=Afterclaps=. Consequences, results. ~Atterclaps~ (S.).--N. & S.W.
=All-amang=. _Add_:--
'Zweethearts, an wives, an children young,
Like sheep at vair, be ael among.'
E. SLOW, _Smilin Jack_.
=All as is=. All there is to be said, the final word in the matter.
Used when giving a very peremptory order to a labourer to carry out
your instructions without any further question. 'Aal as is as you've
a-got to do be to volly on hoein' they turmuts till I tells 'ee to
stop!'--N.W.
=Along of=. (1) On account of. ''Twer aal along o' she's bwoy's bad
ways as her tuk to drenk.'--N. & S.W. (2) In company with. 'Here, you
just coom whoam along o' I, an I'll gie 'ee summut to arg about!'--N.
& S.W.
=Aloud=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
*=Altrot=. _Heracleum Sphondylium_, L., Cow-parsnip. See
~Eltrot~.--S.W. (Zeals.)
=Apple-scoop=. A kind of scoop or spoon, made from the knuckle-bone
of a leg of mutton, and used for eating apples, the flavour of which
it is supposed to improve.--N.W.
=At=. (1) _Add_:--S.W. (2) _Add_:--S.W.
=Away with=. _Add_:--N. & S.W.
*=Babes-in-the-Cradle=. _Scrophularia aquatica_, L., Water
Figwort.--S.W. (Little Langford.)
=Bachelor's Buttons=. _Add_:--*(3) _Aquilegia vulgaris_, L., Garden
Columbine.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Back-friends=. _Add_:--S.W.
=Bag=. (2) _Add_:--S.W.
=Bake-faggot=. _Add_:--S.W.
=Bannix=. To drive away poultry, or to hunt them about. 'Go an'
bannix they vowls out.' 'Dwon't bannix about they poor thengs like
that!'--S.W.
=Barley-buck=. A boy's game, played by guessing at the number of
fingers held up.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Bash=, =Bashet=. At Harnham, Salisbury, a small raised footpath is
known as the Bashet, while at Road certain houses built on the upper
side of a similar footpath, close to the boundary line dividing Wilts
and Somerset, are spoken of as being 'on the Bash.'
=Bay=. (1) _Add_:--S.W. (2) _Add_:--S.W.
*=Bayle=. Some plant which we cannot identify.--Obsolete.
'In this ground [near Kington St. Michael, grows]
bayle.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 49, ed. Brit.
=Bee-hackle=. The straw covering of a hive. See ~Hackle~ (2)--S.W.
*=Belly-vengeance=. _Add_:--Also used of very inferior cider.
=Bennets=. (1) _Add_:--S.W.
=Bird's-eye=. _Add_:--(4) _Veronica Buxbaumii_, Ten., Buxbaum's
Speedwell.--S.W. (Charlton.)
=Bivery=. _Add_:--S.W.
=Bleat=. _Add_:--S.W.
*=Blicker=. To shine intermittently, to glimmer. 'I zeen a light a
blickerin' droo th' tallot dwoor.'--S.W.
=Blind-house=. _Add_:--N. & S.W., obsolete.
=Blooms=. Flushes in the face. 'Ther you knaws as I do allus get the
hot blooms ter'ble bad.'--S.W.
=Bolster-pudding=. A roly-poly pudding.--N.W.
*=Bookin='. See ~Buck~.
=Bossy=. _Add_:--S.W.
=Boys=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Brash=, =Braish=. Of weather, cold and bracing.--N.W.
=Brashy=. Full of small stones and grit. 'Th' vier wer ter'ble
braishy 'smarnin',' the coal was bad and stony.--N.W.
=Bread-and-Cheese=. (3) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Break=. (1) _Add_:--Still used in this sense at Deverill, S.W. (2)
Of a spring, to rise.--N. & S.W.
'When the springs doe breake in Morecombe-bottom, in the north
side of the parish of Broade Chalke, which is seldome, 'tis
observed that it foretells a deer yeare for corne.'--AUBREY'S
_Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 34, ed. Brit.
=Breeding-bag=. The ovary of a sow.--N.W.
=Brevet=. (1) _Add_:--'Brevettin' into other folks' business.'--S.W.
(Deverill.)
*=Brimmer=. A broad-brimmed hat.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Brit=, =Brittle out=. (1) _Add_:--S.W. (2) _Add_:--S.W.
=Broken-mouthed=. Children are said to be 'broken-mouthed,' when they
are losing their teeth.--N.W.
=Broom=. 'I bain't a-gwain to hang out the broom,' I intend to be
very particular as to character, &c., before engaging any servants
or labourers.--N.W. (Wedhampton.) In Berks, 'to hang th' brum out
o' winder,' means that the wife is away, and so the husband is at
liberty to entertain any bachelor friends of his who like to drop in.
=Buck=. _Add_:--At Deverill 'Bookin'' is used instead, a 'good
bookin' o' clothes' being a large wash.--S.W.
=Buck-hearted=. Of cabbages, the same as ~Crow-hearted~.--S.W.
(Deverill.)
*=Budget=. The leather pouch in which a mower carries his
whetstone.--S.W. (Deverill.)
*=Bunt-lark=. The Common Bunting.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Buttercup=. _Add_:--N.W. (Huish); S.W. (Charlton.)
*=Butter-flower=. _Caltha palustris_, L., Marsh Marigold.
'The watered meadows all along from Marleborough to Hungerford,
Ramesbury, and Littlecot, at the later end of April, are yellow
with butter flowers.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 51, ed.
Brit.
=Buzzel-hearted=. A cabbage or broccoli plant that has lost its eye
is said to be 'buzzel-hearted.' Compare ~Crow-hearted~.--S.W.
=Caddling=. _Under_ (3) _add_:--'A caddlin' place' is one where as
soon as a servant begins one piece of work he or she is called off
to another, and can never get a chance of finishing anything off
satisfactorily.--N. & S.W.
=Call over=. To publish the banns.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Callus= or =Callis=. _v._ To become hard, as soil in frosty weather:
to cake together (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 109).--N. & S.W.
=Cank=. _Add_:--*(2) _n._ Idle gossip.
=Canker=. (1) _Add_:--Also ~Cankie~.
=Cankers=. 'The baby hev a-got the cankers,' viz. white-mouth or
thrush.--N.W.
=Carpet=. _Add_:--S.W.
=Cart=. _Add_:--S.W.
=Chap=. _Add as example_:--'Hev 'ee zeed how thuck ther ground is aal
chapped wi' th' dry weather? They chaps be so gashly big, the young
pa'tridges 'ull purty nigh vall in.'
=Chin-cough=. The whooping cough.--N.W.
=Chip=. _Add_:--See Davis's _Agric. of Wilts_, p. 262.
=Clacker=. _Add_:--(2) A couple of pieces of wood, rattled together
to scare birds off the crops.--N. & S.W.
=Clam=. (1) To over-fill and choke up anything, as a water-pipe. The
throat sometimes gets quite 'clammed up' with phlegm.--N.W. (2) To
surfeit any one with food.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)
=Clamp about=. To stump about noisily.--N.W.
=Clean-and-wholly=. Entirely. ''Tes aal gone clean-an'-wholly out o'
she's yead!'--N.W.
=Cleaty=. _Add_:--S.W.
=Clinkerballs=. Balls of dried dung or dirt in a sheep's wool.--S.W.
(Wilton, &c.)
=Cloddy=. _Add as example_:--'He's a cloddy sart o' a chap.'
=Clogweed=. _Add_:--(2) _Arctium Lappa_, L., Burdock.--S.W.
=Cludgy=. Clingy, sticky; used especially of bad bread.--N. & S.W.
=Collets=. Young cabbage plants. A man will say in spring, 'I got a
good lot o' collets, but they bean't cabbages.'--N.W.
=Come away=. To spring up.--N.W.
'Owing to the long drought [barley] came away from the ground
at different periods, which will, without doubt, materially
injure the sample for malting purposes.'--_Devizes Gazette_,
June 22, 1893.
=Comical=. _Add_:--Round Warminster everything but a tom-cat is _he_.
=Conigre=. _Add_:--Other localities which may be noted are
Blacklands, Winterbourne Bassett, and Mildenhall. See Smith's _Antiq.
N. Wilts_.
=Conks=, =Conkers=. (1) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.) (2) _Add_:--S.W.
(Deverill.)
=Count=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Coward=. _Dele_ *, and _add_:--Clyffe Pypard.
*=Cow-down=. _Add_:--On the Ordnance Map there are 'Cow-downs' marked
at Deverill, Wylye, Steeple Langford, and Westbury.
*=Creeping Jane=. _Lysimachia Nummularia_, L., Moneywort.--N.W.
(Heddington.)
=Creep-mouse=. To play 'creep-mouse,' to tickle babies and make them
laugh.--N.W.
=Criddlin Pudden=. A kind of pudding, made of the nubbly bits left
over when pigs' fleck has been boiled and pounded and strained.
_Crittens_ in Berks.--N.W.
=Crutch=. (1) A large earthen jar, such as butter is potted in. Cf.
Critch.--N. & S.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) A cheese-pan.--N.W.
*=Cuckoo-pint=. _Cardamine pratensis_, L., Lady's smock.--S.W.
(Charlton.)
=Daffy=. _Add_:--S.W.
=Devil's-ring=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
*=Devourous=. Ravenous.--N.W. (Berks bord.)
=Dicky-birds=. After S.W. _add_:--(Deverill.)
=Dillcup=. _Add_:--*(2) _Ranunculus acris_, L., Meadow
Crowfoot.--S.W. (Charlton, Little Langford.)
=Do=. To thrive (used reflexively). 'He does (_o_ pronounced as in
the infinitive) hissel well, dwon't he?' said of an animal that does
credit to its owner by the way in which it thrives.--N. & S.W.
=Doer=. A pig that thrives well, even on poor food, is a 'good doer,'
while a 'bad doer' refuses to fatten, give it what you will.--N. &
S.W.
=Dog, how beest=? _Add_:--Also used at Deverill, S.W.
=Dog-in-a-blanket=. A roly-poly pudding--N.W.
=Dough-fig=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
*=Down-lanterns=. Heaps of chalk, marking the tracks from village to
village over the downs, to prevent people going astray at night.--S.W.
=Drashel=. _Dele_:--As two men generally work together.
*=Draw-sheave=. (Pronounced _Draa-sheave_.) A wheelwright's
draw-knife.--S.W.
*=Druck=. n. 'A druck of people,' a great crowd.--S.W. (Wilton.)
=Drug=. (1) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.) (2) _Add_:--~Drugshoe~ at
Deverill, S.W.
=Duck's-frost=. _Add_:--Ironically used at Deverill, as, 'Ther'll be
a frost to-night.' 'Ah, a duck's-frost,' viz. none at all.--S.W.
=Dumble=. _Add_:--~Dummil~ (C.).
=Dunch-dumpling=. _Add_:--S.W.
*=Elm-stock= (_Yelm-stock_). A forked stick for carrying straw for
thatching.--S.W.
=Enemy=. _Anemone nemorosa_, L., Wood Anemone. So generally used in
Wilts that it seems advisable to note it, in spite of its being a
mere corruption.--N. & S.W.
=Ent=. See ~Ploughing terms~.
=Faggot=. _Add_:--Used as a general term of abuse.--S.W.
=Falling=. _Add_:--This requires some slight modification. 'We'm
a-gwain to ha' a vallen' seems to be restricted to snow; but when
there is some doubt as to what sort of weather is coming, the phrase
would be 'A vallen o' zum zart,' or 'zum vallen,' thus covering snow,
rain, or hail.
*=Feggy=. Fair.--N.W., obsolete.
'Their persons [in North Wilts] are generally plump and
feggy.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 11, ed. Brit.
=Fiddler's-money=. Small change (threepenny and fourpenny bits).--N.
& S.W.
*=Fiddle-sticks=. _Scrophularia aquatica_, L., Water Figwort.--S.W.
(Little Langford.)
=Fighting-cocks=. _Add_:--_Plantago lanceolata_, L., Ribwort
Plantain.--S.W. (Charlton.)
=Firk=. (2) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Flashy heats=. Hot flushes, that come and go when one is feverish
and weak, as a woman after her confinement.--N.W.
=Flask=. A limp straw-basket used to carry food and tools. Used in
Glouc.--S.W., occasionally.
=Flip=, =Flip-tongued=. Smooth-spoken, glib.--N.W.
=Folly=. _Add_:--In Berks the word is frequently applied to a round
clump of fir-trees on a hill.
=For=. _Add_:--S.W.
=Friggle=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.) *=Furze-tacker= (_Vuzz-tacker_).
_Saxicola rubetra_, the Whinchat.--S.W.
=Fussicky=. Fussy, fidgetty.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)
=Gallows-gate=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Gawley=. _adj._ Patchy: used especially of root-crops that grow
unequally.--S.W., in common use.
=Gay=. _Add_:--(2) In good health. 'I do veel main gay agean
'smarnin', but I wur gashly bad aal laas' wick wi' th' rheumatiz.'--N.
& S.W.
=Get out=. To 'get out' a drawn or carriage in the water meadows
is to clean it well out and make up the banks. To 'get out' a set
of posts and rails is to cut them out and prepare them for putting
up.--N. & S.W.
=Gibbles=. _Add_:--Underground Onions.
*=Gilliflower-grass=. _Carex glauca_, L., and _Carex panicea_,
L.--N.W., obsolete.
'In Bradon Forest growes ... a blew grasse they call
July-flower grasse, which cutts the sheepes mouthes, except in
the spring.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 49, ed. Brit.
*=Gipsy-nut=s. Hips and haws.--S.W. (near Trowbridge.)
=Girls=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Good liver=. A person who lives an exceptionally good and pious
life.--N.W.
=Good-living=. Leading a very pious life. 'Her wur allus a
good-living sart o' a 'ooman.'--N.W.
=Grained=. _Add_:--~Grinted~ in Berks.
=Gramfer= (or =Granfer=) =Grig=. A woodlouse. At Deverill, S.W.,
children try to charm it into curling up, when held in the hand, by
singing:--
'Granfer Grig killed a pig,
Hung un up in corner;
Granfer cried and Piggy died,
And all the fun was over.'
=Granny= (or =Granny's=) =Nightcap=. _Add_:--*(5) _Geum rivale_, L.,
Water Avens.--S.W. (Little Langford.)
=Grigger cake=. Fine paste spread thin like a pancake, and baked on a
gridiron over a mass of glowing wood-coals.--S.W.
=Ground=. _Add_:--S.W.
*=Gubbarn=. _Dele_ 'Should not this be _adj._ instead of _n._?' and
_add_:--Also used in Glouc. as a noun.
=Guss=. (2) _Add_:--S.W.
=Hack=. (1) _Add_:--To hoe; frequently used in S. Wilts.
=Hackle=. (2) _Add_:--~Hackle~, and sometimes ~Shackle~, are used
at Deverill, while elsewhere in S. Wilts ~Bee-hackle~ is the word
employed.
=Hames=. _Dele_ 'in drawing,' and add 'with staples to take the
traces.'
=Hand=. (3) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Hand-staff=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Hanging-post=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill), where ~Har~ is seldom used.
=Hanglers=. _Add_:--In Deverill, a hook used for this purpose is
known as 'a hangles.'--S.W.
=Har=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill, occasionally.)
=Harl=. _Add_:--~Hardle~ is also used in S. Wilts.
*=Harvest-man=. A kind of Spider with long legs.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Heal=. _Add_:--A house is said to be 'unhealed,' or uncovered, when
the thatch has been stripped off by a storm.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Hearken-back=. To recall.--N. & S.W.
=Heartless=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Heaver=. _Add_:--'Van, heavier, caffin or caving rudder, the
winnowing fan and tackle' (D.).
=Hill-trot=. _Add_:--*(3) _Anthriscus sylvestris_, Hoffm., Wild
Beaked-Parsley.--S.W. (Charlton.)
*=Hitch off=. To release horses from work.--S.W.
*=Honey-pot=. A children's game, in which one child lifts
another.--S.W.
=Hop-about=. _Add_:--S.W.
*=Hopped=. Cracked, as a boiler, by heat.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Huck down=. To beat down in bargaining. 'I hucked un down vrom vive
shillin' to vower an' zix.' Formerly used at Clyffe Pypard, but not
known there now.--N.W.
=Huckmuck=. (3) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill). _Add_:--(4) _v._ To mess
about.--S.W.
*=Hun-barrow= (or =-barrer=). A tumulus.--S.W.
*=Hunger-bane=. To starve to death. See ~Bane~.--Obsolete.
'At Bradfield and Dracot Cerne is such vitriolate earth ...
[which] makes the land so soure, it bears sowre and austere
plants ... At summer it hunger-banes the sheep: and in winter
it rotts them.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 35, ed. Brit.
*=Idle=. Full of fun.--S.W.
=It=. Sometimes used in a peculiar way, as 'We'm best be gwain,
hadn't it?' or, 'We can aal on us ha' a holiday to-day, can't
it?'--S.W.
=Jack-and-his-team=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill); also
~Jack-and-his-team-goin'-to-pit~, the constellation's motion seeming
to be from Deverill towards Radstock collieries, as if it were a
farmer's team going by night to fetch coal thence.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Jag=. _Add_:--(2) 'Wull, to be shower, they chrysantums is
beautiful! They be aal in a jag!' i.e. all out in large heads of
flowers.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
=Jerry-shop=. A 'Tommy-shop,' conducted on the truck system, now
illegal. Much used about Swindon at the time the railway was being
made there.--Obsolete.
*=Jiffle=. _Add_:--Mr. F. M. Willis writes us that he once heard this
word used in connexion with a horse, when a bad rider who was pulling
its head about was told not to jiffle it.
=Job=, or =Jobble about=. To do little jobs. 'I cain't do moor'n
jobble about now.'--N.W.
*=July-flower grass=. See *~Gillyflower-grass~.
=Kiss-me-quick=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Lady-cow=. _Add_:--S.W.
=Lily=, or =Lilies=. _Add_:--*(3) _Ranunculus aquatilis_, L., Water
Crowfoot.--S.W. (Charlton.)
=Linnard=. A linnet, as 'a brown linnard,' 'a green linnard.'
Formerly used at Clyffe Pypard, where, however, it is obsolete,
the pronunciation there now being distinctly _Linnut_. Conversely,
_orchard_ becomes _archet_.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)
=Long-winded=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Lords-and-Ladies=. _Add_:--The purple spadices are the 'Lords,' and
the yellow or very light-coloured ones the 'Ladies.'
=Maggotty-pie=. _Add_:--At Deverill, thirty years ago, there was a
nursery rhyme as follows:--
'Hushaby, baby, the beggar shan't have 'ee,
No more shall the maggotty-pie;
The rooks nor the ravens shan't carr' thee to heaven,
So hushaby, baby, by-by.'
=Mandrake=. _Bryonia dioica_, L., White Bryony. The root is popularly
supposed to be Mandrake.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, Heddington.)
=Mask=. To collect acorns. A variant of _mast_.--N.W. (Potterne.)
=Melt=. The spleen of a pig, which forms a favourite dish when
stuffed.--N. & S.W.
*=Milkmaid's-Way=. The Milky Way.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Mimp=. To make believe, to sham. 'Look at she a-settin' up ther,
mimpin'!' idling, playing the fine lady.--N. & S.W.
*=Min=. An exclamation, used like '_snaw_, as 'I'll ketch thee,
min!'=Note that well. See Barnes, _Glossary to Poems_.--S.W.
(Deverill.)
*=Monkey Must=. _Melampyrum arvense_, L., Cow-wheat.--N.W.
(Heddington.)
=Mump=. To sulk. 'How ter'ble mumping she do look!'--N.W.
=Nammet-bag=. A luncheon-bag.--S.W.
=Neck-headland=. _Add_:--Common at Deverill.--S.W.
=Noddy=. Weakly, ailing.--N.W.
=Nog=. _Add_:--Also used of a lump of cheese, &c.--S.W.
=Not-cow=. _Add_:--S.W.
=Nuncheon=. _Add_:--About Salisbury Nuncheon is between 10 and 10.30
a.m., and again at 4 p.m., and is a very small meal, merely a piece
of bread and glass of beer, while Nammet is at 12, and is equivalent
to dinner.
=Off=. 'A can't be off puttin' up a covey o' pa'tridges, if so be as
a goes whoam athert Four-Acre,' i.e. he cannot possibly help doing
it.--N.W.
=Out=. _n._ The outcome or result of an attempt to do a thing. 'A
offered vor to do some draishin', but a made a ter'ble poor out
on't,' i.e. he had little to show for his labour.--N.W.
=Parson's nose=. A goose's tail, when served up at table.--N.W.
(Clyffe Pypard.)
=Peter Grievous=. _Add_:--Children who look as if they thought
themselves sadly 'put upon' by their elders are said to be
'Peter-grievous.'
=Pigs=. (2) _Add_:--In Berks woodlice are called _Church-pigs_.
*=Pimple=, =Pumple=. The head. Used by children.--S.W. (Deverill).
*=Pisty-poll=. A child riding with his legs on your shoulders is said
to be carried 'a pisty-poll.'--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Ploughing terms=. The first furrows ploughed are those 'veered
out' to mark the 'lands.' On each side of this 'veering out' furrow
a fresh furrow is ploughed, turning the earth into it. This is
'topping up,' or 'shutting the top up,' and becomes the centre and
highest point of the 'land.' When the 'lands' have been all but
ploughed, there remains between them a strip, two furrows wide,
still unploughed. This is 'the Ent,' and is halved by the plough,
one half being turned up one way, and the other half the other way.
There remains then a furrow just twice the ordinary width. The plough
is taken down this, and half of it is turned up again on one side,
the result being a narrow furrow some inches deeper than any other,
called the 'Zid-furrer' or Seed-furrow.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
=Plumb=. 'A plumb man,' an upright man, one who always keeps his
word.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
*=Polly Dishwasher=. _Motacilla_, The Wagtail.--S.W. (Deverill.)
*=Pot-hangel=. The same as Hanglers, q.v.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Prick-timber=. _Euonymus Europaeus_, L., Spindle-tree.--N. & S.W.,
obsolete.
'Prick-timber ... is common, especially in North Wilts. The
butchers doe make skewers of it,--because it doth not taint the
meate as other wood will doe: from whence it hath the name of
prick-timber.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 56, ed. Brit.
=Purry=. Turnips sometimes get quite 'purry,' i.e. become spongy
and bad and full of holes. Perhaps a contraction of _purrished_
(perished).--N.W.
*=Quag=. _n._ A shake, a state of trembling. 'He's all of a quag with
fear.'--S.W.
*=Quean=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Quob=. (2) _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Quobble=. _n._ and _v._ After being a long while at the wash-tub
a woman's hands are apt to get 'all in a quobble,' or 'ter'ble
quobbled,' that is, shrivelled and drawn and wrinkled up. See
~Sob~.--N.W.
=Ramblers=. Potatoes left by chance in the ground, which come up
again the next year.--N.W.
*=Rammil-cheese=. Cheese made of raw unskimmed milk.--S.W.
=Ramp=. _Add_:--(2) _v._ To rage, as 'My bad tooth just about ramped
aal laas' night.'--N.W.
=Ramping=. _Add_:--(2) Of pain, violent, raging. 'I wur in that
rampin' pain, I didn't know whur to get to.'--N.W.
*=Rook-worm=. A cockchafer grub.--Obsolete.
'I have heard knowing countreymen affirme that rooke-wormes,
which the crows and rookes doe devour at sowing time, doe turn
to chafers.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 67, ed. Brit.
*=Round market=. See quotation.
'Warminster is exceeding much frequented for a round
corn-market on Saturday.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 114,
ed. Brit.
=Ruck=. (1) _n._ A crease in a stocking, &c.--N.W. (2) _v._ To crease
or wrinkle up. 'My shirt wur aal rucked up under my arms, an' I
cudden' kip un down nohow.'--N.W. (3) Hence, to rub and gall. 'Thuck
ther new boot hev a-rucked she's heel ter'ble bad.'--N.W.
*=Ruddock=. _Sylvia rubecula_, Robin Redbreast. In common use at
Warminster, though unknown a few miles away.--S.W.
*=Rumpled-skein=. _Add_:--Used of a tradesman's books, when badly
kept and hard to balance.--N.W. (Glouc. bord.)
=Sankers=, =Shankers=, or =Sinkers=. Stockings without feet.--N.W.
See _The Scouring of the White Horse_, ch. vi. p. 128.
=Sar=. _Add_:--*(3) To earn. See note on Akerman, in Ellis's _English
Dialects_, p. 29.
=Scrinchet=. A scrap of food, a shred of stuff, &c.--N.W. (Huish.)
=Scroop=. (1) _n._ A saving or miserly person.--N.W. (2) _v._ To save
up, to screw and scrape.--N.W.
=Seed-furrow=. See ~Ploughing terms~.
=Serve=. See ~Sar~.
=Shacketty=. Ricketty, shaky.--N.W.
*=Shackle=. The straw covering of a hive. A sibilated form of
_Hackle_, q.v.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Shail=. To walk crookedly or awkwardly, to shamble along.--N.W.
(Clyffe Pypard.)
*=Shame-faced Maiden=. _Add_:--*(2) _Ornithogalum umbellatum_, L.,
Spiked Star of Bethlehem.--S.W. (Little Langford.)
=Shankers=. See ~Sankers~.
=Shatter=. To scatter, to sprinkle. 'Shatter th' pepper well auver'n,
do 'ee!'--N.W.
=Shattering=. A sprinkling. 'Put just a shatterin' on't.'--N.W.
*=Shirpings=. The rough grass and weeds by the river banks, which
cannot be mown with the scythe, and have to be cut afterwards with a
sickle.--S.W. (Salisbury.)
=Short=. Tender. Roast mutton ought to 'eat short.'--N.W.
*=Shreeving=. Picking up windfalls, &c., in an orchard.--S.W.
=Shrimpy=. Shrivelled, poor.--N. & S.W.
*=Shrovy=. Puny, as 'What a shrovy child!' Cp. _Shrievy_, applied in
Hants to stuff with some of the threads pulled out.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Shucky=. Rough, jolty: used of roads when the surface is frozen and
rutty.--N.W.
=Shuffle=. To hurry along. 'I wur shufflin' to get whoam avore dree.'
Cf. ~Shuffet~.--N.W.
=Sinkers=. See ~Sankers~.
=Slink=. Bad diseased meat.
*=Sloot=. To defraud.--N.W. (Berks bord.)
=Slox=, =Slocks=. (2) To wear out clothes by careless use of them.
Compare ~Hock about~.--N.W.
*=Slut's-farthings=. Small hard lumps in badly kneaded bread.
=Snake-stones=. Fossil Ammonites.--N.W., occasionally still used.
'About two or three miles from the Devises are found in a pitt
snake-stones (_Cornua ammonis_) no bigger than a sixpence, of a
black colour.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 45, ed. Brit.
'In this parish [Wootton Bassett] are found delicate
snake-stones of a reddish gray.'--JACKSON'S _Aubrey_, p. 204.
=Snug=. Well, in health, comfortable. 'I be main glad to hire as your
missus be so snug [is doing so well] a'ter her confinement.'--N.W.
=Sob=. To sodden with wet. Cf. ~Sobbled~.--N.W.
*=Split-house=. A joint tenancy?
'Whereas we ... being inhabitants of the town of Marlborough
... have ... for many years past, fed and depastured our mares
and geldings, two to each inhabitant not being certificate
men nor split houses, in the said earl's Forest of Savernak,
&c.'--1790, Agistment Deed as to Savernake Forest, quoted in
Waylen's _History of Marlborough_, p. 421.
=Spray=. To splay a sow, when set aside for fattening.--N.W.
*=Squailings=, =Squailens=. Ungathered apples.--S.W.
=Staid=. _Add_:--Sometimes applied to an old horse or other animal.
*=Stars-and-garters=. _Ornithogalum umbellatum_, L., Star of
Bethlehem.--N.W. (Heddington.)
=Starvation cold=. Extremely cold. See ~Starve~.--S.W.
=Steart=. (1) _Add_:--Used at Salisbury by a gas-fitter of the small
projection turned by the gas-key.
*=Stipe=, =Steip=. _Add_:--~Steep~.--S.W., still in use about
Salisbury.
*=Strikes=. Segments of iron for wheel-binding.--S.W.
=Stubs=. (4) _Add_:--S.W.
=Studdly=. _Add_:--also ~Stoodly~.
*=Sucker= (_Zucker_). A spout from the roof.--S.W.
=Summer-folds=. Freckles which come in summer time.--N.W.
=Tear=. _Add_:--Mr. Powell writes us that at Deverill this is still
used of breaking crockery, &c.--S.W.
=Teart=. (3) _Add_:--Acrimonious. _Tort_ in Aubrey.
'The North Wilts horses, and other stranger horses, when they
come to drinke of the water of Chalke-river, they will sniff
and snort, it is so cold and tort.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist.
Wilts_, pp. 23-24, ed. Brit.
'This riverwater [Chalke stream] is so acrimonious, that
strange horses when they are watered here will snuff and snort,
and cannot well drinke of it till they have been for some time
used to it.'--_Ibid._ p. 28.
=Terrify=. *(3) _Add_:--This is a Gloucestershire use of the word.
*=Thee and Thou=. (1) 'He thee'd and thou'd us,' said of a clergyman
who was very familiar with his flock.--S.W. (2) _v._ To abuse
violently, to insult a person by addressing him in the second person
singular. A man complained of the way in which his neighbours had
been abusing him, the climax of it all being reached when they began
to 'thee and thou' him.--N. & S.W.
=Thetches=. _Add_:--~Thatch~. _Vicia sativa_, L.--S.W. (Charlton.)
All vetches are known as 'Thetches' or 'Thatches' in Wilts, being
'Blue,' 'Yellow,' or 'Red' Thetches according to the colour of the
flower.
=Thread-the-needle=. A very complicated form of this
children's game is played at Deverill, under the name of
Dred-th'-wold-'ooman's-needle.--S.W.
*=Thunder-stones=. Nodules of iron pyrites. *~Hunder-stones~, q.v.,
may be merely a misreading of the MS.
'Thunder-stones, as the vulgar call them, are a pyrites; their
fibres do all tend to the centre. They are found at Broad
Chalke frequently.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 40, ed.
Brit.
=Tine=. _Add_:--(6) To collect and burn couch and weeds in the
fields.--N.W.
'What 'ould thy husband do ... if thee was too vine to turn
hay, or go tinin' or leazin'?'--_Dark_, ch. XV.
*=Tippertant=. A young upstart.--S.W.
*=Trip=. A brood or flock, as 'A vine trip o' vowels (fowls).' In
a MS. in the Bodleian a herd of tame swine is defined as a _trip_,
while one of wild swine is a _sounder_.--S.W. (Deverill.)
*=Tucky=. Sticky.--S.W.
*=Turning-the-barrel=. A game in which two children stand back to
back, locking their arms behind them, and lifting each other by turns
from the ground.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Under-creep=. _v._ To get the upper hand of by deceit, to overreach
any one.--S.W. (Britford and Harnham.)
*=Underground Shepherd=. _Orchis mascula_, L., Early Purple
Orchis.--S.W. (Charlton.)
=Unhealed=. See ~Heal~.
=Vitty=. Close, closely. Cp. _fitly_, Eph. iv. 16.--N.W.
*=Warning-stone=. _Add_:--
'The bakers take a certain pebble, which they put in the
vaulture of their oven, which they call the warning-stone: for
when that is white the oven is hot.'--AUBREY'S _Nat. Hist.
Wilts_, p. 43, ed. Brit.
*=Water-sparrow=. _Salicaria phragmitis_, the Sedge Warbler. Cp.
~Brook-sparrow~.--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Whinnock=. To whimper.--N.W.
=Whinnocky=. A whinnocky child is one that is always ailing and
whimpering.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
=White-livered=. _Add_:--S.W. (Deverill.)
=Winter-stuff=. Winter-greens.--N.W.
*=Witch-hazel=. _Ulmus montana_, Sm.
'In Yorkshire is plenty of trees, which they call elmes; but
they are wich-hazells, as we call them in Wilts.'--AUBREY'S
_Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 54, ed. Brit.
=Wrastle=. _Add_:--Measles, for instance, 'wrastles' all over the
face very quickly.
*=Zwail=. To shake about: to swing the arms.--S.W. (Deverill, &c.)