Turmets, Turmits _s._ turnips
Turve _s._ turf
Tut _s._ a hassock
Tutty _s._ flower. Tutty-more flower-root
Tut-work, Tuck-work _s._ piece-work
'T'war it was
Twibill _s._ a sort of axe with bill of two forms
Twily _adj._ restless
Twink, or Pink _s._ a chaffinch
Twi-ripe, Twi-ripy _adj._ unequally ripe
Twistle, Twizzle _s._ that part of a tree where the branches divide from
the stock
Under-creepin _adj._ sneaking
Ungain (from gain) unhandy
Unkit _et. id. adj._ lonely, dismal (A S _cwyde_, speech; _uncwyde_,
solitary, having no one to speak to)
Unray _v._ to undress, ex. I do ston to ray, and I do ston to unray
Untang _v._ to untie
Up, Uppy _v._ to arise, to get up
Uppin-stock, Lighting-stock _s._ a horse-block
Uppings _s._ perquisites
Upsighted _s._ a defect of vision rendering a person unable to look down
Ur, Hur _pron._ he, she, or it
Urn, Hurn _v._ to run (A S _yrnan_)
Utchy _pron._ I (Ger. _ich_)
Vage, Vaze _v._ to move about or run in such a way as to agitate the air
Valch _v._ to thrust with the elbow or fist
Vang _v._ to take or catch, to receive as well as earn wages; ex. To
vang a fire, to vang money; also to stand sponsor (A S _fangen_)
Vare _s._ weasel or stoat. Vair ermine
Vare _v._ to bring forth young, applied to pigs (from farrow)
Varmint _s._ a vermin
Vaught _part._ fetched, hence the proverb
vur vaught
dear a-bought
Vawth _s._ a bank of dung or earth prepared for manure; litter of pigs
Vay, or Vie _v._ to go, to succeed, to turn out well (Fr. _va'tail_) ex.
How doe't vay wi'ye?
Veelvare, Veldevere _s._ field-fare
Vell _s._ a part of the stomach of a calf used for making cheese;
membrane
Vent, Vent-hole _s._ the wrist of a shirt, the button-hole
Verdi, Verdit _s._ opinion, ex. Thats my verdit therefor I zay 't
Vester _s._ a pin used to point out the letters to children learning to
read
Vier _s._ fire
Vig _v._ to rub gently by a quick motion of the finger forward and
backward (Dutch _ficken_)
Vinnid, Vinny _adj._ mouldy, as bread; humoursome, as a spoiled child;
affected
Vitten, Vitty _adj._ fitly, featly, properly applied _s._ a whim or
pretence
Vleer _s._ flea
Vlother _s._ incoherent talk, nonsense
Voccating _adj._ going about chattering in an idle manner
Vore-right _adj._ blunt, rude, impertinent
Voss, Voth _s._ a side furrow
Vouce _adj._ strong, nervous
Vug _v._ to strike with the elbow _s._ a blow with the elbow
Vyer _s._ the fair, ex. Guaine to vyer?
W an initial W is often pronounced as in Welsh _oo_, ex. Walter, oolter;
witness, ootness; Wells, ools
Wallet _s._ brushwood, bramble-wood
Wamble, Wammel _v.n._ to move in an awkward manner, applied chiefly to
machinery
Want, Wont _s._ a mole
Want-wriggle _s._ mole-track
War _v. pret. of the verb_ "_to be_" I war, he war, we war, &c.
Wash-dish _s._ the wag-tail
Wassail _v._ drinking success to the apple crop
Way-zaltin _s._ a play in which two persons standing back to back
interlace each others arms, and by bending forward alternately raise each
other from the ground
Weepy _adj._ moist, abounding in springs
Welch-nut _s._ walnut (Ger. _welsche-nuss_)
Well _s._ a running spring, a source (Ger. _quelle_, as distintinguished
from a wenk or wink)
Weng _s._ the front rack of the sull
Wevet _s._ a spider's web
Whippences _s._ bodkins or swingle-bars of a plough
Whipper-snapper _s._ a little, active, nimble fellow
Whipswhiles _s._ a short interval, as between the strokes of a whip
Whister-twister _s._ a smart blow on the side of the head
Whiver _v._ to hover, to flutter. Whiver-minded _adj._ wavering
Widow-man _s._ a widower
Wim _v._ to winnow. Wim-sheet, Wimmin-sheet, Wimmindust _s._
Windle, Windle-thrush _s._ red-wing
Wink _s._ an excavated or sunken well (Query supplied with a Winch?)
Wipes _s._ faggots for draining or fencing
Wisht _adj._ sad, untoward
Without unless, except
Woek, Wuk _s._ oak
Woeks _s._ clubs on playing cards, from their shape
Wont-heeave, Want-snap _s._ a mole-hill, mole-trap
Wood-quist _s._ wood-pigeon, cushat
Wood-wall _s._ woodpecker
Worra _s._ part of the centre of the old spinning-wheel
Wosberd, Whisbird, Whosbird _s._ a term of reproach.
Wrede _v._ to spread abroad, as wheat is said to wrede when several
stalks shoot out of the ground from a single grain.
Wrick _v.s._ strain
Wride _v.n._ to stretch, to expand
Wring _s._ press, ex. A cider-wring
Writh-hurdles _s._ plated hurdles
Wrizzled, Wrizzly _adj._ shrivelled up, wrinkled
Yails _s._ the uprights in hurdles
Yal, Yalhouse, Yarm, Yel, &c. _s._ ale, alehouse, arm, eel, &c.
Yap _v._ to yelp like a cur
Yappingale, Yaffler, Yuckle _s._ woodpecker
Yeass _s._ an earthworm _pl._ yeasses
Yeo _s._ main drain of a level
Yeth _s._ hearth. Yeth-stone hearth-stone
Yoak _s._ the grease in wool
Yoaky _adj._ greasy, applied to wool as it comes from the sheep
Yokes _s._ hiccups
Yourn yours
Yow _v._ to cut the stubble short, to cut with a hook
Zam _v.a._ to heat for some time over a fire, but not to boil
Zam-sod, Zam-sodden half baked
Zand-tot _s._ sand hill
Zate _adj._ soft
Zatenfare _s._ softish, a foolish fellow
Zead _v._ for has seen
Zead _s._ seed. Zead-lip seed-lip
Zenvy _s._ wild mustard
Zinney _s._ sinews
Zwail _v._ to move about the arms extended, and up and down
Zwell _v._ to swallow
Zwodder _s._ a drowsy and stupid state of body and mind
Zwound _v._ to swoon
F. MAY, PRINTER, HIGH STREET, TAUNTON.