In the neighbourhood of Canterbury we have the following.
_Nail-bourn_ is the name given to an intermittent land-spring, showing
itself at uncertain intervals. There is one in the parish of Petham,
another near Sir John Honywood's at Evington, and a third at Barham.
_To chastise_ is commonly used in the sense of _to tax_, or _to charge_,
a man; and is probably a mere corruption of _to catechise_.
_Gazel_ is the Kentish word for the black currant.
To get _lucker_ means to get loose or flabby.
To _terrify_ is used almost universally for to tease, to irritate.
Φ.
I beg to forward for "N. & Q.," according to the suggestion of MR.
RAWLINSON, a few provincialisms. I know not whether my orthography is
correct, as I have never seen the words written, and therefore only
spell them according to the sound.
_Critch_ (Hants): any earthenware vessel; a jar.
_Dillijon_: a heavy two-wheeled cart. This word's similarity to the
French _diligence_ is apparent. I have only heard it at Fullerton, a
secluded spot in Hampshire.
_Rattlemice_[3]: bats.
_Scug_[4] (Hants): a squirrel. "Let's go scug-hunting" is a common
phrase.
_Yesses_ (Dorsetshire): earth-worms.
[Footnotes 3+4: [The words thus marked will be found in Halliwell;
where we also read _Esses_, large worms (Kent).--ED.]]