tidal (i.e. affected by the tide of the sea) under normal conditions (renamed Island Bridge in 1922)
–567.03+bridge, meet her (Island Bridge) [103.01] [626.07-.08]
–567.03+hunter and nine men (implies king's hunting party) [.21-.25]
–567.03+hundred and ninety metres
567.04ter and nine to meet her: to the point, one yeoman's yard. He, he,
–567.04+phrase to the point: pertinently, succinctly, dealing solely with the issue at hand
–567.04+Slang pointer: Slang yard: penis
–567.04+VI.B.9.072b (g): 'yeoman'
–567.04+Yeomen of the Guard: bodyguards of the British monarch (implies king's men) [.17-.18]
–567.04+Gilbert and Sullivan: Yeomen of the Guard (Jack Point is a jester in the comic opera)
–567.04+(laughter, he x 3) [.05] [570.24-.25]
–567.04+he (implies the king) [.15]
567.05he! At that do you leer, a setting up? With a such unfettered belly?
–567.05+VI.B.19.212f (g): 'whatever are you looking at'
–567.05+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...that...} | {JJA 60:288: ...what...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 60:347)
–567.05+leer: to look with a side glance or sly expression [.06] [570.24-.25]
–567.05+French lire: to read (pronounced 'leer') [566.35-.36] [.06] [570.24-.25]
–567.05+French rire: to laugh (pronounced 'reer') [.04] [.06] [570.24-.25]
–567.05+VI.B.40.143b (b): 'setting up of the backbone' [.06]
–567.05+Budge: The Book of the Dead, introduction, p. lxix: (of the setting up of the Tet, the pillar-like symbolic backbone of Osiris) 'at one time the Egyptian placed his paradise in the north of Egypt, probably in some part of the Delta... It was here that the reconstitution of the dismembered body of Osiris took place, and it was here that the solemn ceremony of setting up of the... backbone of Osiris, was performed each year' [566.29] [.06]
–567.05+VI.C.5.097a (o): === VI.B.10.008f ( ): 'One laughs in streams, in cascades with unbuttoned belly' [.04]
–567.05+German mit einem solchen: with such an (literally 'with a such')
567.06Two cascades? I leer (O my big, O my bog, O my bigbagbone!)
–567.06+leer, lire, rire [.05] [570.24-.25]
–567.06+lean
–567.06+Motif: O, my back!
–567.06+Slovenian O moj Bog!: O my God!
–567.06+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...bigbagbone...} | {Png: ...bagbone...}
–567.06+big bag bone (Motif: big bad bold)
–567.06+backbone [.05]
567.07because I must see a buntingcap of so a pinky on the point. It is
–567.07+VI.B.13.016a (g): 'bunting cap so pink'
–567.07+bunting: a one-piece knitted infant sleeping garment, shaped like sleeping bag and often accompanied by a similarly knitted hood or cap, attached or separate, referred to as a bunting cap
–567.07+bunting: flags collectively (Cluster: Flags)
–567.07+bunting, cap [.19] [607.28-.29]
–567.07+VI.B.14.181f (o): 'Old Hunting Cap (O'Connell)'
–567.07+Gwynn: Munster 38: 'The builder of Darrynane... was a Daniel or Donal who married a daughter of the O'Donoghues — another great Kerry clan. This lady — Máire Dubh — was a fruitful mother of children — she bore twenty-two of them and brought twelve to full age; but she was also notable as a poetess in the Irish tongue. Her second son, Maurice, inherited Darrynane, and was known all over the country as Hunting Cap O'Connell, for a tax was put on beaver hats, and from that day he wore nothing but the velvet cap in which he was used to hunt hare and fox on the mountains of Iveragh. Daniel O'Connell, his nephew, was a great votary of that sport, and I have talked with a man who had hunted in his company' (Daniel O'Connell)
–567.07+(foreskin or condom on small penis)
–567.07+Colloquial pinky: anything small, especially the little finger
–567.07+pink: scarlet-coloured coat worn in fox hunting
–567.07+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...point...} | {JJA 60:288: ...poink...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 60:347)
567.08for a true glover's greetings and many burgesses by us, greats
–567.08+VI.B.13.151b (g): 'true glover'
–567.08+true lovers' meeting [540.31]
–567.08+Serbo-Croatian glavar: ruler, chief
–567.08+burgesses: citizens of a borough with full rights
–567.08+burgee: a small triangular or swallow-tailed flag, used primarily for ship and yacht identification (Cluster: Flags)
–567.08+great gross: twelve gross, twelve dozen dozens (i.e. 1,728)
–567.08+greats: eminent people
–567.08+Oxford Colloquial greats: final B.A. examination (known as 'great go' in University Colloquial) [.24] [507.09]
567.09and grosses, uses to pink it in this way at tet-at-tet. For long has
–567.09+(common people)
–567.09+German groß: big, grand, great
–567.09+Slang phrase pink it: to show off, to act in a fashionable manner
–567.09+VI.B.40.140a (o): 'tet-a tet (head)'
–567.09+Budge: The Book of the Dead, introduction, p. liv: (of Osiris) 'the ceremonies connected with the raising up of the Tet which were performed in early dynastic times at Abydos, where the head of the god was believed to be buried' [566.29]
–567.09+Tet: a pillar-like ancient Egyptian symbol of stability, the symbolic backbone of Osiris (Budge: The Book of the Dead, introduction, p. xcvi: 'Tet... the symbol of Osiris'; now usually spelled 'Djed') [566.29] [566.35]
–567.09+French tête-à-tête: private conversation (literally 'head-to-head')
567.10it been effigy of standard royal when broken on roofstaff which
–567.10+VI.B.40.135f (o): 'effigy'
–567.10+VI.B.40.134c (o): 'royal standard broken on staff'
–567.10+Royal Standard: a flag flown on a palace when the British monarch is in residence, on the monarch's ship or car, or on any building when the monarch visits it (previously also referred to as 'Standard Royal'; Cluster: Flags)
–567.10+Nautical broken: (of a flag) unfurled and shaken out (Cluster: Flags)
–567.10+the Tet was portrayed with four crossbars at the top, said to represent the four branches of a roof-tree (from a myth that the tree that grew from Osiris's body was cut down and made into a roof-tree, namely the main beam of a roof of a house, while still containing the god) [566.29] [.09]
–567.10+staff: flagpole (Cluster: Flags)
567.11to the gunnings shall cast welcome from Courtmilits' Fortress,
–567.11+VI.B.40.134e (o): 'the 'gunnings''
–567.11+The Gunnings: two 18th century Irish sisters who married English aristocrats [495.25]
–567.11+gunning: hunting with guns
–567.11+German König: king (countless flags and banners were flown all around Dublin to welcome George IV; Cluster: Flags) [566.28]
–567.11+Irish céad míle fáilte: a hundred thousand welcomes (traditional Irish greeting; banners with these words were carried by people affiliated with various Dublin churches and guilds marching as part of George IV's procession through Dublin, and one very large such banner was hung from a specially constructed arch in Sackville Street, through which the king formally entered the city) [566.28]
–567.11+military court, military fortress
567.12umptydum dumptydum. Bemark you these hangovers, those
–567.12+nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty [.17] [568.25]
–567.12+dum-dum bullet: a bullet designed to expand on impact (first developed at the Dum Dum Arsenal in India, 1896)
–567.12+Dutch bemerk je?: do you notice?
–567.12+VI.B.40.045e (o): 'hang over field of liberty' (first space and 'liberty' uncertain)
–567.12+(Cluster: Flags)
–567.12+House of Hanover: the European royal house to which all the monarchs who ruled Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1901 belonged (including George IV) [566.28]
567.13streamer fields, his influx. Do you not have heard that, the queen
–567.13+streamer: long narrow flag (Cluster: Flags)
–567.13+VI.C.5.023c (o): 'influx — *E*'
–567.13+flags (Cluster: Flags)
–567.13+VI.B.19.224b (g): 'The King comes comes tomorrow? Did Well, I heard something about somebody coming' ('Did' uncertain) [.13-.16] [570.09]
–567.13+do you not have heard? [570.08]
–567.13+shortly before George IV's visit to Ireland, his estranged wife, Queen Caroline, was already dying, and in fact died prior to his arrival there [566.28]
–567.13+VI.C.5.199g (b): === VI.B.17.041a ( ): 'the quean *A*'
–567.13+One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories, story 1, p. 2: (of a man coveting his neighbour's wife) 'he found many and subtle manners of making the good comrade, the husband of the said quean, his private and familiar friend'
567.14lying abroad from fury of the gales, (meekname mocktitles her
–567.14+VI.C.5.199h (b): === VI.B.17.041b ( ): 'lay abroad'
–567.14+One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories, story 1, p. 2: (of a man coveting his neighbour's wife) 'she promised him that, whenever her husband lay abroad for a night, she would advise him thereof'
–567.14+abroad [568.01]
–567.14+in the years preceding George IV's ascent to the throne, Caroline of Brunswick, his estranged wife, lived away from Britain, primarily in Italy, and was rumoured to be romantically and sexually involved there [566.28]
–567.14+en route to Ireland, George IV's royal yacht was delayed in Holyhead for several days due to contrary winds preventing the crossing of the Irish sea [566.28]
–567.14+Gilbert and Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore: song I am the Captain of the Pinafore: 'I am never known to quail At the fury of a gale And I'm never, never sick at sea'
–567.14+Gaels (i.e. Irishmen)
–567.14+nickname
–567.14+name, title (appellations)
–567.14+Mock Turtle: character in Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (from mock turtle soup, made with calf's head to resemble green turtle soup)
567.15Nan Nan Nanetta) her liege of lateenth dignisties shall come on
–567.15+No, No, Nanette: a highly popular 1924 musical comedy
–567.15+Italian nana: Italian nanetta: female dwarf (Queen Caroline, George IV's estranged wife, was very short and often ridiculed for it) [566.28]
–567.15+(the king, her husband)
–567.15+VI.B.4.169b (b): '19th dynasty'
–567.15+Budge: The Book of the Dead, introduction, p. xlii: 'In the XIXth Dynasty the vignettes were painted in very bright colours, and the texts were, little by little, driven into the subordinate position which the vignettes occupied at the beginning of the XVIIIth Dynasty, when they were traced in black outline'
–567.15+latent: hidden, concealed
–567.15+lateen: a type of triangular sail
–567.15+late
–567.15+dignities
–567.15+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...on their bay...} | {JJA 61:98: ...on...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 61:252) [.25]
–567.15+Variants: elucidations for variant: VI.C.1.038b (r): === VI.B.16.079f ( ): 'on tomorrow' ^^^ Freeman's Journal 23 Apr 1924, 2/1: 'DEATHS. ROURKE (Kells)': 'Funeral on to-morrow (Thursday) at 2 o'clock (old time) to New Cemetery'
567.16their bay tomorrow, Michalsmas, mellems the third and fourth of
–567.16+phrase on their way: on their journey
–567.16+George IV's ship landed on Howth Head, on the northern side of Dublin Bay [566.28]
–567.16+Motif: Michael/Elcock (Michael, jubilee, Elcock, Michael) [.22] [.24] [.27] [031.17-.19]
–567.16+Michaelmas: Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels (29 September)
–567.16+VI.C.7.058d-f (r): 'at the midhour betwixt 4th and 5th of the clock in the timing' === VI.B.8.085j ( ): 'at the midhour betwixt 4th & 5th of the clocks in the morning' (only fourth to tenth word crayoned)
–567.16+Danish mellem: between
567.17the clock, there to all the king's aussies and all their king's men,
–567.17+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...there to...} | {JJA 61:98: ...thereto...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 62:209)
–567.17+Archaic thereto: additionally, also
–567.17+nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty: 'All the king's horses and all the king's men' [.12] [.18] [568.25]
–567.17+Colloquial Aussies: Australians (George IV was the king of the British colonies in Australia, the first of which was founded during the reign of his father, George III) [566.28]
–567.17+French aussi: also, too
567.18knechts tramplers and cavalcaders, led of herald graycloak, Ulaf
–567.18+(men and horses) [.17]
–567.18+VI.B.40.135c (b): 'Cavalier Knights templar'
–567.18+Knights Templar: a 12th to 14th century Christian military order closely tied to the Crusades, becoming in modern times a popular object of much myth, legend and conspiracy theory
–567.18+German Knecht: servant, serf
–567.18+cavalcade: a ceremonial procession of horseback riders and carriages (such as George IV's through Dublin) [566.28]
–567.18+VI.C.1.002e (r): === VI.B.16.015e ( ): 'Harold Greycloak'
–567.18+Walsh: Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period 65: (of Icelandic and Old Norse sagas) 'the rather unsympathetic representation of Harold Greycloak and his brothers may be due to the fact that they were Christians'
–567.18+Archaic led of: led by
–567.18+Harald Greycloak: 10th century king of Norway
–567.18+heralds traditionally walk at the head of a royal procession (such as George IV's through Dublin) [566.28]
–567.18+VI.C.1.003b (r): 'Olaf Goldarshild' === VI.B.16.016c ( ): 'Olaf Goldenshield'
–567.18+Walsh: Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period 70: (of an unknown 11th century king of Dublin, presumably) 'Another poem... was also composed in Dublin, at the court of 'Olaf of the golden shields,' soon after the battle of Clontarf'
567.19Goldarskield? Dog! Dog! Her lofts will be loosed for her and
–567.19+German doch!: on the contrary! (i.e. indeed I do) [.13] [569.17]
–567.19+(hunting dogs) [.23-.24]
–567.19+VI.C.5.048k (b): 'army lofts (pigeons)'
–567.19+lofts: pigeon houses; flocks of pigeons [.20]
–567.19+loft, bler [.07] [607.28-.29]
–567.19+locks [.20]
567.20their tumblers broodcast. A progress shall be made in walk, ney? I
–567.20+tumbler: a breed of pigeon characterised by its ability to tumble backwards in flight; a part of a lock that is adjusted by the key to allow locking or unlocking [.19]
–567.20+broadcast: scattered widely
–567.20+Dutch broodkast: pantry, cupboard
–567.20+brood: offspring, young ones (especially of birds)
–567.20+VI.B.34.089c (b): '*V*d a progress'
–567.20+Work in Progress: Joyce's name for Joyce: Finnegans Wake during composition
–567.20+Archaic nay: no
567.21trow it well, and uge by uge. He shall come, sidesmen accostant, by
–567.21+Archaic trow: to believe, to suppose
–567.21+Danish uge: week
–567.21+(the king shall come to hunt foxes) [.21-.25] [030.11-031.29]
–567.21+(the king's two attendants) [031.17-.20]
–567.21+VI.C.5.073k (o): 'Sidesman'
–567.21+sidesmen: assistants to a parish churchwarden or a municipal officer; persons standing beside or on both sides of another (e.g. a king) to assist or support him (physically or figuratively)
–567.21+French accostant: situated beside or on both sides of, flanking
–567.21+Obsolete accost: to walk or sail alongside of
567.22aryan jubilarian and on brigadier-general Nolan or and buccaneer-
–567.22+Aryan: Indo-European or Indo-Iranian (but was appropriated by the Nazis and others to mean of northern European or Germanic descent)
–567.22+jubilarian: a person who celebrates a jubilee or fiftieth anniversary (especially a priest or nun) [.16]
–567.22+and or... or and (*VYC*)
–567.22+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...on...} | {JJA 62:209: ...or...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 62:208)
–567.22+VI.B.42.026e (r): 'brig-gen'
–567.22+Brigadier-General Dennis E. Nolan: head of United States Military Intelligence during and after World War I (held this rank from 1917 to 1925; retired in 1936 as a major-general; born in the United States to Irish immigrant parents)
–567.22+brigadier, general, buccaneer, admiral (army, navy) [607.28-.29]
–567.22+Motif: Browne/Nolan
–567.22+buccaneer: pirate
567.23admiral Browne, with — who can doubt it? — his golden beagles
–567.23+VI.B.42.025e (r): 'admiral'
–567.23+Admiral William Brown: 19th century founder of the Argentine Navy (born in Ireland)
–567.23+VI.B.13.032f (g): 'olden beagles'
–567.23+Golden Beagle: the nickname of H.M.S. Beagle, an early 19th century (1804-1813) British warship, so called for the large number of ships it captured (not the Beagle of Darwin fame)
–567.23+golden eagles have long been used in central Asia for hunting deer, foxes, and other animals
–567.23+both beagles and terriers were used as hunting dogs [.19]
567.24and his white elkox terriers for a hunting on our littlego illcome
–567.24+VI.B.19.080f (g): 'elk *E*'
–567.24+elk, ox (large hoofed quadrupeds)
–567.24+Luke J. Elcock was mayor of Drogheda, County Louth, five times between 1899 and 1926 [.16] [031.18] [566.11]
–567.24+fox terrier: a family of related breeds of terrier (all having predominantly white coats)
–567.24+University Colloquial little go: first B.A. examination (known as 'smalls' in Oxford Colloquial) [.08] [507.09]
–567.24+Song of Solomon 2:15: 'The little foxes, that spoil the vines'
–567.24+go, come (opposites)
–567.24+income taxes
567.25faxes. In blue and buff of Beaufort the hunt shall make. It is
–567.25+German Faxen: foolishness, buffoonery [.26-.27]
–567.25+VI.C.1.088i-k (r): === VI.B.11.014m-.015a ( ): 'Duke of Beaufort blue and buff the hunt — their bedgown' (last word not crayoned)
–567.25+blue and buff are the colours of the Duke of Beaufort's Hunt, one of the oldest and largest fox-hunting grounds and kennels in England [572.06]
–567.25+the prescribed primary colour of dress for the hundreds of participants in George IV's procession through Dublin was blue, and some guilds marching as part of it (e.g. the cotton weavers) were specifically dressed in blue and buff (the colours of the Whig party, which by this time was already pro-Catholic, and which George IV was somewhat close to, unlike his father George III, a staunch Tory supporter) [566.28]
–567.25+Obsolete beaufort: a material used for flags (Cluster: Flags)
–567.25+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...make...} | {JJA 61:98: ...make their bay...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 61:253) [.15]
–567.25+Variants: elucidations for variant: bay: the prolonged and excited barking of hounds upon closely encountering the hunted prey
567.26poblesse noblige. Ommes will grin through collars when each
–567.26+French phrase noblesse oblige: high status comes with social and moral responsibilities, especially towards those less fortunate (literally 'nobility requires')
–567.26+German Pöbel: rabble, mob
–567.26+Irish pobal: people, public
–567.26+Latin omnes: all
–567.26+French hommes: men
–567.26+VI.C.1.054g (r): === VI.B.16.117d ( ): 'grinning through collars'
–567.26+Irish Rivers, The Tolka 396/1: 'In its palmy days the May of Finglas rivalled Donnybrook Fair. The sports consisted of... grinning through collars, and other like exercises' (i.e. contestants at a fair attempting to contort their faces, especially their lower lips, as hideously as possible, while having their heads framed by horse collars; now usually referred to as 'gurning')
–567.26+VI.C.1.054f (r): === VI.B.16.117c ( ): 'each rides neighbour's ass'
–567.26+Irish Rivers, The Tolka 396/1: 'In its palmy days the May of Finglas rivalled Donnybrook Fair. The sports consisted of... donkey-races, in which each man rode his neighbour's ass, and the last won'
567.27riders other's ass. Me Eccls! What cats' killings overall! What
–567.27+Latin mehercule!: by Hercules!
–567.27+Michael [.16]
–567.27+Eccles Street, Dublin, where Bloom lived in Joyce: Ulysses (and through which George IV's procession passed) [566.28]
–567.27+Danish kattekillinger overalt: kittens everywhere (Colloquial phrase have kittens: become nervous or agitated)
–567.27+Catskills: a mountain range in New York, United States
567.28popping out of guillotened widows! Quick time! Beware of
–567.28+Colloquial guillotine windows: a jocular name for sash windows (from the possibility of a raised sash sliding accidentally down over one's neck when leaning out of the window, e.g. to watch a royal procession)
–567.28+VI.B.44.079d-e (o): 'in a quick time beware of waiting donik' ('onik' uncertain; last word not crayoned) [560.09]
–567.28+Military quick time: at a brisk marching pace
567.29waiting! Squintina plies favours on us from her rushfrail and
–567.29+(*A* and her bag of gifts) [209.10-212.19]
–567.29+phrase plies us with: keeps giving us
–567.29+piles on us
–567.29+favours: small gifts, such as given out at a party; sexual privileges
–567.29+VI.C.5.012f (o): 'rush frail'
–567.29+frail: a type of large basket made of rushes, used for packing figs or raisins
567.30Zosimus, the crowder, in his surcoat, sues us with souftwister.
–567.30+(*E*)
–567.30+Zozimus: the nickname of Michael Moran, an early 19th century Dublin street singer and poet
–567.30+Dialect crowder: fiddler
–567.30+(one who attracts a crowd) [.31-.32]
–567.30+VI.C.5.149d (o): === VI.B.10.087i ( ): 'Surcoat'
–567.30+surcoat: a long sleeveless outer garment, often of rich material and displaying heraldic insignia, worn by medieval knights over the armour [559.09]
–567.30+overcoat (French sur-: over-)
–567.30+Obsolete sue: to follow
–567.30+soothes
–567.30+sou'wester: a strong wind blowing for the south-west; an oilskin waterproof hat worn by seamen during wet weather (short for 'southwester')
–567.30+soft
567.31Apart we! Here are gantlets. I believe, by Plentifolks Mixymost!
–567.31+Obsolete apart: depart
–567.31+Obsolete or American gantlet: gauntlet, protective armour for the hands
–567.31+Obsolete or American gantlet: gauntlet, gantlope, a military and naval corporal punishment in which the culprit had to run stripped to the waist between two rows of men who struck at him with sticks or knotted cords (especially 'run the gantlet')
–567.31+VI.C.5.021j (o): 'Pontifex'
–567.31+Latin pontifex maximus: chief high priest; pope
–567.31+plenty folks most mixy (i.e. crowd) [.30] [.32]
–567.31+Colloquial mixy: inclined to mix
567.32Yet if I durst to express the hope how I might be able to be pre-
–567.32+Archaic durst: dared
567.33sent. All these peeplers entrammed and detrained on bikeygels
–567.33+VI.C.6.066b (r): === VI.B.12.099h ( ): 'all the peeple'
–567.33+all these people (i.e. crowd) [.30-.31]
–567.33+peepers: people who peep (Slang eyes)
–567.33+Slang peeper: Anglo-Irish peeler: policeman
–567.33+VI.C.5.154g (o): === VI.B.10.097f-g ( ): 'detrain entrain'
–567.33+entrained and detrained: put on and off a train (originally Military, said of troops) [.34]
–567.33+entrapped and detained
–567.33+trams and trains
–567.33+Motif: 2&3 (bicycles, tricycles; *IJ* and *VYC*)
–567.33+VI.C.6.181b (b): === VI.B.33.069a ( ): 'bikeygels'
–567.33+girls
567.34and troykakyls and those puny farting little solitires! Tollacre,
–567.34+VI.C.6.180g (b): === VI.B.33.068d ( ): 'troikakyl'
–567.34+Russian troika: three; a carriage drawn by three horses harnessed abreast
–567.34+German Kerl: fellow, chap
–567.34+VI.C.6.181c (b): 'punnyfartug' === VI.B.33.069b ( ): 'punnyfarting' (the B notebook entry is preceded by a cancelled 'pun')
–567.34+penny farthing: a later name for an early form of bicycle with a very large front wheel and a small rear wheel, and solid tyres
–567.34+German Fahrt: journey, ride
–567.34+soldiers [.33]
567.35tollacre! Polo north will beseem Sibernian and Plein Pelouta will
–567.35+North Pole
–567.35+polo (Cluster: Ball Games)
–567.35+Joyce: Letters I.57: letter 31/12/04 to Mrs William Murray (Aunt Josephine): 'Pola is a back-of-God-speed place — a naval Siberia — 37 men o'war in the harbour' (Pola, where Joyce lived from October 1904 to March 1905, was then part of Austro-Hungary, now a city in Croatia called Pula)
–567.35+Motif: ear/eye (seem, howl)
–567.35+beseem: to befit, suit (Obsolete to seem, appear)
–567.35+Siberian
–567.35+Hibernian: Irish
–567.35+playing pelota (Cluster: Ball Games)
–567.35+Dutch plein: square, plaza
567.36behowl ne yerking at lawncastrum ne ghimbelling on guelflinks.
–567.36+behowl: to howl at
–567.36+behold
–567.36+bowls (Cluster: Ball Games)
–567.36+Archaic ne... ne: neither... nor
–567.36+York and Lancaster (Motif: Wars of the Roses)
–567.36+yorking: in cricket, dismissing a batsman by bowling him with a yorker, namely a ball that hits the ground near his feet and under his bat (Cluster: Ball Games)
–567.36+Dialect yerking: striking; jerking
–567.36+lawn tennis: tennis (Cluster: Ball Games)
–567.36+Latin castrum: fort, fortress
–567.36+cast: to throw
–567.36+German Colloquial rum: around, about
–567.36+VI.C.6.136b (b): 'ghimbelling on the guelflinks' === VI.B.12.bfrh ( ): 'ghimbelling on the guolflinks'
–567.36+Ghibellines and Guelphs: rival factions in medieval Italy, supporting the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope, respectively (Dante aligned himself with the Guelphs)
–567.36+gambling
–567.36+gambolling: leaping, springing
–567.36+golf links; golf course (Cluster: Ball Games)


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