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SOTTOHIH* [soo-in], sh. the wailing sound of the wind befoie rain,
SOTTL-CAKE [soa-l], sb., ohsA a dole-cake for All-Sonls* Day, made of very light dongh, sweetened and spiced,
and of oval form.— PuLYERBATCH ; Wem.
SotU-cdkes were made as late as 1840 or
thereabouts, and dispensed, according to old-established nsage,
by Mrs. (Mary) Ward of Ohurton, a
truly venerable Dame, who, having
exceeded a century of age, died in Jan. 1853.
' Aubrey, in the Remains of Qontilisme, MS. Lansd. 227, says that in his time [latter half 17th cent.] in
Shropshire, &c., there was set
upon the board a high heap of Botd-cahes^lymg one upon another, like the picture of the shew-bread in the
old Bibles. They were about the
bigness of twopenny cakes.' — ^Bband's Papular AntiquUiei, voL i. p. 393.
* 8oul-ma88-Cdke8 are certain Oaten Cakes, which some of the wealthier sort of persons in Lcmcaahire,
Herefordshire, &c use still to
give the poor on All-SouU day {Novemh, 2), who take themselves obliged to say this old verse in
retribution,
€k>d have your Said, Bones and AIL'
Blottxt's Gheeographia, p. 598. See ^.
d; Q. (5th S., z. 426).
SOITLIHG. See Bk. IL, Folklore^ &c., 'Customs connected with Days and Seasons ' {All Soxd^ Day).
SGTJB-DOCBI, sb. Rumex acetoBa, common SorreL Com. Walter de Biblesworth says —
' Pur sauce vaut la aurele.'
' Sour-doJeke ' is given as the gloss of * iurele.' See Wr. vocabs., voL L p. 162. Cf. Sour-sauce, below.
BOTJBIll'G, sb. buttermilk put into cream to prepare it for the chum when not sour enough. — Pulvebbatoh. *In
winter- time a little eowrirC put i'
the crame-stean saves it [the cream] throm g^eln bitter, an' it parts sooner.'
SOTTB-SAIJCE, same as Sonr-dook, above, q. v. Com.
SPAH-GIJTTER, sb. a drain made by placing three common bricks against the £Etce of the coal, to carry off
the water to the ' sump.' The bricks
are so arranged as to form a triangle — one is laid flat, the others, at each end of it, slope upwards
till they meet at the apex. —
COLLIBEY, Old Park; M. T.
SPABABLES [spaar'-u'blz], sb. pi. shoemakers' ^sprigs' — small headless nails of brass or iron. Properly ^parrmo-biUey
firom their shape. — PiTiiVEitBATCH.
Qy. com. ' xo' mun get tuthi^ spcarMes
piit i' the 'eels o* them boots, else yo'n be runnin' all asiden.'
' Cob clouts his shoes, and as the story tells, TTia tiiiumb-nailes par'd, afford him
sperrdbles,^
Herricky p. 266, in Nabbs,
Amongst ' Nails without Heads,' Bandle Holme enumerates, * Spar- row BUIb, Nails to clout Shooes withaL' —
Academy of Armory, ok. m. ch. vii. p.
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SFASE-BIB [spaaVib and spaar'-i'p], sh. the rib of a bacon-pig after the flitch has been cut off. Com.
' The 8par-B%bs, the Bibs when they are cut from the eddes of such Pork as is intended for Bacon.' — Academy
of Armory, Bk. UL ch. iii p. 88.
Of. Bald-rib.
BPAEBXE [spaa-r'kl], eh, a spark. — Shrewsbury; Pclvbrbatch; Olxtn. ' Whad*s the matter 55th the child's
arm ? ' * Wy a sparUe fled out o* the
fire an' burnt ii ' * Whad'n'ee piit to it P ' ' ^me sinna- green an' crame» that's the best the thing
as I knowed on.'
* Chylde Florent yn hys f eyre wede
Sprange owt as aparkylle on glode.'
The Emperor Octavtauy 1. 962, Percy Soc., ed. 1844.
* Sparkle f of fyyr. ScirUilla, favilla,* — Prompt. Farv,
SPABLING [spaa-r'lin], sb, a thin, puny little child. — Polvbrbatch. ' Inna that child a eparlin' fur a six yer
owd P ' ' Aye, ifs a poor ayen.' The
term is sometimes used as a redundant adjectiye, — ' it's a poor, little eparliv^ child.' A.S. eposr,
spare + ^i^^9y & diminutive sumx.
BPABBOW-GEASS, sh. asparagus. Com.
SPATTLE - SPOTTLE [spat-1], (1) Shrewsbury; Pulverbatch; Elubsmerk Qy. com. [spotl], (1) Newport;
Ludlow, Bur ford, V. o. to splash. *
W'y 'ow yo'n dagged yore throck!' *0h, it inna much, it s on'y 9p(Med a bit.' A.S.
apdtlian, to &oth, fume.
is sprinkled or splashed with whitewash by means of a flat brush. — Ellesicere. Qy. com. ' Jenny, yo' g5o an'
axe Betty Dulson if 'er'U lend me 'er
Vitewesh bruisn to spattle the aister wuth^ — we maun 'iiye it clean 'gen Ohris'mas.' See
Aiater (1).-
(3) V. a. to pepper, — ^a sportsman's phrase. — ^PuiiVERBATCH. * Well, young fellow, weer han yo' bin all onder P
' ' Fye bin all round the ooppy, an'
the sidelant-leasow after quice.' 'Han'ee killed any?' ' Aye, I shot three, an' BpaUled tuthree
more.'
(4) V. a. to fritter away : said of money. — ^Pulyerbatch ; Wem ; Ellesmerb. ' Nancy Furber dunna mak' a very
good ¥ for a poor men's wife,
an' see the way *er apatUee 'er wag^ in bits an' dabs.' See Spattling-money, below.
8PATTLED, part, pasty sl.'^ slightly intoxicated. — ^Pulyerbatch ; Wem. * Wuz the Maister drunk las' night P *
* No, 'e wunna drunk, o'y a bit
epattled.' Of. Freah (1), also Totty.
SPATTLIHO-MOHEY, sh. same as Butter-money^ q. y.,— money which coming in small sums, is expended for
trifling purchases. — Pulverbatch ;
Weh ; Ellesmere. ' I say, Missis, yo^n too much spattlifC -money, I wunna a so much butter
sent to markit eyery wik, yo] maun try
an| get some more cheese from somew'eer; — thatll bring the money in, in a lump.' Compare '
spending siluer ' in Ihe following : —
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* ... 80 plesannt and so seroisable
Ynto the wyf , wker as he was at table. That she wolde snffre him no thing for to
paye Por bord ne clothing, wente he
neuer so gaye ; And spending 6i7tx«r
nadde he ryght yiiow.'
Ohaugeb, G. 1018 (Six-text ed.), Skeat.
Compare 8patU%ng{-7n<mey^ with ' Splarplynge or scateiynge (qxiHe- lynge . ., K.). Dissipacio* in Prompt,
Parv,
SPAUM [spann*], {I) sb. and v, a., var. pr. a span ; to span — as by the extended hiand. Qy. com. * That young
55man's mighty taper i' the middle,
yo' met'n apaun *er round.
' A.S., O.H.Qerm. ^pannan^ span {iendere, nederey — Stbat.
(2) $b.y pec measurement by paces, as of land, — 'that plack's about three rood by my «paun.' —
PiiLyEBBATOH.
(3) V. Ow, pec, to measure by paces. — IJnd, *'0w much tatoe ffround han'ee got this time ?' 'Well,
accordin' as I apaun it^ about four
rood — ^I dimna know whad thejr'n mak' it doth the chain.'
8PATTHEB [spau'nur'], sb, a turn-screw ; a ^ wienchy' used by black- smiths. Qy. com.
SPAWL fspau'l], v. 0. to slice off: said of wood, — a carpenter's term. — Clitn.
SPAWLED, part, adj, same as Shaked, q. v. — Shbewsbubt.
SPEECH, V, n. to bulge, as of a wall, — ' that wall speeches out abore a bit' — Clbb Hills.
SPICE-BALLS, same as Faggits, q. v. — Weh ; Ellbsxerb.
SPICT [spei'si'], ad/.^pec., «Z.1 smartly dressed. Qy. com. *I aid Bess at the Olub, an' onoommon spicy er wuz
— downright smitin.'
SPIOOT-STEAH, eb. a large earthen jar shaped like a barrel stand- ing endwise, and haying an orifice at the
lower end to admit a spigot Qy. com. *
Theer^s two or three little casks an' a spigoistean i' tiie catalogue, if they gwtm chep I should like
to '&ye em, they bin bo ready for
a drop o* wine or metheglin.' See Stean.
SPIKE-POLE, sb, a light pole furnished with a spike at one end, used to ffet down the loose portions of the
roof, when the miners cannot otnerwise
reach it for tne purpose of testing it. Oom. M. T.
SPILE [spei'l], sb, dross; rubbish. — Shrewsbury. Qy. com. A man complained that some * slack ' from
Short Hill was fuU of ' spQt^ that
would not bum. Of. Spoil.
SPIHK, sb, the Chaffinch. — Bridgnorth. Probably called Spinh £rom its alarm note. Qrose has * Spink, a
chaffinch. N.'
* Hie rasteUus, A* spynke,' occurs in an English Vocdbulary, in Wr. Yocabs., Tol. i p. 189. Dr. Stratmann
explams it as the * FringHla.* See
OhinJc^cliink.
SPINHET, sb, a small plantation. — ^Ludlow ; I^ewport.
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'. . . alasl alas! Had her horse but
been fed upon English grass, And
sheltered in YorkBhirer spinneys.*
Thomas Hood, Miss Kilinansegg, &o., * Her Accident.'
Mr. Halliwell says that * spinney, meaning a small plantation, occurs in Domesday Book.' From O.Fr.
espinnye, ' a thorny plot, place full
of briers,' Ck)tgraye; which is from JJat. spinitum, a thicket of thorns. Of. Ooppy, also Hay.
SPIHHIira STBEET TABV , phr. gossipping up and down streets or lanes instead of stopping at home to
work. — Shbewsbuby; PuLYKBBATOH. ' If
8 a sname to see that great wench spinnin^ streii yam awile the poor owd mother's lef to do
all the work.^
SPIRT [spui^tlyt;. n. to 'sprit' or sprout abnormally : said of grain, &0, Com. 'They sen the corn's spirt
sadly ; but it's no 65nder, the
weather's bin so muckery — ^it'll spirt standin' now if s ripe.'
' 1584-5. This yeare the somm and hanrieat tyme was so unseason- able that husband meen could not get in
their come but mutche of it was layd
flat to the grownde, and so by meanes spirtid, and whe' the reast that stood upp beinge ripe was rept,
yet by the reason of con- tynuaU
shures was mutche spirtid, and in hajst howsed scannt seasonid by w*^ unseasonablenes Rye that was beffore
harvist at 15 & l/6d the bushell
cam to ijs 4d the bushell and all othem grayne in lycke order and rate and so lycke to coom derer.' —
Early Chronicles of Shrews^ hury
{Taylor M8,), in Transactions of the Shropshire ArchceohgicaX and Natural History Society*
See Sprout, in Wedo.
SPIBT [spei-h'r'i'], adv. tail and weak, — ' shot up.' — ^Pulybrbatch ; Wem. ' I dunna like beans set among the
tatoes, they growen spiry an' bringen
nuthin'.'
* Svyryn\ as come and oJ>er lyke, Spico.* — Prompt Farv,
• W. spira^ to shoot up.' — Wedo.
SPIT, sb. a spadeful of soil in digging. — Much Wenlook. *Du. spiUen, to dig.'—WEDa.
SPITTLE, sb. a spade. — Craven Arms; Bishop's Castle; Clun; Glee Hili^; Corye Dale; Ludlow.
SPITTLE-TSEE, sb. the handle of a spade.— 76t(f. See Tree (2).
SPLATTDEBS [splau'dur'z], sb. pi. balls of ironstone as big as a man's hand, and as smooth as ^lass — *
sliken ' was the term employed by the
miner in describing their appearance : they are found in the Blue Flats.—Cou^lSRY ; M. T.
SPLEEHT [splee'ni'], adj. hasty ; irritable ; quarrelsome. — ^Wem.
* yet I know her for
A spleeny Lutheran ; and not wholesome to
Our cause '—IT. Henry VIIL, TH. ii. 99.
SPLOTHEB [splodh'ur'], t?. n. to ' make much ado about nothing.' — Clxtk ; Whitohtjroh ; Ellesmbre. * Oud
yore nize, whad bin'ee splutterin' an'
splotherin' about P — ^it maks me mr sick to 'ear yo.'
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SPLOTHEBrFOOTED, o^y. splay-footed. —Shrewsburt. Cf.Wasde- footed.
SPOIL Fspwei'l corr^ 8pwa'*yl], sh * debris/ as from excavatioiiSy taken aown building, &o. — ^Bishop's
Castle ; Clxtn. ' Theei^ be a flight
o* 9pw%U to nd away Ven the church is took down ; itil do capital to nil up the 'ollow between an'
the Church Bank/ — said with reference
to Clan Church [1875]. Cf. Spile. See W (4) in Grammar Outlines {conwnanU, &c.).
SPOKE [spoa'k], 8h, talk ; conyersation. — Shbewsbubt. * I hanna , 'ad no 9pche 6dth 'im about it, so I
canna teU whad 'e manes to do.*
SPOOHTLE [sp^on-tl], ah. a spoonful. Qy. com. 'Dear 'eart alive ! 'ow scaoe bann is — ^I've bin all
round the pariah, an' canna get a
spSdnileJ Bee * Nouns oompoimded with -fill' ia Granunar Outlines, p. tIiii
SPOT, (1) sb.f pec, a drop; a small quantity of liquid, — 'theer's o'ny a »poi lef ; ' — * 'ere drink this
spci,' Com.
(2) V, n. to fall in large, heavy drops, as rain does, in a pre- monitory kind of way, sometimes. Com. '
To'd'n better stop w'eer yo' bin a
bit, fur I doubt it's gwein to rain.' * Aye, if s beginnin' to tpot now, an' theer's thimder about, an' I
dunna want to be Ketcht in a posh o'
wet, so I 55nna start — ^nod yet 'owever.'
SPOTTnrO, part. adj. faUing in drops : said of lain, — 'it's spottin* o' rain.' Com.
SPOTTLE. See Spatfle (1).
SPOVT-BOAB, sb, same as Cnxigit, q. v. — ^Pulverbatoh, Arseott^ LongdeUy &o, M. T.
SPEAS [spr'ad'], pret. and part, past, spread. — Pulvbrbatoh. Qy. com. * Thev'n ^[frad the lime deapert thin
o' the 'arp-leasow — ^tvize as much
5da a done it no 'arm.'
< Thi body tfprod theron was. Fore
our syn sake.'
John Audelat'b Poems, p. 57.
'If oon seyde wel, another seyde the same;
So BprcMe of hir heigh bountee the fame.'
Chaucer, E. 418 (Six-text ed.), Skeat
Cf. Sprod.
SPEASE [spr'ai'd], v. a. and v. n. to spread. Qy. com. 'This butter 's aumust too 'ard to wrade.^
* A.S. Bprcedan; O.Du. tpreden; O.BLG^rm. epreitan, to spread.'— Strat. Cf. Sprede.
SPEASEE [spr'ai'dur'], ah, the staff of wood which holds out the chains of team-horses, and prevents them
galling their sides.— PuLVERBATOH. Qy.
com. C£ Stret-staft
SPEAO [spr'ag'], (1) v. n. to bulge, as in giving way : said of walk — Cube Hills. ' That owd waU 561 be down,
it aprags out most demendous.'
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' Dan. spraga ; Swed. sprakay to crack.' — St&AT.
(2^ v. a. to prop. — ^Wem. ' To* mun tak' a balk o' timber an* iprag up that walL'
(S) V. a. to prop the ooal while the men are ' holing.' Com. M. T. See Hole.
(4) Bh. a short wooden prop used by the 'holers' to support the oofu while they are at work. Com. M. T. '
The Mining Regulation Act' of 1873
requires that the sprag$ shall not be more than 6 ft. apart. Cf. Qib (1). See Bondsmen.
(5) V. n. to jerk : said of horses drawing in a team. — ^Wem. ' That cowt does nuthin' but •prog Veer 'e is, we
mun piit 'im i' the pin.* See Pin.
8FBEDE [spr^ee'd], v. a. and v. n, to spread. — Clun.
* pe blostme ginne)> springe and 9prede
Bo^ in treo and ek on mede.'
Owl and NightingaU^ 1. 437..
Dan. sprtde^ to sjMread, See Sprade.
8PBEHT, SPBinrr [spi^en-t], Ellesmebe. [spr'ant], Pulvebbatch; WoBTHEN, 9b, a sudden start or spring. *I
wu2 joggin' quietly alung Ven the mar*
gid a 9prunt an' throwed me rignt o'er 'er yed.' As a verb this word appears in both forms
in the early writers : —
' the greene Knight his head yp hent,
into nis saddle wightilye he sprenV
The Grene Knight, 1. 194. Percy Folio Jfflf., vol. ii. p. 65, ed. Hales and FumiyalL
^ See this sweet simpering babe, Sweet
image of thyself; see, how it eprtmU
With joy at thy approach.'
Ben Jonsok, Devil is an Ass, in Wedg.
8PBIHGE [spr'inj'T, (1) v, n. to bound; to spring. — Shbewsbubt; Pulyebbatgh. 'The child nearly springed off
my lap.'
'O.Fr. Espringer, espringier^ . . . sauter; de Tahal. springan, mdme signification.' — Bub.
(2) sb, a sudden, acute throb of pain, as of a toothache, a gather- ing, Ac — Shbewsbuby; Pulvebbatch. Qy. com.
'My tuth gid si^ a springe.^
SPBIHGEB [spr'ing'urn, sb, a rod used in thatching stacks. — EiiLBSKEBE. Jjangland has ' spring ' in the
sense of ' rod ' : —
' " Who-so spareth ]fe sprynge ' spilleth his children." '
Piers PL, Text B., pass. t. 1. 41. See
below.
8PBIHGLE [spr'ing'l], (1) sb, a twig; a small branch. — Pulyeb- batgh. ' The robin's singin' o' the Yery
topmust springle o' the plum- Iree.
* Sprynge, of a tre orplante. Planta, plantula,* — Prompt, Parv, 'A. Sax., O.Sax., O.H.Germ. spring, spring,
planta,^ — Stbat.
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(2) same as Springer, abore.— Ludlow ; EUiBSMESB, WeUhampton, CI Lug (3).
SPBIHG 0' THE TEAE, phr. the season of spring. Com.
SPEOD [spr*od'1,pre^. smd part, past, spread. — Clun ; Whitchubch. ' We bin epradin' the muck o' the squar*
meadow, we tprod it o* the other
isterd'y.' Qt Sprad.
8PE0ZE, 8PEIJZE [spr'oa-z], Wem. rspr'ooz'], Church Stretton, ah, a fuss ; a stir ; an agitation. ' Well,
I dunna mind tellin' yo' as I
'e&rd they 'ad'n notice to laye the fioLrm, but dunna yo' goo an'
mak* a gproze about it, fur I amma
sartin.' C^. Sprouze, in Hal.
SPBTJHT. See Sprent
SPUDS [spud-z], 8b. pi. potato^ets. — Bishop's Castle ; Clun.
BPUEHS [spur'n'z], 8b.pl. spreading roots of trees. — Much Wenlock.
' . . . and their root With long and
mighty »j)urna to gprapple with the land.
As nature would harre said, they shall for ever stand.*
Drayton's Folyolbion [a.d. 1613—1622], xxii. p. 11(H, in Nares.
Shakespeare has Bpurs in the same sense : —
* the strong-based promontory
Have I made shake and by the epura pluck*d up
The pine and cedar.' — Tempeat, Y. i. 47.
SftVABDEEED [skwaan-dui^d], part, past, dispersed. — Pultes- batch. Qy. com. *It seems no time senoe
they wun all little childem runnin'
about together, an' now they bin growed into men an* women, an' satiander^ up an' down tHe
country, an' the poor owd folks bin
lef* to tharselyes.'
' • . and other yentures he hath Bmjtandered abroad.'
Merchant of Venice, L iiL 22.
SftlTAEES [skwaa'r'z], sb. pi. hollow squares of iron averaging about six inches deep, used to hold the
ooal on the ' skips.' GonL M.T. See
Skip.
SQUASH [skwash*], v. a. to crush. Com. ' The wenoh 'as squashed one 'afe a the fruit I put *er to sether.'
< And thus some of them halfe dead, as being equaslied with huge weightie stones, or shot into the breast
with darts and arrowes, lay tumbling
upon the ground.' — Ammianiis MarceUintu, 1609, in Wb.
SQUASHY, adj. soft ; wateiy, as of fruit, &c. Com.
SftUAT [skwat'], (1) adj. stumpy; short, as compared with breadth, — • *0w equal it looks I ' — Corvb
Dale.
' . . . a little, wise-looking, equate upright, jabbering body of a tailor.'— Robert Burns, Letters, p. 630.
(2) adj. dose ; quiet, — * keep eqvMt theer.' — ^Ludlow. C£ Clnat.
SQUAWK [skwau'k], (1) v. n. to squeal, as children do, — ' 'ow them childern dun squaivk ! ' Qy. com.
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(2) V. n. to croak ; to make any disoordant noise. QLj. com. ' I 'e&d a noud toad aquawkin\'
SQiUEDGE [skwejj, pret and part, pasty squeezed. — Sheewsbury ; PuLYEBBATCH. Ct7. com. 'It's downright
disagreeable to shake 'ands ooth Will,
— ^e squedge my 'and tul the jints cracked.' Cf. Squoze.
8QUEEZE-CBAB, ah. a person of shrunk and withered appearance, — * a reg'lar owd «5t«e«Be-craA.*— Worthen.
8QXTELCH, SQTJEVCH [skwel-sh], Pulyerbatoh. [skwen-shl Wem, V. a. to allay thirst ; to quench. *
'&Ye a dish o' warm tay, it'll aquekh
yore thirst better than anythin'.'
'Fetche pitch and flaxe, and 9queneh iV^First Part of the Con- tention, p. 69, in Hai«.
8QXTELT [skwel't], v, a. to beat; to pommeL — Ludlow. Mr. Wright giYes ' aqitelt ' as a
Leicestershire word, in the same sense.
SQTJELTm'Gy sh. a sound beating, — ' 'e gid /im a regular good
$queltin\ ' — Ibid.
SftUufE [skw'ei-n], t;. n. to squint. — Oswbstbt.
' Lear, I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou equiny at me ? '— iT. Lear, IV. yL 140. C£ aiyde (1).
SftXJIHTEB-PIP [skwintur' pip], sh. Herb Bobert.— Pulyerbatoh, Ardcett, See Dragon's-blood.
BOmiLT [skwil't], (1) ah. a speck; a blemish : used with reference to the skin, and always in the negatiYe
form, — * the child's never 'ad a
aquilt on 'er.' Qy. com.
(2) $b. a Yery small quantity, as one woidd say, a speck, — * jest the laist squiU o' puddin .' —
^Pi^lyerbatch. Qy. com.
SftTTITCH [skwich*], (I) ah. Couch-grass. — ^Newport. See Soutch.
(2) sh, a light, flexible stick or rod. Qy. com.
(3) V. a. to lash with such a rod. Qy. com.
SftUITTOCK [skwit'uk], ah. a small quantity. — Pulverbatch. ' Pyo bin all round the parish 'untin'
barm, an' I canna get a squittocJ^.
SftlTOZE [skwoa'z], pret. ajid part, past, squeezed. — Newport. Cf. Squedge.
SBODE. See Shrewd.
8TA0,«&. a yearling turkey-cock. — Shrewsbury; Clee Hills; Wem.
STAOOEBDIO-BOB, ah. a Yery young calf, slaughtered.— Pulyer- batoh. Qy. com. * Wusf ee mane by 'aithen
[heatiien I] Yale, Dick P ' ' Wy that
cauYO ncYer 'eard the Church-bells, I'll swar — I canna bar ataygerin*-hob.' See SlinJc-veal.
8TAGH}EBS [stag-ur'zl, ah. pi. strong, well-grown thom-bushes, holly- bushes, &c.,— cropped for hedgerow
purposes— taken up by the roots
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and replanted, aometimes to make a new fence, but more frequently to fill up gape in an old one. —
PuiiVEKBATCH ; Wellington ; Wbm ;
Oswestry. Qy. com. * Dun yo' think that stagger-temce 661 grow P
' 'It mun see o'er another Ohns*
mas-Day afore I can tell; I dnnna like
to see staggers sprout out too soon — uiey canna sprout an' root'
* 1793. Deer. IS—Begun to repair our fences, which is much wanted. Bought a load of staggers from
Nuttree Bank to put in barren gapes.'
— Bailiff's Diary, Aston, Oswestry. Byegones, 1877, p. 316.
BTAO-WASVING, ab, a boys' game.^SHBEWSBUBT. See Bk. 11., Folklore, &c., * Oames.'
STAIL, sb, a handle, as of a hay-fork, broom, &c. Com. See Stele.
STAIBrFOOT-HOLE [staaT'fut oal], sb. the place under the stain, which in cottages is n^uently boarded in to
form a kind of closet— a general
receptacle for odds and ends. Com. * Sally, look fur my buzgins, I warrant they bin i' tlie
star-fUt-'ole w'eer everything gwuz.'
STAKED [stai'kt], (1) adj. affected with a painful tightness at the chest, caused by mdigestion. — Pulyerbatgh.
' Jack's bad.' ' Whad's the matter
66th 'im P ' < 'E's staked: ' No 66nder, 'e shouldna-d-a ete so much toasted cheese.'
* The brest with the stak. Arch. xxx. 413,' in Hal.
' In the North of France it is said of one killed or severely wounded, il a eu son estoque, he has had his
belly-ful ; from estoqtier, to cram,
satiate, ** stodge." Compare Ital. stucco, doyed.' See '
Glossarial Index* to Lancelot of the
Laiky p. 127.
(2) adj, seriously constipated: said of brute animals only. CL Steeked.
STALL. See Finger-stall.
STALLED [stau'ld and stau*d], (1) part, past, fixed ; set fast, as of a waggon on a heavy road, — * got statid o'
the bonk.' — ^WBLLnrGTOH ; Newport;
Wem.
' And has all thing within thy hert staUit,
That may thy 30uth oppressen or de&de.'
James I. of Scotland (a.d. 1423, area), The Kingii Quhair. Specim, Eng, Lit, iv. 170.
Compare Shakespeare's ' stdUd ' = set, fixed. — Lwsreu, L 1444. Sonndy xxiv. 1. i.
*■ Obstaculay wid-steallas,' occurs in Latin and Anglo-Saxon
Glosses^ xi. cent., in Wr. vocaba, voL
ii. p. 89.
*A,Sax. steall; O.Fris., O.Du., O.H.Germ. stal; O.IoeL staUr; . . . ate^fo.'— Strat.
(2) part, adj, staved from eating by being cloyed or satiated,^ ' the child oonna finish the piiddin'—
'er's staUed:^CLSR Hill&
' Or olio that wud staw a sow.'
BoBERT Burns, Poems, p. 72, 1. 2, c 2.
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STAHD, V. a., pec. to put ; to place, — ' staiid that stean o' the
setless.' Cohl
STAHDELF, sh,, oha. a stone-quarry. — Shrewsbury. The following
• Note* is taken from Owen and Bliakeway's History of Shrewsbury : — ' The word [standelf'] does not occur in
the Glossaries, and was perhaps
peculiar to Shrewsbury. In some extracts from deeds of the family of Scriyen, relating to lands in the Abbey
Foregate, Ib this passage : " In
campo foriete yersus BecdLcbury, altera yersus le Whyte stany-- del/ terram spectantem capelle Be. Marie in
AbbaUa Salop. 30 Ed. in." '— yoL
ii p. 462. SeeDelf.
STAJBfJL [stang'k], (1) eh, a stake; a pile. — Shrewsbury; Pulyer- BATGH ; Wem. * xo* mun plit tuthree etarika
i' the turn o' that bruck, an* wattle
'em well — ^it's plajrin' the bar 66th the meadow.* * Playin' the bar [bear'] ' is a phrase equiyalent to
' playing the deuce ! '
^An inundation that orebears the banks
And bounds of all religion ; if some stancka Shew their emergent heads, like Seth's
famed stone, Th* are monuments of thy
deyotion gone.'
Fletcher's FoerM, p. 167, in Nares.
' C£ O.N. stong; 0J3.GFenn. stanga, a bar, staff, pole,' in Wedo.
(2) V, a. to tether ; to tie to a stake. — Pulyerbatch ; WELLrNGTOir. ' Yod'n better gtank that cauye i' the
edgrow, else it'll mess more than it
ates.'
{3) V, a, to mark out with stakes the limits of any ground intended for indosure. — Shrewsbury; Pulyerbatch;
Worthen; Wbm.
* They'n atanked out the scoot w'eer they bin gwein to build the new 0chool-'us.'
(4) V. a. to shore up with stakes, as of the bank of a stream. — Pulyerbatch ; Wellington. ' Whad a pity
they dunna atank up that bonk, the
brack's tarrin' [tearing] that good meadow despertly.
(6) V, a. to dam. — Pulyerbatch ; Ludlow. * Stank the prill up as theer may be some waiter for the gis.'
' And atanck up the salt conducts of mine eyes, To watch thy shame, and weep mine
obsequies.'
Fletcher's Poema, p. 154, in Hal
{6)ab. a dam. — Pulyerbatch; Bridgnorth; Wellington. 'I see uiey'n out sods out o' the meadow an'
made a atank across the bruck, now we
shanna '&ye a spot o' dier waiter afore momin'.'
* And thane Alexander and hys ost^ went alle aboute that ryyere, and come tUle this forsaid atanke, and
luged thame aboute it' — MS. Lincoln,
A. i. 17, f. 28, in Hal.
Bailey— ed. 1782— gives * A Stank, a Dam or Bank to stop Water,' as a * North Country '^ word.
STASE [stae'i'], sb. 8tumus vulgaris common Starling. — Church Stretton.
' The atare wyl chatre and speke of long usage. Though in his speohe ther be no greet
resoun.'
Lydgate's Minor Foetna, p. 150.
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"*8tumu8, a stare," MS. Arund. 249, f. 90. ''Staare a byrde, estoumeaux" Pal^raye,* in Kal.
*A.Sax. steer; O.Icel. stari^ stare; sturnusJ — STRA.T. 01 Steer (2).
«
STABS [staa'r'z], ab, pi, var, pr. stairs. Com. 'My daughter brought the bed down *ere, Ma'am, 'er said
'er oouldna be comfort- able onless
'er did, — I might fall throm the stara^ 'er said, an' if I did it d6d be a lun^ way fur me to fiedl
'edlonga* Thus & poor woman
explained how it cama about thai her bed was in Iter living-room.
STABT [staaVtl, v. a,, pec, to dispatch ; to send away. Com. * I'm ffwein to Sosebry to atari a ampot to
poor Jack, 'e 5onna think it's lixe
Chris'mas if 'e dunna get summat throm wham.'
STABYE. See Clem.
STEAH [stee-n and stai-n], Com. [sti'-h'n] (obsols.), Pulverbatch, ah, a deep earthen vessel used for various
household and dairy pur- poses. ' I
bought a right good weehin' atedn fur a shillin' — should a *ad to gie more i' Sosebry, on'y the mon said
'e didna want to carry it back.'
' Two cream steeiu.^ — Audioneer'a Caialogue (Stoddesden), 1870. ' ' I'ar ys also whyt dey & reed, for
to make of crokkes & vteeMa k
oJ>er vessel.'— John of Teevisa (a.d. 1387), Description of
Briiain, Specim. of Early Eng., xviiL
a. 1. 46.
' Upon an huge great Earth-pot steane he stood, From whose wide mouth there flowed forth
the Bomaae Flood.'
Spensbb, F, Q.y Bk. YII. c. vii. at xliL
See Spigot-stean.
STEDSTAFF [stedstaf], same as Sprader, q. v. — Cleb Hili^. Cf. Stretstaif.
STEEKED, same as Staked (2), q. v. — Nbwpobt.
STEEEIiE [stee-kl], t;. a. to kill; to ' settle.'— Whitchubch. ''£ ateekled the rot i' no time.'
STEEP Fstee'p], (1) sK rennet — so called from being stepped or soaked oefore it is put into the milk. —
Ellesmebe.
Randle Holme gives * Eunnet or Steep ^ amongst | Terms used by Dairy People.' — Academy of Armory ^ Bk.
ni. ch. viii. p. 335.
Pegge bias ' Steep, rennet Lane' See ICavrskin.
(2) adj. lofty ; proud. — Pulyebbatoh. < 'E's a mighty aUep chap is young '65dcoclL' Layamon has * moni
aiteap mon.' — ^L 1532. 'A. Sax.
ateap; O.Fris. stdp, steep, oZtua.'— Stbat.
STEEB [stee'b'r'], (1) sb. an ox under three years of age. — Bishop's Castle; Cltjn.
• . . . eleven heefers, foure ateares, one bull.' — Inventory . . . Owl- bury Manor-House, Bishop's Castle, 1625.
* Aboute his char ther wenten white alauntz,
Twenty and mo, as grete as eny «<eer.'
Chauoeb, The Knightea Tale, 1. 1291, ed. MorrisL
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*H<ui. M.J lord, our anny is dispersed already : like youthnil gteers unyoked, they take
their courses Bast, west, north,
south.'— 2 JT. Henry IV., IV. ii. 103.
' Juyencus is a yonge oze whan he is no longer a calf, and he is then callyd a tAeert wmtn he begynneth to
be helpfuU unto the profit of man in
eringe the erth.' — DuUoguea of Creatures Moralyeed, p. 228, in Hal.
^ Anniculue, vel trio, steor-oxa,' and JuvencM, vd vittda, steor,' occur in Archbp, ^Ifri^s Vocabulary, x.
cent., in Wr. yocabs., vol. i. p. 23.
'A.Saz. aieor ; O.IL.Germ. itior ; Gbth. stiur, steer; juvencusJ — Strat. Cf. Stirk(l).
(2) ah. the Starling. Com. In the Churchivarden^ Accounts of 8. Mary's, Shrewsbury, for the year 1584,
is the following entry, — * For
hontinge steeres out of the churche, and polynge downe ther nystes at the same tyme, yij'.' See Stare.
8TELCH [stel-sh], (1) eh., obsols. stealth. — Pulverbatch. 'If the MaLster didna gie 'im the tuimits, 'e got
'em by stelch, fur 'e 'ad 'em, an'
tumped 'em.*
(2) sh. the post to which cattle are tied in the stall — Pultebbatoh ; Gleb Htlls. See Boosey-stake.
STELE [stee'l], ah. a long handle, same as Stall, q. v. — ^Ludlow, Bur/ora; Nbwpobt.
* And lemed men a ladel bugge * with a longe stele,*
Piers PL, Text B., pass. xix. L 274.
' And in his hand an huge Polaxe did beare,
Whose steaie was yron-studded, but not long.'
Spenseb, F, Q., Bk. Y. c. xiL st. xiv.
* Side, or stert of a yesselle. Ansa.* — Prompt. Parv. 'A«Sax., O.Du. stele, steal; scapus,
manubrium,* — Stbat.
STEV [sten*], same as Sprader, q. y. — Whttchitbch. Ci O.Fr. estendre; Lat. eostendere, to extend.
STEHT, sb. an allotted portion, as of work to be done in a given time, — * that's yore stent.' — ^Wellington
; Oollieby.
' Erythius, that in the cart fjrrste went,
Had euen nowe attaynde his ioumeyes stent.'
Thomas Sackvillb (a-d. 1663), TA« Mirrourfor
Magistrates, Specim. Eng. Lit., xziy. 6.
STEB [ste'iii^ = stair*], 8b. a star. — Pulvebbatoh. Qy. com. ' It's lef of rainin' an' the sters bin quite
bright'
*. . . *' I wil here witnesse, pat
)>o Hs bame was ybore * )>ere biased a sterre, That alle )« wyse of fas worlde * in o
witte acordeden, That such a bame was
borne ' in bethleem Gitee." '
Piers PI., Text B., pass, xviii. L 231.
* We han seyn his tterre in the eest, and we comen to worschipe him.' — Matt, ii 2. Widiffite version— ed.
a.d. 1388.
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* Sterre. Stella, sidua,* — Prompi, Parv.
•A.S. iteorra; O.Saz. sterro; O.H.Qenxi. $terro; (XIoeL itiama; €K)th. gtaimo, star, steUaJ' — Steat. See mb voce H, p. 190.
STEW [schoo* and sten*], 8b,, pec, a state of vezation, perplexity, or fear, — * I wuz in a fine etem,^ Com.
STICHE [stei'ch], t^. a. to set up ; to dispose, as of slieayes, &c,
in harvesting operations, — 'etiche up
them beans i' racks.' — ^Atcham; Wem.
* A.Sax. itihtan; O.Du, etichten; O.H.GFerm. etiftan, to dispose.'— Steat.
STICK [stik*], (1) sb.f pec, a timber-tree— either standing or felled— no matter how large it may be. — Cluk.
'1770. for luging 4 «<tcA» of Timber. - 6 - O.'—Churchwardeni Accounts, Hopton Castle (Salop).
(2) V, a. to kill by stabbing, as of pigs. Com.
' Thou fidlest, as it were a etiked swyn.'
Chauoeb, C. 556 (Six-text ed.), Skeat.
* StyhyrS, or slen. JugtUo,^ — Prompt. Parv,
A.S. etician, to stab, pierce. See StuokexL
STICKIVOS, sb. ply obsoU. pearrods. — Much Wenlook.
< 1800. May 5. Paid John Wall for Stickings, &o, - 2 - S.'— ParUh Accounte, Much Wenlock. A.S. sticoa, a stick, rod.
STILL OH*, conj, neyertheless ; notwithstanding. Qy. com. 'I toud 'em, an* toud 'em about latchin' that
wicket, an' atiU on ifs open every
time I e56 that way; but I'll piit the blacksmith's daughter [q. v.] to watch it.'
STIHQE [stin'zh], sb, a grudge. — Pulverbatch. ' I owed 'im a stinge sence 'arr^ost, an' I paid 'im afore
Chris'mas.'
STLn JlIHO-CO AL, sb^ an inferior coal underlying the Penny stone. — Collieey; M T.
' The Stinking-coal is noted for containing a great proportion of sulphuret of iron, thick seams or layers of
these pyrites running in it. In
consequence of this it cannot be used for smelting purposes.' ^Notee on the Shropshire Coal-Field, by T.
Pabton, F.G.S., 1868.
STINKIKO-BOOEB^ sb. Ballota nigra, black Horehound.— Ellbs-
IttExUS.
STIBK [stur'-k], (1) sb, a yearling bullock— Bishop's Castlb.
* Aud should some Patron be so kind,
As bless you wi' a kirk, I doubt na,
Sir, but then we'll find, Te're still
as great a Stirk,
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And when 76*16 nninb6r'd wi' th6 d6ad,
Below a grassy hillock, Wi' justice they
may mark your liead —
** Here lies a famous Bullock / *' '
BoBEBT BuBNS, Poems, p. 30, 1. 35.
*Juvencu$f styrc/ occurs in an Anglo-Saxon VocdbtUary, zi cent., in Wr. Tocabs., vol. i. p. 78. Of. Steer
(1).
(2) ab, a two-year old heifer. — Ellesmebe.
' Bucula^ juvenca, vitula, stixc/ is found in an Anglo-Saxon Qhuaryy z. cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. ii. p. 126,
* Styrky neet (or heefer, P.). Juvejica,^ — Prompt, Parv, Jamieson has * Stirk, Sterk^ a bullock or
heifer between one and
two years old.* A.S. styrc, itirc, a young homed beast
STnt-PXrDDIB'O, sh. a dish made by stirring flour into boiling milk, until it becomes a thick batter. It
is eaten with treacle or sugar, and is
sometimes served with a lump of butter upon it. Qy. com. A current proverbial saying — <to
eat stir-pudding with an awl ' — ^is
applied to work attempted to be done with unsuitable tools ; ' I mun g6o an* fatch a spade, if s no use
gwein' on $dth this mattock, as good
try **to ate stir-puddin* ddth an awl"'
STITHT [stidh'i'j, sb. a small anvil used by blacksmiths for fashion- ing nails upon.-— Shrewsbubt ;
Ptjlvebbatgh.
* As hit were dyntes of a atithi,
That smythes smyten in her smythi.*
Cursor Mundi, MS. VoVL Trin. Cantab, f. 138, 1. 23238.
* and the smy th
That forgeth schajrpe swerdes on his stith,*
Chauoeb, The Knightes Tale, L 1168.
Shakespeare uses stithy in the sense of a forge : —
* And my imaginations are as foul
As Vulcan's stithy.' ^Hamlet, III. ii. 89.
Pegge has * Stithy, an anviL York.'
'Incus, a smith's stiddie; ab in d cudo.' — Dtjnqjls'b Appendix Etymologice, a.d. 1595, E. D. S., B. ziii
* Stythe, smythys instrument. Incus.* — Prompt. Parv.
* O.Icell stem, stithy, incus,* — Stbat. See Study.
SXIYJSD [stei'vd], part, past, stifled, as by a close oppressive atmo- sphere. Qy. couL Stived is generally used
in oombmation with up. * A good blow
o' the 'ills does one some benefit after being stived up i the workshop so lung.'
Pegge has ' Stived, almost suffocated. Stived-up, confined in a hot plaoe. North.'
' O.Fr. estivS, loaden, or laden, as a ship.' — Goto.
SxiVJLHOt part. acy. stewing; stifling,— ' sit stivin' i* the 'ouse.' Qy. com.
gnVT [stei'vi'], adj. close ; hot, — * *ow stivy this room is, open the window.' Qy. com.
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STOCK [stok*], (!) V. a, to peck. — Pulverbatch; Clbb Hhjjs. ^ * !Fhat savage owd 'en 561 kill all these
young ducks, 'er jest ttocks 'em o'
the back, an' they bin done.'
* O.Fr. eatoc, estoch, esp^oe d'^p^e qui ne seryait qu' i peroer . . . de I'ahal, ttoeh, stoc, aujourdhui Uock,
ib., de itican, percer. De U eUocer,
eitochier, frapper de I'eetoc, frapper de pointe.' — Bub. See below.
(2) V. a. to stub up at the roots with a pointed implement, — * dockin* np gprst.' Com.
'The wild boar not onlj spoils her branches, but stocks up her roots.' — Decay of Piety.
8T0CKES, ah. an implement used for 'stocking* up turnips ; it has two prongs and a handle four feet long. —
Clee Hills; Lttdlow. Qy. conL
* Turnip stacker, &c.' — Auctioneer's CaUdogue (Stoddesden), 1870.
STODOE [stoj'], (1) sh. a thick, soft mass, as of spoon-meat. Com. ' Yo' shoulden p&t more suppin' or less
bread, it's a complate stodgt'
(2) V, a. to cram ; to fill to repletion, — ' regularly stodged,' Com.
ST0DOE-7TJLL, adj. quite full ; full to repletion,—^ 'e's gotten 'is bally stodge-fuU, any- way.* Com.
STODOT, (1) adj. thick, — 'dunna mak* the child's pap so stodgy.' Com.
(2) <idj\ stout ; fed up. — ^Pulyerbatoh. Qy. com. ' The Maister's gettm' quite stodgy; senoe the lads bin
growed up 'e sayes *imself a bit.'
STOSZH [stoa'kn], adj. stunted in growth ; impoyerished in con- dition : said of animals that haye been
badly fed and attended to,— 'a 'ealthy
young beast, in no- ways stoken.* — ^Wem; Elleshebs. Compare Gherm. stocken^ to stop, to
stagnate. Cf . Nucned.
STOKES'S-BEIDOE, sh. a stopping-point,—' Ah I little Jack's com« to Stokes' 8'bridge, I see,' t. e. has
eaten as much as he can, and most
leaye what there is on the plate. — Clee Hills. Cf. Staked (1).
STOMACHFTJL, (1) adj. high-spirited; plucky. — Clun ; Wbm; Ellebmere. * 'Er's a stomach/ul little
piece, 'erll be a match fur 'im any
day.'
' Disdayne he called was, and did disdf^yne
To be so cald, and who so did him call : Sterne was his looke, and/uZZ of stomachs
yayne.'
Spenseb, F. Q., Bk. n. c. yiL st zlL
(2) adj. prone to take offence ; resentful. — ^Wobthen.
8T0MBERED [stom'bur^d], part. adj. confused, — ' I got stomhered o'er it.' — CoLLiEBY.
STOMBEBUfO, part. adj. walking in a heayy, stamping, stumbling way.— PuLyEBBATCH ; Wem. * Yo' g^wun
$tomberin* alung like some foundered
owd 'orse.* Cf. Olontering.
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STOMBEBS, fb.j ohaoU. a term expressive of great surprise. — PuiiVEBBATCH. ' It gid me tlie stombers
w'en 'e toud me.'
8T00K [stoo'k], ah. a cluster of standing sheaves, usually an even number, as siz, eight, or ten. — ^Wem.
' Thus she stood amid the stooksy
Praising God with sweetest looks.'
Thomas Hood, Ruth.
Ghrose has ' Stooks, A collection of sheaves of com, being ten set np together, and covered by two. N.' 'liOW.Du. 8tukey stock, a^rii^a.'—
Strat. C£ Stuck (1), also Mow (1). See
Thrave.
STOOP [stou'p and stoo'p], v, a. to tilt or incline a barrel so as to
five a readier flow to its contents. Com. 'Dunna yo* ttoup the arrel till I come an' 'elp yo', else we
sha'n a the drink muddied'
* Stowpyn\ Indino,^ — Prompt, Parv.
' N. stdypay to cast down ; stupa, to &IL Sw. stupa, to incline, to lower, to falL Stupa en tunna, to tilt a
cask.' — Wedq.
STO&M, ah,, pec. a hard frost — ^Worthbn, Cherbury. Cf. Tempest.
STOSM-BIBDS, ah.pl. Seagulls, or other oceanic birds. — Ellesmerb.
STOEMCOCK, (1) ah, the Fieldfare.— Pulverbatch, Hanwood, Cf. Snowbirds. See Fildefiare, also Shredcock.
(2) $b. the Green Woodpecker. — OjjXJN, Twitchen, See Haihow.
(3) ah, the Idissel-thrush. — Oswestry. See Thricecock, also Missel-bird.
STOXTK [stou'k], ah. a handle, as of any wooden or earthenware vessel. — Pulverbatch; Oswestry. *Whad,
another jug crippled I — theer*s one
56th the nose off, an' another 5oth the atouk off-— we shanna '&ve a tidy jug lef , jest now.' Grose has ' Siowk, The handle of a pail.
N.'
STOTJL [stoui], (1) ah. the stump of a copse or hedgewood tree cut down nearly to the ground, and occasionally
springing forth anew. Com. * NoDody
66d think that Coppy wuz fell three 'ear ag6o, every atotd 's send up sich a lot o' sprouts, yo'
canna 'ardly get through if ' *' To go
a stooling, signifies to be employed iq woods, generally without the owner's leave, in cutting up
such decayed stools, or stumps, or
moots for fuel." — MS, Devon. Gl,,' in Hal.
* Lat. siolOy'nis, a shoot, sucker.' — Wbdo.
(2) V, n. to ramify, as of young com. — Shrewsbury ; Atoham ; Wellington ; Wem ; Ellesmere. Qy. com. * It
inna begun to atoul 3rit, but gie it
time an' if 11 shak' *onds ' : said of winter wheat looking very poor.
* I worked very hard in the copse of young ash . . . cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close
together.' — R. D. Black- ^ORE, Lorna
Doone, A Komance of Exmoor, p. 230. ed. 1878.
Cf. Oether.
STKABEBBT [str'ai-bFi'], ah., ohaola. a strawberry. — Pulverbatch ; Bredonorth.
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* The ayng greyn blomyt straherry levys among.'
Gawin Douglas (a.d. 1513), Prol. of the XIL Buk of Eneados, Bpecim^ Eng, LU,^ ziiL 1. 120.
' Hoc Btragumy A* strabery/ occurs in an English Vocabulary^ zr. cent., in Wr. yocabs., yoL i. p. 192.
STRABESKT-WntES, «5. p?., olmU. strawberry-ninners. — Pulyebt BATCH ; BamaNOHTH. * Well, John, now
'arrSoat 's o*er, I 'ope yo'n get a
bit o' time i' the garden — the sirSb^ry-unres bin all across the alley, somebody 561 be breakin' thar neck
some o' these days.' See Wires.
STKAPE [str'ai'f], (1) ah. a stray animal — Pulvbrbatoh; Cobyb Dale; Clee HnjiS; Much Wenlogk; Wellinoton;
Oswbstbt.
* Theer's a nice yerlm 'eifer i' the lane, as I spect's a dra/e; pi&t
'er i' the croft, be'appen somebody
551 own 'er jest now.'
* weyues and streyues* — Piera PL, ProL L 94.
(2) ih. a worthless kind of fellow.— ^Cobve Dale; Clee Hillb.
* Well, owd Btrafe, Veer'sf ee bin f * — said to a man who had left his work without notice, and then returned to
it
STRAIGHT- OBOWED, adj. well formed in figure, — 'tall an' straight-grawed.' Qy. com.
STBAEE, STROKE [str'ai-kl, Craven Arms ; Church Stbbtton. [str'oa-k], Pulverbatch. [struck*], Wem;
Ellesicere, ah. a sec- tion of the
iron band that encompasses the wheel of a cart or waggon ; it is usually two feet in length,
and about half the widtix of a large
strong wheel: supposing therefore such a wheel to be three feet in circumference, it would
require six atrakea to go round about
it.
< CanthuSf the iron wherewith the cart wheel is bound, the atrabe of a cart.* — Diet. Etym. Lai,
* The Stroke is the Iron Rim about the Felloes.' — Academy of Armory , Bk. m. ch. iii p. 332.
STRAMMEL. See Sorammel.
STRENTH [str^en'th], ah. a term used to denote working power in the number or capabilities of the
labourers. — Pulverbatch. Qy. com. * I
dunna know 'ow 'e manes to get 'is 'arrttost in, w'y *e*s got no atrenth about 'im — that owd mon aumust
in 'is two-double, an' them two or
three lads 'ill be now'eer.'
STRET [str'et'], adj. tight. — Pulverbatch ; Ellbsherb. * Yo' mun ntit that cheese-fiUet on as atret as yo'
can get it, else the cheese 11 Dulge.'
* Streythe (streyt). Artua.* — Prompt. Parv. See Stretten.
STRET-STAPP [str'et- stu'f], same as Sprader, q. v. — Wee. 'The Strett Staff e is the StafPe fixed
between the Chains or Bopes to keep
them horn gauling the Horse sidea' — Academy of Armory, Bk. m. ch. viii. p. 339.
Stret-ataff = atretch-ataff, or else atrait-ataff. See Stret, abora Cf. Stedstaff.
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STBETTEV [str'eirn], v. a. to tigliten. — Pulvbrbatoh; Wbm; Ellbsme&e. < The saddn* o' this bed
wants itret^nin\ an' we mun stretten
it afore it*s made np.'
* Streytyn\ or nuike streyte. Arto,^ — Prompt Parv,
STSICKLE [str'ik'l], sh, ohs. a wooden implement for striking off an even measure of com. — Pulverbatch.
*ffoc (Mortum, a strikylle/ occurs in a Nominalef xy. cent, in Wr. Tocabs., vol. i. p. 233.
Mr. Wright explains it as * A itrickle^ or piece of wood for levelling the com in the measure.'
See BwogglB.
STSICXXESS [str'ik'li'sj, same as above.— Clee Hills.
* The Strickles la a thmg that goes along with the Measure, which is a straight Board, with a Staff fixed in
the side, to draw over Oom in
measureing, that it exceed not the height of the Measure. Which measnreing is termed Wood and Wood? —
Academy of Armory, Bk. HI. ch. viu. p.
337. See below.
STRjJus [str^ei'k], (1) v. a., ohs, to level the com to the top of the measure with the * stridden: — Glee
TTtt.ta.
' '* It's an ye wed the nut-brown girl,
m heap gold with my hand ; But
an ye wed fair Annet, m strike it with
a wand." '
Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, in Pebot's
Reliques.
'A.Sax. striean; O.Du. striken; O.H.Germ. stricheny to strike, Biringere, radere, eaedere.* — Stbat. See b^ow ; also Strucken.
(2) sh. a bushel measure ; a bushel : so called, it would seem, from the usage of striking off the measure of
com evenly. Oom.
' The Come, Imprimis, twenty strikes of Rye, fowreteene & forty sttrikes more, two bushells of barly,
twenty-six bushells of oates. Bye
unthrasht. Rye upon the grownd, Iji* ix.* iigd*.' — Inventory . .
. Owlbury Manor-House, Bishop's
Castle, 1625.
'Winff, cartnaue and bushel, peck, strike readie hand.' — Tussbb, Husbanalie furniture, p. 35, ed. £. D. S.
' Some men and women, rich and nobly borne,
Gkive all they had for one poore strikis of come.'
Taylor's Workes, 1630, L 15, in Hal.
' A Measure, an Hoop, or a Strick, is 4 Pecks, or 9 Gallons. Yet some reckon but 8 sallons to the Measure,
which in some places is also called a
Bushel' — Academy of Armory, Bk. III. oh. viiL p. 337.
See Weights and Measures, p. Ixxxv.
[3) V. a. to move, as with a lever, — * w'y conna yo' sitrike it a bit P
* ^LEE Hills.
— Cj
8TBIHE, sb. a watemshannel. — Wellington; Newport. The &trines on the Weald -moors receive all
the smaller drains as tributaries.
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STRIP, V. a, to draw tlie last milk from a cow. — ^Clvn. Cf. also Stroke (2), below.
STBIPPIHOS, sb. the last milk drawn from the cow. — Ibid. Cf. Drippings, also Strokings, below.
STROKE, (1). See Strake.
(2) ch».? same as Strip, above. — Pulyesbatch. 'The ICssis always gwuz roimd 56th the milk-bowl
^erself an* strokes^ the cows, an' if
'er gets it more than 'afe full, yo'n be apt to 'ear on it.*
' Jone takes her neat nibVd pail, and now
She trips to milk the sand-red Uow ;
Where, for some sturdy foot-ball Swain, Jone itrokes a SiUibub or twaine.'
The Gompleat Angler, oh. L p. 35, ed. 1653.
Qrose has ' j6f<roa^«fi^. liGlking after the calf has suckled.
Exmoor."
STBOKIHOS, obs. f same as Strippings, above.— TZ^^rf.
'Afterincrs, the Stroakinoi, or last that is Milkt from a Cow.'— Academy of Armory, Bk. II. ch. ix. p.
173. See ▲fterings.
STBOVO [str'ung'], adj., pee. full; whole. — Shrewsbury. (1) * Joiner, this door isn't two inches thick, is it P '
* Well, Sir, it*s a strung indi an'
three-quarters.' (2) * We*n ta'en a lodger, Ma*am, senoe I sid 3ro' last, but I doubt we ^lA^nT^n. mak' much
out on 'im at ten shillin' a wik —
'ell sit down an' ate a strung 'our.'
STBTTCKEir [sit^uk-nL part, past, obsoU, struck off: said of com in the measure. — Glee Hills.
Milton emplojrs the same participial form — ^9trwken mute' — ^in Paradise Lost, Book IX. L 1064. See Strike
(1).
STBTTXPLE [str^um-pl], ab., obs. % the fleshy stump of a horse's taO left after * docking.'— iruLVERBATOH. Qy.
com.
STUB [stub*], ^1) sb, a stump, as of broom or gorse which has been out down to within a few inches of the
ground. Com. ' We'n g5o as fare as the
Brummy leasow, an' get a fyeow stubs awilde a bin cu*y.'
' jet ^u singst worse ^an )^ heisugge pat
flih^ bi grunde a mong )>e etubhe.^
Owl and Nightingale, 1. 506.
' Then to the earth shoe gott a thawacke ;
no hurt in the world the pore man did meane ;
to the ground hee cast the Ladye there ; on a stuhh shee dang out one of her eyen.'
Marke moreffoole, L 52. Percy Folio MS., yoL iii. p. 129, ed. Hales and FumivalL
'A. Sax. styhh; O.Icel. stulhi; stub, stipes.' — Stbat.
(2) sh, a worn-out nail drawn from a horse-shoe. Com.
STUCK (1), STTJCKLE [stuk*, stuk-1], sb. a cluster of standing shea usually six.— Craven Arms. See Stook.
STUCK (2), pret stacked. — Ludlow, Burford.
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STUCKEV, part, poet, stuck = stabbed = killed,—' the batcher's stdoeken the pig.' — Newport. It may be
noted here apropos to killing ings,
that the process of * dressing * them after they are slaughtered, varies in different parts of Salop ; in the
North-— indeed throughout the greater
part oi the County — ' they scauden *em, an* 'an^en 'em up by the 'eels, — ^back to the wall ; '
but in the East and Soum East, as
about Bridgnorth and Cleobury Mortimer, * they swingen 'em (by laying straw under them and setting it on
fire), and then they 'angen 'em up by
the nose, — ^bally to the wall.' See Stick (2).
8Tin)T, same as Stithy, q. v. — Clun.
STuMP, V, n. to step heavily ; to stamp, — ' 'eart alive ! 'ow that wench does stumpj Com.
8TTTBLT [stur'H'], adj. stiff; standing up; staring: said of the hair or coat of an animal. — Wem. *I spect
that cow's ketcht a oooth, 'er coat's
all sturly like.'
SUBSIST, 9b, part payment in advance for work. — Pulvbrbatch, Snatlheach; M. T. See Sist (2).
8TTCCAM0BE [suk*u'moa''hV], sb., var, pr, Acer paeudo-platanus, the Sycamore. — Shbewsbubt; Pxtlvesbatoh ;
CbavenAams. Qy. com.
STTCCOTJBFDL [suk'ur'ful], adj. yielding shelter. — Pulvbrbatch; Chttrch Stretton. a man who was advised to
take up a hed^ which occupied much
ground, objected to do so, on the plea that it was * mighty 9uccourfuV for the cattle
lying out in the winter. Another man —
a groom — riding through the Southern part of Shrop- shire, observed in reference to its
undulating character, that it was ' a
mighty siuxourfvl county.'
SUCK, sb.y var. pr. a wrought-iron ploughshare, — 'a sock.' Com.
' The Sou^ or Suck^ is that as Plows into the ground.' — Academy of Armory, Bk. HI. ch, viii p. 333.
'Drilled Prussia, compact, organic in every part from diligent plough-Aoc/; to shining bayonets.' — Thomas
Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of
Prusna, voL ii. p. 302, ed. 1869.
'Er. 80C, a ploughshare. O.Fr. soc, sock, soc* de soceus^ ainsi nqmm^ k cause de sa pointe recourb^e oomme
oelle d'un Soulier.' — Bub.
8TJCEESS, Sinr.STTCKEBS, sb. pi. the sun's rays as they sometimes appear in showery weather,— popularly
believed to suck up the water m>m
the earth into the sun, there to be converted into rain : and held to be a sign of coming showers.—
Pulverbatch ; Church Stretton ;
Welmnoton. * We sha'n a more rain, the sun's got 'is suckers down.'
SUxtY Fsoo'ti'], adj. even; regular. — Worthen; Cleb Hills. ' The wefit dunna come up very suityy
be'appen the sid wimna good ' Cf.
Shooty.
SULLnrOE [sul-inj], (1) sb.^ var. pr. a syringe. — Shrewsbury • Pulvbrbatch. '
(2) V. a. to syringe. — Ilid. ' 'Er's gwein to the Doctor to get 'er ears sullinged.*
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SUVHEBED [sum-ur'd], {l)part. adj. well fed at grass. — Pulveb- BATCH ; Wem ; Ellesmere. ' That 'eifer
looks fresh, I spect Vs bin 9ummered
pretty well.*
(2) pari. adj. beer is said to be summered, when, from haying been over-hot during the process of
fermentation, it has acquired a peculiar
singed taste. — ^Pulverbatch ; Wem. * This drink's «Mmmcr«i,
Missis, I spect yo'n put it together
too 'ot.' Stammered is to beer what * mouj-
Imrnt ' is to hay.
8TTMP, sb. a hole at the bottom of the pit-shaft, to receive the waste water of the workings. Com. M. T.
SUH-SPECBXES, sb. pi freckles.— Shrewsbury. See Fan-peckles.
STJH-8TTCKEBS. See Suckers.
SUP (1), y. a. to drink, as it were at a draught, — 'mak' 'aste an* sup that up.' — Shrewsbxtry ; Newport. Qy.
com.
' 3 pottles of wine in a dishe they
supped itt all off, as I wis, all
there att their partinge.' John de Reeue,
L 627. Percy Fclio M8,; vol ii. p.
583, ed. Hales and Fumivall.
* Suppynge al vp, or al owte. Ahsorbido.^ — Prompt. Parv. A.S. shpaUi to orink, to drink to excess.
(2) sh. a drink, enough for one draught. — Ibid.
(3) V. a. to feed animals at night. — ^Ludlow, Burford.
* Lord, Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds.
But sup them well, and look unto them all :
To-morrow I intend to hunt again.'
Taming of the Shrew, Induction, L 29.
See Sup-up, below.
SUPPIHO, sb. spoon-meat of any kind, but more especially milk and water boiled and thickened with oatmeaL
Com. ' Maister, our new cowman's a
rar* cratcher, whad'n'ee think 'e pfit out o' sight this momin' P — ^first 'e ete a cantle o'
suppin\ then a *eeler o' bread on'
cheese, an' after that a apple-ftlt, rump an' stump ! * Grose gives * Suppings. Broth, &c.
Spoon-meat. N.' Calves' supping is
food that they can suck up, made with linseed, either crushed or whole (instead of
oatmeal), in milk and water or sach
like. A.S. siipany to sup, suck up.
SUPPLE. See Soople.
SUPPOSE, V. n., pec. to know with certainty. Com. *I suppose the days 55nna be much lunger now, we bin
dos' on Midsimimer, an' iVs as coud as
March: ' — said June 20th, 1880.
SUP-UP, V. a. to feed and * bed-down ' animals about eight o'clock at night^NEWPORT; Wem; Ellesmbre. Cf. Sap
(3), above; also Fother (2).
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SXTSBEY [suVi'], sb,, var, pr. Sirrah, Com. A title of address sometimes enlarged into * Surrey lad,^
SWAG [swag*], (1) V. a. to sway, as of a heavy load of hay, &c., badly put on the waggon. — ^Pxjlveebatch. *
See, Surrey, *ow that load swagSy it
55nna oud wham, an* we sha'n lose our 'arroost go'se/
* O.IceL 8veigja^ to sway, bend/ — Strat.
See Bk. IL, Folklore^ &c., * Customs' {harvesC),
(2) V. a, to incline heayily to one side. — Ihid. * This basket's a despert 'eft to lug all the way to
Dorri'ton, it farly swags me down.*
(3) tib, the inclination given to one side by a heavy weight. — Ihid, * I like the owd Missis to sarve me, 'er
gies a good »wag to the scales,
but as to owd Snipe, *e canna find in 'is 'eart to gie the right weight.*
8WA0E [swai-j], (1) v. a. to reduce, as of a swelling or tumour, by external appUcations. — Pulveebatoh.
*Yedfiirt's ancler wuz swelled
oncommon bad, but I put some pultis to it, an' it swaged it away.'
* This sely man contynued his outrage.
Til alle his goode was wasted and gone ; And they felt his expenses swage, And were to hym vnkynde right anone.*
Thomas Oocleve (a,d. 1420, circa), De Regimine Principum. Specim, Eng, Lit, H. 601.
' SwagyngCy or secynge. LaxacioJ* — Prompt. Parv^
* O.Fr. assoimger, adoucir, apaiser.* — Bur. Cf. Sway (1).
(2) V, a, to disperse, as of milk in the mammse. — Ibid, * Bub the elder well 66th. g^ze-ile to swage the milk
away.* Of. Sway (2).
SWAVET [swaang-ki'], sb., el A very weak small-beer. Qy. com.
SWAPSOH* [swop'sn], sb, a big, coarse woman. Com.
SWAB [swaar^*], v. n, to swear. Com. 'That's a ninted young pippin — nod seven yer owd, an* *eTl swar
like a trooper.*
* And the seyd Fastolf, mevyd and passyoned gretely in his soule, seyd and swar . . .' — Paston Letters, A.D.
1468, vol. ii. p. 324.
SWABM [8waar''m1, v, a, and v. n., pec, to climb a tree or pole by embracing it with the arms and legs. Com. *
Theer wuz no Sosebry Show this *ear
[1880], but they gotten up some bit of a sham mr pass-time in a fild — ^putten lads to swarm
gracy poles, run races, an* some
ffammocks to tice a lot o* folks to the Jrublic*
< « I know of a carrion crow's nest in the wood at Middleton, but it is up a tall fir tree, without any branches
for a long way, and my arms are not
long enough to clasp around the trunk and swarm up." * — G. Chbistopher Davies, Rambles and
Adventures of Our Scnool Field' Club,
p. 29, ed, 1875.
' He swarmed up into a tree, Whyle
eyther of them might other se.'
Syr Isenbras, 351, in Hal.
SWAT [swat-], ^1) tfft. sweat. Com. * I carried three 'oops o' com to ' Abberley mill, but it gid me a swat ;
I wuz 'bliged to bring the
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flour back, but I lef the bran fiir John to biing at night.' A.S. swdt, 0weai Of. Swelter (2).
(2) pret, sweated, — * 'e n«rt o'er that job.' Com.
* His faire steede in his prikin^
So swatte that men myghte hun wringe.*
Chaucer, B. 1966 (Six-text ed.), Skeat
' yet did he labour long.
And iunU, and chauf d *
Spenseb, F. 0., Bk. V. c. ii st xlvi.
* Some, lucky, find a floVnr spot, For
which they never toil d nor nuaV
BoBBBT Burns, Foems^ p. 35, L 26.
A.S. sufdhan, from nodt, sweat.
SWATH [swath*], eb. the row of grass as it falls beneath the scythe. Oom.
* With tossing and raking and setting on cox.
Qrasse latebe in Bwathes is hay for an ox.' TirsSEBy Fine Hundred FoinUa of Good
Hxuhandrie [July].
* The 9wathe or strake of grasse, as it lyeth mowne downe with the sithe. * — Nomenclator.
* SwfUhe^ of mowynge. Falcidium,'' — Prompt. Parv.
* A.Sax. 9wa%u ; O.Du. 9wade, swath, tttriga,* — Stbat. See Weights and Measures, p. xciiL
SWAT [swai* antf swee*], (1) same as Swage (1). — Wem; Whit- OHUBCH ; Ellesmere. ' To' maun try an' twee
away that sweUin' o' the cow's side
wuth butter-milk an' gddze-ile.' C£ Sween.
(2) same as Swage (2).
SWAT-POLE [swai-], same as Oay-pole, q. v. — Worthbn.
SWATL-POLE [sweil* corr. swaayl* pul], Idem. — ^Pulverbatch. * I should think that wench is one o' the
onaccountables — ^wha'n'ee think 'er's
done ? ' * I dunna know.' * Wy pfit gorst o' the fire, an' btunt the awayl'pul down, an' theer's the oauyes*
suppin' all o'er the brew-'ua.'
SWEDLESS [swed'lis], sb. an infant's swaddling-band. — Shrews- bury; Pulyerbatgh; Church Stretton;
Ellesmere. *Hanna yo' lef off the
child's awedless 3rit ? ' * No, I never laye 'em off tell they tak'n thar fit, 'cause it strenthens
thar back.' A.S. stoeM^ swML — Idem,
SWEEH, same as Sway, above.— Newport.
SWEEPS, SWEEPS'-BBTTSHES, ab. Luzida campesMs, Field Wood- rush. — Shrewsbury, Uffington,
SWEETIHO fsweet'in], adj, a term equivalent to willing, as applied to doing work — ^Wem; Ellesmere. 'That's as
aweetin' liokle cowt as ever wuz ptit
in skin,' said a Welshampton man of a horse —
' comin' three — that was drawing the harrows.
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8WBLTES [sweHor'], (1) v. cl and v. n. to oppiess witii heat, by any means ; to be made exoesaiyely hot. Oom.
* It's time to lave off that flannen
swedless, iVU swelter the poor child sadly.'
* If the Suns excesaiye heat Makes our
bodies swdter. To an Osier hedge we
get For a friendly shelter.'
The CompUcU Angler^ ch. xi. p. 211, ed. 1653.
Compare 'Swalteryn* for hete , . . Exalo, eincopizo,^ — Prompt. Farv, A.S. $wilan, to burn.
(2) sib. a state of excessiye heat. Com. ' I ohumed three 'ours an' ft 'afe this mornin', an' it put me in a
fine swelter I can tell yo'.'
' .ASsitUy vel cauma, swolot,' is found in the SupfUement to ^Ifru^s Vocahularvy x. or xi cent, in Wr. yocabs.,
vol. i. p. 53. * Hence,' says Mr.
Wright, ' our modem word swelter* Qt Bucking (1).
8WELTKT, adj, y&ij hot and close; sultry, — 'we sha'n be '&Yin' thunder I spect, if s despert sweltry,*
'But as we see the sunne oft times, through over eweUrie heate, Changing the weather faire, great stormes
and thundercraks doth threat' —
Honours Acad&nie, 1610, i. 18, in Hal.
8WEBD [swur'd'], (1) sb. a sword. — Pulyerbatch.
* In his bond is swerd ut-drawe.'
Havelok the Dane, L 1802.
'Well, fetche me a swerd sayed he . . . Fetche me a swerde and deuyde the chyld betwene them.'— Latdceb,
Sermon iL p. 71.
* Swerde, Gladius,* — Prompt, Parv, A.S. stoeord, swiirdj a sword.
(2) sh. an upright bar hayine holes for a pin, affixed to the ' cross- tree ' of a cart, by means of wnich the
cart is set to any pitch when tilted.
— Cleb Hills.
(3) sh, turf; greensward, — * flay off the swerd* — Pulvbbbatoh.
* Stoarde of ^e er^e.' — Prompt, Parv,
A.Sw sweard, the surface of grass.
(4) sh. the rind of bacon. — ^Pulybbbatoh. * They bin yery good to me, Ma'am,' said Betty Biggory [1856], *
they sayen all the swerds o' bacon fur
me.' 'What can you do with them, Betty P' 'Well, Ma'am, I put 'em to soak, an' wesh 'em, an'
'ack 'em up, an' pt^t 'em to stew 55th
tuthree yarbs, awilde I g65 to Church, an' a mignty nice Sunday's dinner they maken me.'
* Swarde or sworde of flesche. CoHanaJ — Prompt Parv. A.S. sweard, the skin of bacon. See Sword.
SWIFTS [swif 'tsj, 6b,y ohs, a machine for holding skeins of yam for the purpose of wmding them. Qy.com. The
form of the nen[/%« was that of an
upright gallowsHBhaped frame, standing about fiye feet from the ground, and haying two reels, one at the
top and the other at the bottom :
these reels-— for the sake of lightness — ^were made of spokes inserted into circular ends, they rotated
upon long iron spindles, which could
be withdrawn to admit of them being taken out of the frame for the yam to be put on them. At the
base of the machine was a box for
holding tne balls when wound. Swifts superseded
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trans* lated form, * yare,' quick,
beconung iun/t, Ct YarewindB.
8WIO9 sb. spiced ale and toast Com. This popular Shropshire sapper-dish is prepared on this wise —
^though perhaps with yaria- tions — a
slice of * red hot' toast is put into the «ti;^-bowl, ginger and nutmeg are grated oyer it, sugar is added,
and the bowl is fiiLled up with cold
ale. The toast — senred on plates — ^is eaten with toasted cheese, a diah of which always accompanies
the wngAyowL The bowl is passed round,
and each draught of ale is called a sung.
8WIO-B0WL, sb, the large bowl — like a punch-bowl — in which $ung is seryed. Oom.
8WILKEB [swil'kur*], v. a. to splash about ; to dash oyer, as of any liquid earned in an open yesseL Oom. ' The
wench has sunlkered nearly all the
milk ourn the pall.*
SWILL9 (1) V, a, to wash hastily; to linse. Com. 'Jest ewtU the men's botUes out, they wun all well scauded
isterd'y.'
* Ful wel kan ich dishes nuUen,*
Eavdok the Dane, L 919.
* Then Sir Tristeram tooke powder forth of that box, ft blent it with warme sweet milke ; & there put it ynto that home, & 9wUkd * it about in that ilke.'
King Arthur and the King of Comwaily L 278. Percy Folio M8.y yoL L p. 73, ed. Hales and
Fumiyall.
• *i. a rinsed it, washed it.' — Verhum Salopienee, Note by Bp. Pbboy.— iWd. ' I etuylly I rynce or dense any maner
yeeseU.' — Palsgraye, in Hal A.S.
ivnlian, to wash.
(2) V. a, to wash by throwing an abundance of water oyer and about, as of a floor, — ' get plenty o'
waiter now, an' ewiU the causey
down.
< As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base
SwUVd with the wild and wasteful ocean.'
K. Henry F., m. i 14.
(3) tib, a thorough cleansing effected by a plentiful application of water dashed about Oom. *Theer's so much
knee- work now-a- days, w'en a scrub
65th a besom an' a good swill 5dd do as well, an' be fax more 'olesome.'
(4) v. a, to drink ; to wash down by drinking,—' 'ere, ate this, an' yo' sha*n a summat to swUl it down.* Oom.
' The wretched, bloody, and usurpiQg boar,
SwilU your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough In your embowell'd bosoms.' — K. Richard
IIL, V. u. 9.
(6) $b. sloppy pig-meat, as of scullery garbage. Oom. * Dunua gie the pig so mudi wnU, let 'im a some
good mate to stodge 'im up,
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else we Bha*n miss '&Tm' 'im i' the 'ouse bj Chris'mas.' Tuaser
eays : —
' Bemember good GKll, Take paine with
thy svnlV
Huswiferie, p. 171, ed. E. D. 8.
« Brdda, waah, swile, or draffe for swine.' — Florio, p. 68, in Hal. G£ Weah (2).
SWILIrTVB^ 8b. a tub in which smll is kept. Com.
SWDTOE [swinj], v. a, to singe. Com. 'Mind yo' dunna smnge that shirt-front, l^e irons bin very
sharp.'
* The scorching flame sore swinged all his face.'
Sfenseb, F, Q., Bk. I. c. xi. si xxyi.
SWDTOIHO [swinj'in], adj.^ obsols. rapid; violent, in regard of motion, — ' the men comen alung at a
9w\ngirC rate.' — Pxtlyerbatgh. A. 8.
sunngan; to swing.
SWIHOLE [swing'l], (1) sb,, obe. a wooden, sword-shaped implement used to beat off the exterior coat from the
fibre of hemp or flax after it had
been ' tewtered.' — Pulyerbatgh. Qv. com. Walter de Bibles- worth — xiiL cent. — ^in his instructions
to ' dame Muriel ' upon hemp- dressing
says :—
' Ne ublet pas le pesselin, De
escucher ou estonger yostre lyn.'
The interlinear glosses which are given, show the meaning to be [do not forget] * the swingle^ * to wnngle
tiii flax.' See Wr. vocabs., vol. i.
p. 156.
Bandle Holme has, ' A Swindle Hand, corruptly a Swingow ffond : a thing like a Wooden Fauchion with a
square hole or handle.' — Acadtmy of
Armory , Bk. III. ch. iii p. 106.
Jamieson gives ' Swingle- wand, the instrument with which flax is tunngltd.'
* Swengyl, for flax or hempe. Excudium/ — Prompt Parv,
* A.S. twingla (flagellum), a swingle.' — Stkat. See Tewter, also Hetchel.
(2) V, n. and $b, to swing ; a swing. Com. * Mother, may me an' Sally g^ an* swingle V ^ *W'eerP' *r the
orchut — Ben's piit us a swingle
theer.' < Well, if yo'n mind an' nod peck out on it, yo' may g55.' A.S. stuingany to vibrate, swing.
S3) sb, a handful of gleaned com. — Corve Dalb. 3ailey — ed. 1782— gives *8ongle' witii the
same meaning, as a Hertfordshire word.
Jamieson lias * Single* in the like sense.
' Du. sangkf sanghe, fe^ciculus spicarum.* — ^Eilian, in Wedg. See Bongow.
(4) same as Swingle-trees, below. — Clee Hills; Lttdlow. *Bend and traces, and 2 swingles.' —
Auctioneer's Catalogue (Stod- desden),
1870.
8WIV0LE-TBEES, sb. the three bars of wood, which— united and swinging together — go behind the horse and
connect him with the implement he is
drawing — they correspond with the ' splinter-bars '
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of a carriage. — Shbewbbxtby; Pulysbb atoh ; Bbidonosth; New- port ; Whitchurch. Qy. com.
Fegge has ' Swingle-tree^ orooked pieces of wood, put to the traces of ploughs, &c to keep them open,
r^orth.'
A.S. sivinga/n; to swing, and tree = a bar of wood. Gf. Tawtreea.
SWIVNET [swin'i'l, adj. dizzy, — Pulvbrbatch. * 'Ow bin'ee, Matty P ' ' I'm right middlin', I'd sich a
snnnney feelin' i' my yed this momin',
Td Hke to a feU throm the top o' the stars to the bottom.* Oompai*e A.S. swindan ; to
languish.
SWIPPLE [swip'l], sb. the upper part of a flail — explained by a certain man to oe * the part as puns.' —
Pulverbatch. Qy. com.
Amongst ' The parts of a Flail or Threshal * given by Bandle Holme is, ' The Swiple, that part as
striketh out the Com.' — Academy of
Armory y Bk. III. ch. viii. p. 333.
Compare A.S. «u;ipe, a whip ; John ii 15. See Thrashal.
SWISH-SWASH [swish'swash], adv. shaking from side to side, as of liquid in a state of agitation. —
Pulverbatch. *■ Dunna gie the
mar' too much waiter — ^'er'U god alung 9v>itih'9Wi3aiK like
buttermilk in a chum.'
SWITE [swei't], v. a. to cut, — a term more especially applied to sticks. — Pulverbatch; Wem; Whitchurch. In
a murder case tried in Shrewsbury —
March 13th, 1813 — ^it was given in evidence
against the prisoner, Rowland Preston, that he had been seen '
$unting a stick,' which stick was
found on the scene of the murder, and was
the convicting proof. The Judge who heard the case asked what was meant by * ewiting a stick ? ' and was told
that it was ' cutting or shaving it.*
(R— - — P was executed on the Monday next follow- ing his trial.) Siviie is a corruption of
thwite, to whittle a stick, given by
Palsgrave.
8WIVE [sweiv], v, a., ohsols, to cut grain with a broad hook. — Wellxngton. Cf. Badge (1). See
Swiving-hook, below.
SWIVERSi sb. pL, ohsolii reapers who ^swive* the grain. — Ibid. The modus operandi of the twivera is to
make a hit at the crop, and so keep
cutting in a half circle, gathering the com as it falls under the hook with foot and knee until they have
enough to form a sheaf. They leave a
much shorter stubble than the ' shearers ' who reaped with a sickle. The ewivers, who are for the
most part Welshmen, go^at harvest-time
— in gangs to the farm-houses to be hired for
reaping. Cf. Shearers.
S W 1 V JJI 0-HOOK, 8b,f obsols. a broad reaping-hook having a smooth, keen edge, and in this respect differing
from the * shearer's ' sickle, which
was serrated ; also it bears about the same proportion to that implement that a salmon-rod does to a Kght
fly-rod. See Shearers. Cf
Badgin^-hook.
SWIZE [swei'z], v. a. to lift up and shake for the purpose of clear- ing, — a term applied to ' twins *
[implements]. — ^Clre Httja ' Them
twms doggen.' * Aye, they wanten somebody be'ind *em to iwixe 'em up a bit.' See Twins.
SWOOOLE, same as Strickle, q. v.— Bishop's Castlb.
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8W0BB [soa-ur'd], same as Swerd (4), q. v. — Shbbwsbury ; Newpobt. Qy. oom.
* Or once a weeke perhaps, for novelty,
Beez'd bacon soords shall feast his fsunily.*
Hall's 8at%re», b. iL Sat. 4, L 15.
Mr. Naree has * Sward. Skin . . . often corrupted to 9wcrd as when applied to the skin of bacon.*
STMOH' [sei'munly sb, a sort of red shale, same as Cftlaminoa, q. v. —
OOLLIEBT ; M. T.
8TM0HY OEOTTin), phr. ' faulty ' ground or barren measures. — CoLLiEitY ; M. T. A remarkable * fault'
known as the * Cheat Symon fault '
traverses the coal-field.
SYHVABLB [sinu'bl], sb., var. pr. a syllable. — Shbbwsburt; PuLYEBBATCH. Qy. com. * Yo' oonna let on to
the Missis as I toud yo.' ' No danger
! nod a $ynnahW
TABO& [tab'ur*], (\) v. n, to tap lightly and repeatedly at
intervals, as with the finger-ends ;
to drum. — ^Wobthen. ' Theer's some one
iahorin* at the brew-'us window ; yo'd'n better see who it is —
^be- 'appen if s one o' the chaps
after Sally.'
'. . . . and her maids shall lead her tahering upon their
breasts.' — Nahum ii 7.
* Tahou)ry(fi). Timpanxso,* — Prompt, Paru.
' O.Fr. taborer, tamoourner.' — Bub.
(2) V, n., ohsoU. ? to beat time with fingers and feet in dancing country dances — somewhat after the manner
of the sailor's hornpipe. —
PuLVBBBATCH. * Did'n'cc '&ve a daince at the Club, Sally ? ' * No, nod o' the Green, the fine folks wun
saunterin' alun^, cuppin' one another
like a bar 'uggin' a dog, — I dunna call it daincm', — so two or tiiree on our chaps tooken the room at
Clar's, an' then we coulden tabor away
theer.'
A certain man, who had obtained local celebrity as a dancer in a ' country-footing,' was known as * Jack the
Taborer.^
* I can noither tabre ne trompe,' is said by a strolling minstreL
Piers PI, Text B., pass. xiii. L 230.
(3) 17. a. to beat ; to thrash,—* 'E'll tabor 'is jacket f^ 'im right well, if 'e ketches 'im.'— Obaven Abms.
TACK [tak*], (1) sb. a smack ; a peculiar flavour — an unpleasant taste is usually understood by the term.
Com. ' The beer 'as a bit of a tack on
it yet — I wish yo'd'n never bought that barrel, I've 'ad more trouble d6th it than itrs wuth; the
cowper's fired it an' every- thin' to
mak' it sweet.'
* He told me that three-score pound of cherries was but a kinds of washing meate, and that there was no tacJee
in them, for hee had tride it at one
time.' — Taylor's Workes, 1630, i. 145, in Hal.
(2) «5. stuff of inferior quality.— Shbewsbuby ; Pulyebbatgh.
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Qy . oom. ' 'Ow dun yore tatoee turn out tliis time, Jolin P ' * Mighty middlin', theer inna many, an' whad theer
is bin poor tocX;.'
(3) «5. pasturage hired for temporary use ; ' ley.' Qy. com. < Yo'n got a power o' stock fur yore farm,
Maister.' * Aye, I mus* get some out
on tack,*
Jamieson has ' Tack, possession for a time.'
(4) V. a. to take animals for pasturage, on hire. — Olun. Qy. com. * Gran'mother, Mary Cadwallader 'as sent
half-arcrown for tadein* the donkey,
an' wants to know if you'll tack 'im a week or nine days longer.' See Tak.
TACKS, sb. pi, the tools or implements of trade of rat-catchers and other folk of similar mStier, — WELLINGTON.
* My tacka bin at New- port, or I'd
soon ketch them rots.' W. taclauj
implements.
TACK-WOEKf eh. work done by contract, and paid for as per rood or acre, &c. Qy. com. * I spect Tummas
'as a pretty good plack theer,
hanna-d-eP' *Well, 'e's on'y nine shilhn' a wik, regular wages, but the Maister 'e lets 'im '&Te
a bit o' tack-work sometimes.' Of. *
Tack, a lease,' in Jamiesoit.
TADDLE [tadi], v. a. and v. n. to pay minute attention to ; to be very tender with ; to feed carefully, as of
a sick person or delicate young
annual. — ^Wkllington; Whitohuboh. 'After the Doctor 'ad left 'er, I taddUd wi' 'er, an' gi'ed 'or
some crame an' waiter.* Of. Tiddle.
TAE [tai'], V. a. to take. — Pulvbbbatch, Snailheaeh '(Mines) ; CoLLiEBT ; Newpobt. ' Tell Sal to toe some
bread an' cheese to the owd mon.'
* Till him he ^eid, his knyff to tak him fra,
Fast by the collar waUace couth him to.'
Henby the Mikstbel (A.D. 1461, area), WaUace^
Bk. L SpectTn. Eng, Lit,, vi. 1. 222.
See A (6) in Grammar Outlines {vowtU, &c.). Gf. Tak, also Tek. See below.
TAEE, TA'EV [tai*n], paH, past, taken,—' They'n taen that cowt out o' the leasow, I see.' Qy. oom.
' So fareth loue, when he hath tane a Bourse.'
Sm Thomas Wla.t (a.d. 1540, circa), Songes and Sonettes, Specim, Eng, Lit., zx. h, L 6.
* Mair taen I'm wi' ypu.'
BoBEBT BuBNS, Foems, p. 34, 1. 12.
' When we have ta*en the grace-drink at the well, I^ whistle syne, and sing t'ye like myselL'
Allan Bahsay^ The Gentle Shepherd, L i. p. 12.
Mr. Oliphant, speaking of the Northumbrian Facdter, aj). 1250, drca (Surtees Society), says, 'In Vol. I.
p. 243 we see, '* when time tane haf I
; " the first instance of taken being cut down to tane — a sure mark of the North.' — Sources of
Standard English, p. 153.
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TAG [tag*], sb, the twisted and pointed end of a lock of wool, as it is shorn from the fleece. — ^Pulyerbatch.
Qy. com. ' Dunna g6d so ayenless about
that 551, snip the end off the tag^ an' toze it well as
' the grace can get among it.' The * grace ' thus alluded to was the goose-oil which was commonly employed to
soften the wool, and so fit it for the
future processes of carding, &c.
* Sw. tagg, a point.' — ^Wedg. See Toze (1).
TAIL-ENDS, TAILDirOS, ab, pi the light, lean grains which fall out of the tail-end of the
winnowing-machine, and are made service-
able in the poultry-yard. Com. ' Jim, bring the blind-sieve full o' tail-ends fur the fowls.'
Grose gives * Tail-ends, The refuse of wheat or other com not saleable in the market, but kept by farmers
for their own consump- tion. Glouc'
See Tail-corn in Hal. C£ Oases.
TAHOE'S-TABD, sb. the three stars in the belt of Orion. — ^Pulver- batch; Wobthen; Wem; Etj.esmetik.
TAILS, sb. pi. the plough-handles indifferently, without distinction of right or left.— Cbatbn Abms.
Bandle Holme has ' Plow iaih or Stilts.' — Academy of Armory y Bk. m. ch. viii. p. 333.
See By-tail and Master-taiL
TAK [tak-], V. a. to take,—' Tell John to tak the bottle to the fild.' Com.
' Yet of the wyse man tak this sentence.'
Ohaucea, B. 117 (Six-text ed.), Skeat
' Pat But first we'll tak a turn up to the height, And see gif all our flocks be feeding
right.'
Allak Bahsay, The OenUe Shepherd, I. ii. p. 12.
* Icel. taka; Goth, tekan; to take.'— Strat.
Of. Tek, also Tae.
TAE-AWAY, sb. appetite. Qy. com. ' That chap's a rar^ takratoay, 'e ete two cantle o' suppin' fur 'is
supper, an' a great lownder o' bread
an* cheese.'
TAKE [tai'k and tak*], in combination with adverbs and prepositions, as foUows. Com.
(a) To take after , to resemble in disposition. ' The child's very like 'is poor Eaither in faichur^ an' I
'ope 'e'll take after 'im, an' be as
good a man, but I'm afeard 'is Mother spiles 'im.' Of. Favour,
also Feature.
(5^ 1. To take off^ to mimic. ' Our Jack 551 take 'im off to f^ nicety, yo'd n think 'twuas 'im 'isself— 'e's a
perty good mimic^ 'e'U take off
anybody.'
2. To depart hurriedly : usually employed^ in the past tense. ' The lads wun makin' a pretty riot o Sunday
night, but as soon as the Bobby
shewned up yo' shoulden a sin 'ow they tooken off J
(c) To take on. See On (3) (/).
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((Q 1. To take to, to enter upon; to take poesesaiaxi of. ' *E11 iak* to ihe farm at Lady Day.'
2. To adopt: said of persons or animals. (1) 'The childem bin better off than Ven they 'ad'n thar Faither
; the Undee oomen foirat like men ;
Uncle Ben said 'e'd take to one, an' then the three others tooken to the rest — one apiece, so they
bin all shooted.' (2) * We bin likely
to *ave a lot o' cades this time — three yeows ban died throm thar lambs, an' two more as 'ad'n
double-couples JS5dna tak^ to the
secunt lamb.'
3. To become accustomed to, or attached to. ' It inna every diild yo* can take to, but I wuz despert fond o*
that little girld, an* 'er woe mighty
fond o' me.'
To he taken to, is to be surprised or astonished. (1) * I tau taken to, I can tell yo\ w'en the Missis said so.'
(2) * I never wuz so took to in all my
life w'en I 'eard they wun gwun dane away.'
(e) 1. To take up, to answer shortly and hastilv. * Well, yo* neei'na tak^ one up so sharp, jest gi'e a body time
to spake.'
2. To put ri^ht; to correct. 'Yo* touden the paas'n wrang, Molly — but I didna like to tak yo' up
afore 'im— it wuz Sund'y ae'n- night
as yo' wun at Church, nod las* Sund'y as ever wuz.'
TAKDfO [tai'kin and tak'in], sb, a sudden seizure of pain at the bone, — chiefly in the joints, — often
ending in diseased bone or stiff
joints.— PuLVEKBATCH ; Wem. Qy. com. * Poor Dick 'as bin lame a lungful wilde ; did *e 'urt 'is leg P ' *
No, it come on itself — ^a takin' at
the bwun.'
* Bless thee f^m whirlwinds, star-blasting, and taking!* —K, Lear, m. iv. 61.
* . . . strike her young bones, ^ You
taking airs, with lameness ! ' — Ihid, UL iv. 166.
TALE [tai'l], v. a., obsoh. to count! — Pulverbatoh. ' I tale them ship to forty — ^'ow many bin a ?' said a
toll-man to a drover. A.S. talian, to
reckon, compute.
TALKIirG TO MOMMETS, phr., ohs. self-communing in low-toned speech.— PiTLVERBATCH. ' Whad's the
Church-bell gweln fur ? ' * A
Vestry-meetin' ; theer's a batch o' parish prentices to be lotted.' *
I thought theer wuz summat gweYn on; I
sid owd Mister Ambler stan'in' i' the
lane talkin' to He mommets.^
Mr. James Ambler was a man whose opinion was much respected, but he seldom gave it without taking
counsel with himself, and was noted
for ^talkin* to ^i$ mommets,^ He died May 1808.
The term mommet, thus employed, wotdd seem to have retained some lingering sense of the O.E. maumet, an
idol to which prayer would be
addressed : —
* Do a-wei t>i Maumetei * f^ei han trayed ^e ofbe.'
Joseph of Arimaihie, L 102. See Mommet
(1).
TALLAHT, TAZXAT [tal-untl, Shrewsbury; Polvbrbatoh; Much Wenlock; Wellington; wem; Oswestry. Qy.
com. [tal-u't],
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Pulybbbatoh; Craven Arms ; Ludlow, $h. a hay-loft. * That bit o' clover can g56 o' the tallat, it inna
wuth m&kin' a stack on.'
*You remember how you used to love hunting for eggs in the morning, and hiding up m. the tallcU with
Lizzie, for me to seek you among tiie
hay, when nie sun was down.' — ^B. D. Blackmore, Loma Dooney A Romance of Exmoor, p. 326, ed.
1878. Grose gives * Toilet {%. e,
top-loffc), a hay-loft. Exm.' ' W.
tnl, s. m. that is over, that tops, that is fronting or upon.' — OwBN Puohb's Welsh Dictionary.
TALL-BOY, ab, a narrow ale-glass standing high upon a stem or foot. — Pulverbatch. Qv. coul * Missis, the
Maister wants a jug o* ale at the
'orse-block, an two tumbler-glasses — ^'e said nod to sen' them tall'hoya^ kigglin'.' * Who's 55th 'im ? '
'I donna know, some gen- tleman ; 'e
says 'e 55nna light.*
* She then ordered some cups, goblets, and Udl-hoys of gold, silver, and crystal to be brought, and inyited us
to drink.' — Ozell (first half 18th
cent), Rabelais, Y. zliL, in Nares.
Mr. Nares savs that Tall-boy is ' a cant term for cups or glasses, made longer or higher than common.'
TAV, r. n. to harp; to worry. — Pulverbatch. *I dunna know whad's the matter ooth our Missis ; 'er's
bin tan, tan, tanin* ever sence 'er
got up this momin'.'
TAVCEL rtan'si'l], v, a. to beat ; to thrash. — Shrewsbury ; Pulver- batch ; Wellington. Qy. com. ' 5on yo' lave
them apples alone, an' come out o'
that orchut ? else PU tancd yore 'ide for yo .'
Mr. John Bandall relates a story of Tom Moody, the feimous
* Willey Whipper-in,' that, * having a spite at a pike-keeper, who offended him by not opening the gate quick
enough, '* Tom tantxUed his
hide," and resolved the next time he went that way not to trouble him. Driving up to the gate, he gave a
spring, and touching his horse on the
flanks, went straight over, without starting a stitdi or breaking a buckle [1773-96].* — Old Sports
and Sportsmen, or The Willey Country,
1873.
Compare * Fr. tancer, O.Fr. tencerj to rebuke, upbraid,' in Pice*
TAVO [tang*], (1) v. a. to make a sharp, ringing noise, as with
* sounding brass,' to call the bees together when swarming. — Church Stretton. * Mak' 'aste an' fatch the
warmin'-pon an' the kay o' the 'ouae
to tang the bees, or the^n be off, thev flyen mighty 'igh.
' Be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants ; let thy tongue tang arguments of state.' — Twelfth Night,
IL v. 163. Cf. Ting-tang (1).
(2) »b. the prong of a potato-fork. — ^Newport; Wem; Whit- church; Ellesmere.
Bandle Holme has ' The Tangs or Forks.' — Academy of Armory, Bk. in. ch. viii. p. 337.
IceL tangr; the iron tongue of a knife which goes into the handle. 01 Tine (1).
TAHTEVM8, sb. pL bursts of passionate temper. Com. Cf. Oeoltitudes.
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TAP, V. a. to re-sole boots or shoes. Com. ' Fve made yore boots aumust as good as new ; I've tapped an'
*eeled 'em, bnt Fd much ado, fur the
in-sole wuz gwun.'
TABD [taaT'd], part, pasty torn, — * Tve tard my thiock.' — Shbbws- BUBY ; PuLVBHBATOH ; Wem. Qy. com.
TAB-FITCH, 8b, Ervum hirsdtum, hairy Tare.— Weh. See Fitohes.
TA8KEBS, sb. pi. harvest-men who work by the acre, not by the day.— -Wsllikoton; Ellimmere.
' . . . . forth he goes, Like to a
hanrest-man thaf s task'd to mow Or
all or lose his hire.' — Coriolanua, I. iii. 39.
<In 1387,— a reaper had 4d, a day. Is, lid was paid for cutting and tying up 3 acres of wheat, per taskanK
' In 1388, — 30 acres of oats tied up W the job {per UMkam)^ 1#. 8d.' ---NoteB to Fieri PL, p. 178, ed. Skeat, E.
E. T. S.
' Hie triturcUoTj A^ a tasker,* occurs in a Nominale, zr. cent., in Wr. Tocabs., voL i. p. 218. Mr. Wright adds
a note, — * Taaker, ». e. a thrasher.
The word is now used m some dialects for a reaper ; perhaps so named as working by task or
piece.'
See Fly-gang, also Tack-work.
TASKEBS'-LEASEBS, sb. pi the wives and children of the taskers, who are allowed to go into the field and
glean before ' all comers ' are
admitted. — Ellesmere. Perhaps some such privilege is referred to by Langland when he says —
* Ac who so helpeth me to erie ' or sowen here ar I wende, SJuU haue leue, hi owre lorde * to less
here in heruest. And make hem mery
I'ere-mydde ' maugre who-so bigruocheth it.'
Piers PL, Text B. pass. vi. IL 67-69.
Cf. Parlour-leasers.
TATHEB [tadh'ur'], (1) sb. frogs' spawn. — Pulverbatch ; Wbllino- TON. Cf. Junder (2).
(2) V. a. to tie and twist and knot, as of growing com by the wind. — PuLVEEBATCH. * The winde's wassled an'
tathered the com till itll be
impossible to rape it, an' I canna bar mowin' Veat — it looks so slovenly.' Of. Lodged.
(3) V. a. and v. n. to entangle ; to become involved — ^used chiefly in the preterite or participial form, as of
persons or things. — Ibid. ' I tell
yo* whad, Jmi, if yo' getten blended up an' tathered among that lot, I've done 65th yo'.'
(4) sb. a complicated state of things ; a tangle, as of thread, Ac — Ptjlverbatch ; Glee Hills. * Yo'n got this
skein o' thrid i' sick a tatheTf it'll
a to be cut.'
SJ) sb,y var. pr. a tether. — Ptjlverbatch. It is said (metaphori- y) of a spendthrift that * 'e'U soon
gd<5 the lenth on 'is tather ; ' or
of restriction imposed upon a person, mat ' it'll tighten 'is taiherJ'
TATOES. See Potatoes.
TAW [tau*], sb. a large, choice marble. Com.
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TAWHT OWL, sb. the common Brown Owl. — Shbewsbuby. See Billy-Hooter.
TAWTBEES, TOITEEES [taa*tr'iz'], Pulvbrbatoh, (kmdover; Cbavbn Arms. [totT'i'z], Worthkn, Cherhwry.
[toi-tr*i*z], Olun, 9h, same as
Swingrle-treeB, q. y.
* Two sets tatvtrees,* — Atidioneer^B Catalogue (Longyille), 1877.
TAXT-WAXT [tak'si' waksi'], sb. a strong tendon in the neck of quadf apeds ; cartilage, such as is seen in
certain cuts of beef — PuL- VBBBATCH ;
WoRTHBN. Qj, com. ' Gio the baby that piece o* taxy waxvy it's better than india-rubber.*
* PaxwaXy synewe,* occurs in Prompt. Farv, See Mr. Way's note thereon.
TBABT [ti'ur'*t], (1) adj. sharp ; biting : as of a frosty day, — * It's
a mighty tedrt day/ — Glee KiLLa Of.
Deum (2).
(2) adj. severe: painful. — ^PiTLyERBATCH ; Glee Hills; Much Wbnlook. ' My and's despert bad ; theer
inna much to be sid, but it's that
tedri sore I canna bar a fither to touch it.*
TED, V. a. to turn and spread abroad new-mown hay-grass. Com. 'I shouldna Ud the *ay awile the weathers
so casertly, it'll keep better i* tiie
swath.'
' Gk) sirs and away, to ted and make
hay.' TussER, Juliee Abstract, p. 121,
ed. E. D. S.
Bailey— ed. 1782— gires • To Ted or Tede {Grass) ' as a * South and East Country Word.'
* I teede hey, I tourne it afore it is made into cockes, je fene.' — Palsgrave in Hal. Mr. Halliwell remarks of
ted that it is ' still in use.*
TEEM [teem], ^1) v. a. and v. n. to pour out. Com. * Theer's summat got r tne spout o' the tay-pot, it
dunna teem welL '
' ft when Willie had gotten a kisse,
I- wis shee might haue teemed * him 3.'
Will Stewart and lohn, 1. 144. Percy Folio MS., voL iii p. 221, ed. Hales and FumivalL
* * given him 3 : teem, to pour out . . .' — Note by Mr. Furnivall.
(2) V. a. to empty. — Shrewsbury. Qy. com. * I axed the Maister, oould 'e change me a sovereign, an* 'e
teemed *is pus, but *e *adna got it'
* With swerdis swyf tly thay smyte,
Thay teme sadils fiille tyte.'
MS. Lincoln, A. I 17, f 134, in TTat.
Jamieson has ' To Teme, v. a. to empty, teem, S. B.'
* Temyn\ or maken empty. Vacuo, evacuo.' — Prompt. Parv.
* Sw. tomma ; Dan. tomme ; to exhaust, empty.' — ^Wedo.
TEEHY [teeni'], adj. very small, — tiny. Qy. com. See below.
TEEVT-TIHT, adj. an intensitive of tiny, — very very small. — New- port. Qy. com.
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' Tiny (a word used in Warcester'ahire and fhereabonts, as a little tiny) comes from the ItaL Tini, which is a
diminatiye termination.* — Blount* s
QlosBographia^ p. 648.
TEEHT-WEENT, an intensitive of teeny (above). Qy. com. ' It's a pretty babby, but a teeny-weeny thing;
yo' met*n put it in a quart
*The rhyming [sic] form teeny-weeny may indicate a connection with Du. weynigh; G. wenig; little, smaU,
few.* — Wetg.
TEEBY [tee-hVi*], (I) adj. soft ; smooth ; mellow^ — in operation. — PuLVEEBATOH. (1) *K yo' ptitten a spot o'
'ot waiter i' the chum, it'll mak' the
butter work teery,^ (2) < The ground works nice an* teery after the fros*.'
Compare * Teere^ of flowre. Arnoluffn, " PoUis, vel pollen, eat idem in tritico quod flos in siligine, the
tere of floure.*' — ^Whitinton,
Gramm., 1621.' — Prompt. Parv. and Notes.
(2) adj. tall ; tapering : said of persons and plants, — ' a teery
girl,' &C.— Ellesmere, WeUhampton.
Gf. Spiry.
TEO, sb. a sheep in its second year that has never been shorn. — Qlun ; Glee Mills. Qy. com.
' A te^ or sheepe with a little head and wooll under its belly.' — Florio, in Hal.
Bay gives ' A Tagge, a Sheep of the first Tear, Sussex.'
TEO*S-W00L, 8b. the wool shorn off a teg.— Ibid. The wool known as te^s^wocl is disting^shed by a
little curl at the end, which that of
an after-shearing never has.
TELLIF [telif], sb.^ obaoh. a thick, tangled crop : said of weeds. — PuLVEBBATOH. * I shall *ftve a pretty job
to 'aw them tatoes — ^theer's a fine
UUif o' weeds.* Gf. Morf.
TEMPESSOME, adj. hot-tempered; passionate. — Wem ; Ellbs-
MEBE.
TEMPEST, sb.^ pec. a storm, more especially a thunderstorm, but without the accompaniment of high wind. —
Glttn. Gf. Storm.
TEMPTU0TJ8 [tem'tyus and tem-chus], adj. tempting ; inviting. — PuLVEBBATOH. * lliank yo*, Missis, rU tak*
a bit, it looks so (em'- tuouA — as
the owd sayin' is, ** the proof o* the puddin* *s i* the atin*." *
TENSOBS, sb. pl.^ obs. persons who, not being burgesses, carried on business in the town as tradesmen, upon
payment of certein fine& —
Shbewsbuby.
* 1449-50. This yeare the burgesses and tenssars in Shrewsbury dyd varye/ — Early Chronicles of Shrewsbury
{Taylor MS.), in Trans- actions' of
Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
The Tensors' fines were imposed by the Gourt Leet, which required that they should < be levied before the
Feast of St. Gatherine fNov. 26th].'
' In the Gorporation Accounts — 1519 — ^it is ordered that ** Tmuors selling ale should pay yjd.
quarterly.*" — Phillip8*8 History of
Bhrewshuryy pp. 161, 168.
See below, also see Bibsters.
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TEHSOBSHIP, sk, ohs. tiie fine paid by Ten8(n-B (see above).—
8HBEWBBUBY.
' John Bromhall, baker. — ^It was objected to his vote that he was no Burgess, in support of which it was
proved that he pd Tentership several
years, and that his ffather had paid toll. lids Tenserdhip is a ffine or acknowledgment commonly paid by
persons following trade in the town
that are no Burgesses. . . .' — The Poll for the Borough of Shrewsbury J June 29th and 30th, 1747, in
TranMctions of the SArop- shire
Archaeological and Natural Hietory Society,
* This Richard Muckleston . . . commenced a suite i^ainst the Towne of Shrewsbury for exacting an
imposition upon him which they call
tensorship, and did endeavour to make voyd their Charter, but they gave him his Burgesship to bee
quiet.' — Gk>uOH's History of
Myddle, p. 128.
TENT, (i) V, a. to take charge of; to attend to, as of sheep, cattle, &c. * Jack, the Maister wants yo' to
tent them cows as 'e's jest turned i'
the leasow.'
' it was a sore office, O Lord, for him
that was a lord borne of a great degree !
as he was tenting his sheepe alone,
neither in>ort nor play cold hee.'
Lord of Leame^ 1. 139. Percu Folio MS,, voL L
p. 187, ed. Hales and FumivaU.
(2) V. a, to hinder ; to watch ; to ' look sharp after/— having pun- ishment in view. — Wkm ; Ellesmere. ' 111
tent 'im if *e osses to do that agen.'
* HI tent thee, quoth Wood, If I can^t
rule my daughter. Til rule my good.*
Cheshire Proverbial Saying.
(3) V. a, to scare. — ^Newport; Wem: Ellesmere. 'Where's WiU Starkey ? ' * Plaze, Ma'am, Vs tentin^
crows off the com.'
TE£BIF7, V. a., pec, to pain ; to irritate. — Shrewsbury ; Pulver- batch; Glee Hills; Wem; Ellesmere. (1)
'This cut o' my finger terrifies me
mightily, I canna get on 5oth my work.' (2)
* These gnats do so terrify the child— jest look at 'is for'yed, 'ow
if s bitten.'
TEWTER [teu*tur^ and choo'tur*], (1) v. a., obs, to beat and break the hemp-stalk after it had been subjected
to the action of fire as described sub
voce Killoddy, q. v. — Pulverbatch ; Worthed.
Tewtering was the second process of hemp-dressing. (It may be
noted here that hemp and flax were
treated alike.)
The verb tewter seems to be a variation 'of ' Tewtaw, to beat, to break as flax,' given by Ash as a '
reduplication of Tew (from the Sax.
taufian), to work, to beat so as to soften.'
Bailey— ed. 1782— has * To Tew Hemp, to beat or dress it' * A.S. tavHan; O.Du. touwen; to taw,
aubigere.^ — Stbat.
(2) sb,j obs, the implement with which the hemp-stalk was beaten, ftc. — Ibid, The tevjter consisted of two
parts, upper and lower, respectively ;
the latter being a long, narrow, oaken frame, standins' upon four legs, about two feet three indies
in height, and famished
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"with a range of four strong bars, extending its wKole length.
These bars were of 'cloyen quarter
oak' — ^the triangular segment of a
squared block — and were fixed with the keen edge topmost. The upper part had three bars of like kind, so
set as to fit the interspaces of those
beneath. It was joined to the lower part at one end by a pair of * gudgeons/ which acted as hinges
in such a manner, that it could be
plied up and down by means of a handle, which the operator worked with his right hand, while
he held the hemp with his left, to be
tetutered between the several parts of the implement.
Mr. Halliwell gives ' Tetoter, An instrument for breakmg flax, as a brake for hemp. Cheshire.*
Bandle Holme, however, draws no distinction between hemp and flax as regards the implements and
processes required for dressing them ;
he mentions a * brake * — ^but not a tewter — amongst the former, and in the ' Terms of Art used by Hemp and
Flax Dressers,' he adds, * Braking^ is
the crushing, and bruising the Stalks, between peeces of Wood with teeth like a Saw, made in them.*
— Academy of Armory, Bk. in. ch. iii.
p. 106.
See Swingle (1).
T-HAN DLE, sb. a handle, as of a spade or potato-fork, having a short cross-bar at the top. Qy. coul
A D'handle is one tluit is terminated by a loop resembling the letter D reversed, thus o.
THAKK TOTJ FOE ME, phr, a form of thanks for hospitality received. — Pulverbatoh ; Oswestby. * Now,
Nelly, mak* the ladv a curchey, an'
say thaixk you for me, an' I'm greatly obleeged fur sich a nice tay.'
This singular expression seems to be an elliptical one, signifying, I thank you /or — what you have given to —
me,— /or being tiie streas word ; *
thank you /or me.'
The Welsh have a similar idiom differenced by the emphasis, which is laid upon the final pronoun, thus : — *
Supposing two persons-^
panion to convey tiianks in like manner for himself.' — Byegonee, 1878, p. 11.
^^gg^ gives * Thank you for them, an answer to an enquiry after absent friends. North. They are quite well,
I thank you for them.'
THAB [dhaa-r'],7W0». their, — * It's thar fence, 'an' they man mend it.' — Shrewsbtjey; Ptjlvbrbatch.
' Drink sal alle bestes of felde wide,
Wilde asses in )>ar thrist sal abide.'
Metrical English Psalter, dii. (▲.D. 1300, ante).
[Ps. civ. 11.] Spedm. Early Eng., ii. L 12.
A.S. \xxra, of them, gen. pi. of se, seo, \>cBt.
See Qrammar OuUmes (adjective pronouns), p. xlviii.
THATCH-SPABBOW, sb. common House-sparrow. — Clun, Twitchin. See Aisin-sparrow.
THATN , THISir, advs. that way, this way, as of the maimer of
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doing a thing. — Clun, Herefd, Border; LuBLOw; MxroH Wenlook; Newport, Shiffnal.
Pegge giyes * Thia'n and Thafny in this manner and in that manner. North.' See Athatn, Athisn, &o.
THAVE [thai'v], ab. a ewe sheep of the first year. — Pulverbatgh.
* Item, taken away uppon Draytun groimde at on time . . • OG. shepe callyd hoggys.
* Item, at a nother tyme, uppon the same ground, iiij*^ hoggys and xl. theyvea.^ — PasUm Letters^ A J). 1465,
voL iii. p. 457.
Bay has * A T heave ; An Ewe of the first Year, Eaaex.' I^oggo gives * Theave, in the North, an ewe
(or sheep) of three years.' He adds, '
Bailey says of one year.* See Hog (1),
also Hogget.
THETCH [thech*], v. a. and ab. to thatch ; thatch. — Shrewsbury ;
PT7I«yERBATGH. Qy. COHL
* And some he tamte to tilie * to dyche & to iJiecehe.^
Fieri PI, Text B. pass. xix. L 232.
' Blocks, rootes, pole and bough, set Tpright to the thetch : the neerer more handsome in winter to
fetch.'
Tusser, Fixie Hundred Pointea of Oood Huebandrie
[August].
<A.Sax. vb. \>eccan; O.H.Germ. decchen; to thetch (thatch).* — Strat. A.S. sb. \>cec, thatoh.
THETCHEB, ab. a th&tcheT.—Ibid.
'A. Sax. \tecere; O.H.Germ. dechari; a thatcher.' — Strat.
THETCHnrO-PEG, ab. a peg used in thatching.— /Wcf. * Did Jro' see 'ow the cow 'as lied the tJietch off
the pig-sty ? Tak' some rushes an'
tuthree thetchivC ^pega an' put it right'
THE - WAIN -AVD- HORSES, ab. Uraa ifq/or.— Oswestrt. See Gharles's-Wainy also Jaok-an'-'iB-chem,
fto.
THIEF [theef '], «&., pec. an imperfection in the wick which causes
a candle to waste and to gutter. Com.
*Look at the thief i' the candle, 'ow
it's wasting it.
Bandle Hobne gives ' Thief ^^ in the same sense, amongst ' Terms used by Tallow-OSandlers,' in the Academy
of Armory , Bk« III. ch. iii. p. 102.
THILLEK [thil'ur'], ab, a shaft-horse. — Craven Arms ; Clee Hills ; Ludlow.
* Suit of thillev'a gears.' — Audior^eer's Catalogue (Stoddesden), 1870.
' Hole bridle and saddle, whit lether and nail, with ooUers and hameis, for thiller and
all.'
TxrssER, Husbandlie furniturey p. 36, ed. E. D. S.
* Thiller, or ThU-Jiorae, is that horse which is put under the ThUla of the Cart to bear them up.' — BLOUin*' s
Gloaaographia, p. 646.
Grose gives ' Thill-horae. The shaft-horse. N.'
* Thylle Horae. Veredua.^ — Prompt. Parv.
* A.S. ]>ily a stake . • • the pole or shafts of a carriage.' — ^Wedo.
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THDraXE [thingkl], ah. a thing-ful, as of cup, glass, &c.— Pulver-
batgh; Cbayen Abms. "Aye a drop more drink, Dick.' 'No. thank yo', I'm gweYn.' 'Whad 'urry r Jest
'&ve another tMrikle. C£ Cantle,
also Tottle. See Qrammar Outlines {nouns compounded with All), p. zliii.
THISL [thur*!*], v. a, and v, n. to pierce through; to make an opening, as out of one 'working' into
another. — Coujery, M. T. ' GkifFer,
we'n thirled out o' our Top-end into Smith's Lerel to-day/
* and al comes of a l^roly (yomt * (^at ]>irl^ min hert.'
WiUiam of Paleme, 1. 612.
Grose gives ' Thirl, To hore a hole, to drilL Lincolnsh.'
* Thyrlyh\ or peercjrn'. Pmetro, terebro, p^foro.^ — Prompt, Parv. A.S. \>yrlian; to make a hole ; to
thrill, drill, pierce, hore.
THieS. See Thatn.
THOHE, adj. damp ; moist : said of com, and of heavy, clammy hread.— CoBVB Dale. Ash has ' Thone (a local word), damp,
moist.*
THEAPE. See Threap below.
THRA8HAL, TH&ASHAT [thr'ash-ul], Pulverbatch. Qy. com. [thr'ash'ut], Weh; Ellesmere, sh., ohaols.
a flail. It consists of two parts, the
hand-staff and the woipple, which are united by a band of strong leather. Bandle Holme calls this implement a '
ThreshalV ' Tritorium, J>erscel,'
occurs in Archbp. ^Ifru^s Vocabulary, x. cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. i p. 16. Mr. Wriffht
gives the explanation, * A flail,
still called in Lancashire a threshdV See Caplin, also Swipple.
THRAVE [thr'ai'v], sh, a collective number of sheaves of com in the straw, or of straw which has been
threshed : a term always used in the
singular number, — * The Maister's sen' to know if yo' can lend *im five or six thrave o' straw.' Com.
* Thrave of Corn, was two Shocks, of six, or rather twelve sheaves apiece. Stat, 2 H. 6. c. 2. . . . In most
Counties of England twenty four
sheaves do now go to a Thrave. Twelve sheaves make a Stook, and two Stooks a Thrave.^ — Blount's
Olosaographia, p. 647.
Grose gives ' Thrave. A shock of com containing 24 sheaves.' See Weights and Measures, &c., p. xciiL
C£ Stock.
THREAP [thr'ai'p and thr'eep*], v. n. to contradict ; to dispute ; to maintain an opposite opinion with obstinate
pertinacity. Com. * I knowed as that
plough-bottle wunna brought in, but tnat imperent bwoy thraped me out as it wuz.'
* " Bell my wiffe I why dost thou fflyte P
now is now, & then was then ; wee
will Hue now obedyent liffe, thou the
woman, & I the man. itts not ffor
a man with a woman to threape
vnlesse he fflrst giue ouer the play;
wee will Uue noue, as wee began." '
Bell my Wiffe, I 61. Percy Folio MS., voL ii
p. 324, ed. Hales and FumivaU.
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* Some herdB, weel leam'd upo' the beuk,
Wad threap auld folk the thing misteuk.'
EoBEBT BuENS, Poeww, p. 80, 1. 26.
* I thrq>e a mater upon one, I beare one in hande that he hath doone or said a thing amysse.' — Palsgrave,
verb. f. 389, in Hal.
* A. Sax. ]>reapian ; to threap, arguere.* — Strat.
THBEE-COKNEBED, adj., pec. irritable ; ill-conditioned : said of the temper. — Wobthen'. * *Er's in a mighty
three-cornered *umoiir to-day.' Cf.
Three-square (2), below.
THBEE-FACES-TTHBEB-A-HOOD, sb. VioJa tricolor, Pansy violet, or Heart' s-ease. — Pulvbkbatch. Gerarde calls it ' Three faces in a hood! —
Herball, Bk. ii. p. 855. C£
Two-faoes-under-the-Sun.
TflBEE-LEOS, same as Have, q. v. — Worthbn.
THBEE-SaUAEE, (1) adj. triangular.— Ludlow, Herefd. Border. Bandle Holme says of * Harrows ' that * In
former times Husband- men made all
these Instruments three square.* — Academy of ArtMfrff, Bk. in. ch. viii. p. 335. Cf. Four-square.
(2) same as Three-cornered, above. — Pulverbatgh. ' The Maister seems in a three-sguar* temper tiiis
momin\*
THSICECOCK, sb. Tardus viscwoi-us, Missel-thrush.— Nbwport. Cf. Thrushcock. See Stormcock (3).
THBID [thr'id-], (1^ eb. thread. Com. 'Bring me a quarter o' mixt thrid, an' tell em to piit the biggest
part wity-brown, it's the most
useful.'
* There she them found all sittins round about^ The direfull distaffe standing in me
mid. And with unwearied fingers
drawing out The lines of Ufe, from
living knowledge hid. Sad Clotho held
the rocke, the whiles the thrid Bv
grieely Lachesis was spun with paine,
Tnat cruell Atropos eftsoones undid, ^
With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine. Most wretched men, whose dayes depend on
thrids so vaine ! '
Sfenseb, F. Q., Bk. lY. c. ii. st. xlviiL
In explaining the ' Terms of Art used by Spinners,' Bandle Holme says, * Yam is the single thrid of either
Hemp or Flax.' — Academy of Armory,
Bk. IIL ch. iii p. 107.
(2) V. a. to thread, — * 1 canna see to thrid the nild.' — Ibid.
THBIPPLE8 [thr'ip'lz], same as Ripples, q. v. — Church Strieiton ; Cleb Hills; Ludlow; Newport.
* Narrow wheel cart with thripples.* — Auctioneer's Catalogue (Church Stretton), 1877.
* JSpredia,* glossed ' the therrepylliSy occurs amongst the parts of a * wain ' and cart enumerated in a Metrical
Vocabulary, (perhaps) xiv. cent, in
Wr. vocaba, voL i. p. 181.
THBOCK, 8b., var. pr. a frock, — ^ Pfit the child a dane throck on
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THBOOOLE [thr*og*l], v. a. to trammel : said of any article of drees that impedes free movement. — ^Puxyerbatgh.
* I dunna like this 5511en soawl — ^I canna bar anythin' as throggUs me.*
THBOH, prep,y var. pr. from. — Shrewsbury; Pclvbrbatch ; Clqn ; Ellesme&b. Qy. com. See F (2) in
Qrammar Outlines {coiuonanU, &c.).
THBOSH [thr'osh-], r. a. to thresh. Com. * John, I want yo' to throah that turmit sid, an* mind an* clane
it well.'
* Light come, light go, m^ Faither ^t it eL'thro$hin\^ is an ironical proverbial saying Hieard in the
neighbourhood of Pulverbatch), applied
to spendthrirt waste of hardly-earned properly.
* \>ro6hen * is given by Dr. Stratmami as a pi^cipial form occurring in tiie OrmtUum (a.d. 1200, circa) L 1530.
' A. S. perscan ; Qoth. \nriakan ; 0.n. G^^m. dretken ; thresh (thrash)
; tiiturare. * — St&at.
THBOSTLE, THBITSTLE [thr*os*l, thr'usi], ah. Turdus mimcus, the Song-thrush. Com. Both forms obtain, but
ThrwUe is the one more usually heard.
' & eche busch ful of briddes * j^at bh^eliche song, bot^e l^e l^rusch & \>e ]^u$tde * bi
xzxii of bo>e.*
William of Paleme, L 820.
* Sir Thopas fil in loue-longinge Al
whan he herde the thrustd singe.*
Chaucer, fi. 1963 (Six-text ed.), Skeat
< prusche and }^ro8tU and wudewale.*
Owl and Nightingale^ L 1659.
< The throstle with his note so true,
The wren with little quill, — ^
Midiummer Night^s Dream, UL. i. 130.
* Throstle, A thrush ; properly the Mieed-thrueh^ but often used with latitude for any of the genus. Still
current in some counties.' — Nares.
* Thmstylley bryd. . . . Merula.'— Prompt. Parv,
A.S. ]frostle ;—idem. See Thrushel, also Thrushoook.
THBOTTLE f thr'oti], sb., el 1 the throats Com. ' That's summat wuth piittin down a fellow's throttle.*
THBOW [thr'ou-], (1) prep., ohsoU.'^ through, — 'I sid 'im gwdn throw the wicket toerts the foud.* —
^Pulyerbatoh.
' This Posie is so pickt, and choysely sorted throw There is no Flower, Herbe, nor Weede, but
serves some purpose now.'
George Gasgoigne's Poeiee (a.d. 1573), ed. Hazlitt, vol. i. p. 20.
(2) sh. a hole cut through a hedge as a channel to let water run off the land. — Cleb Hills. 'Han yo* drawed
them aidsP' 'Iss, Maister.' ' Then g56
an* cut a throw through the 'ed^.*
Mr. Halliwell has * Throw^ a thoroughfEure ; a pubhc road. Son^A.'
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THBOWED [thr'oa'd], part, past, defeated by an adyerse verdict* Qy. com. 'Price an' Jones han bin 'agglin*
an' wrang^lin' for 'ears about that
r6oad ; at last it wuz brought to a size trial, an' Jones wuz throwed: Ct Cast (4).
THBTJM [thi^um], 8b., oha. linen-weaveis' waste, used for sewing purposes. — ^Pulveebatch. Qy. com. Til djam
tbem things no lunger, fur Fye used
more thrum o'er 'em than a bin wuth, a power.'
' O Fates, come, come, Cut thread and
ihrum,^
Midsummer Nighfs Dream^ V. i. 291.
* Thromm, of a clothe. Filamen.* — Prompt. Farv.
THBITSH [thr'ush*], v. n. to thrust ; to press, as in, or by, a throng of folk. — ^Atcham; Ellesmerb. *They
wunpushin' an' thrushin^ s5o, theer
wuz no gettin' alung fur 'em.' Of. Tnrutch, below.
THKirSHCOCK, eh. the Missel-thrush (of both sexes). — Bridgnorth. Bichard Bamefield — an Edgmond (Salop) man
— employs the form * Thrustle-cocke :
'—
* Or if thou wilt goe shoote at little Birds
With bow & bomt (the Thrustle^cocke & Sparrow) Sach as our Countrey hedges can afford's
; I haue a fine bowe and an yuorie
arrow ;
And if thou misse, yet meate thou ^alt [not] lacke. He hange a bag & bottle at thy backe.'
The Affectionate Shepheard^ A.D. 1594.
In Chaucer we find —
* The thrustelcok made eek his lay.'
8ir Thopa$, B. 1959 (Six-text ed.), Skeat.
See Bub voce Throstle. See also Thricecock.
THSITSHEL [thr'ush-u'l], same as Throstle, q. v. — Bridgnorth.
* Thrustylle, bryd {thru8$hill or thrustyll, P.). Merula.'— Prompt. Parv.
Compare * M.H.Germ. droechel ; — idem^^ in Strat.
THKITSTT, adj. thirsty. — Ludlow, Herefd. Border.
' ... to quench her flaming thrusty occurs in Spenser's Fa/erie Queene,
* A.Sax. Y^retig ; O.H.Germ. duratager^ thirsty.' — Strat. See B (2) in Grammar Outlines {coneonants,
&c.).
THBUTCH [thr'uch-], same as Thnuh, q. v.,— « w'eer bin'ee thrutchin' to P '— Wem.
'Maxfield measure, heap and thrutch, i. e. thrust. Cheshire.* — Bat's Proverbs, p. 59.
'A.Sox, \tryccan; 0.n.Germ. druccJienf thrutch; premerSy trudere.' — Strat.
THTTMBSCALL [thum'sku'l], sb., obs. a piece of paper or card inserted in a book at the bottom of the
page, to prevent thumb- marks. —
Pulverbatch; Worthen. *Now, I've piit yo' a fescue an' a thumbscaUy so mind as theer inna-d-a
mark i' uie book.'
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THUVBEK-BOWT, sh. Papaver Bheku, conunoiL red Poppy. — Shbewsbxtby ; Wbllhtgton. Qy. com.
TEUHO, THUVK [thung-l, Shrewsbury; Pulvbrbatch ; Elles- KE&E. Qy. com. [thung'k]» Wem, «&.,
var, pr. a thong — a leather
boot-lace. * I give the cobbler a penny fur two thunkgJ
Wycliffe employe the form * thwong * in the same sense of a laoe. ' I knelinge am not worthi for to vndo, or
ynbynde, the thwong of his schoon.' —
Mark i. 7 (Oxford University Press, ed. 1860).
THUHOB [thunzh-], (1) v. n. to thump.— Wem; Ellbsmbrbl Qy. com. * whad wun*ee doin' las* neet,
thungin* o'er yed ? — ^I thought the
flur'd a come through.'
(2) ab, a thump ; a heavy &11, — ' I come down sich a thunge* Com.
TEUBH, «6., var. pr. a thorn, — * I've got a thum i' my finger as terrifies me despertly.' Qy. com.
TICE, V. a. to allure ; to tempt, or induce by temptation of some kind ; to entice. Com. ' Tak' a bit o' com
i' the sarver an' tioe the pony, it's
better than runnin* 'im round an' round.'
' All these & more lie glue thee for thy loue, If these & more, may tyce thy loue
away.'
ElCHABD Barnefield, The Affectionate Shepheard, A.D. 1594.
< « if I may know after this that
thou tice me, I- wis thou shalt haue
the law of the land." '
Sir Triamorey 1. 96. Percy Folio ITS., voL iL
p. 83, ed. Hales and FumivalL
* Tycyn\ or intycyn*. Instigo, allicio* — Prompt. Parv,
TICKLEB [tikiur'], ab. a slender steel rod terminated by a hook at a right angle, used for stirring the fire
slightly. — Shrewsbuby; Ellesmere.
TICKLISH, adj., pec. skittish; mettlesome. — ^Pulverbatch. *I dunna thmk the mar' 'as any vice, on'y a
bit ticklieh — 5dnna stan' much
w'ip-cwurd.' .
Bailey — ed. 1727 — ^has * Ticklish [with lIor8emen\ a Horse is said to be ticklish, that is, too tender upon
the Spur, and too sensible, that does
not freely fly the Spur, but in some measure resists them, throw- ing himself up, when they come near and
prick his Skin.'
TICKITBT, TICKITBT-WABE [tikni'], sb,, obsoU. common, coarse earthenware. — Shrewsbury; Pulverbatch;
Wem. •Theer's bin three folks 'ere
to-day o6th tickney, an* w'en I wanted some dishee fur 'arrdost nobodv come nigh.' The origin
of the term tickney may be found in
the following : —
' There was a Pottery at Ticknal near Derby as early as the 16th century, which produced articles of a
coarse hard body, of a dull brown
colour, sometimes decorated with yellow slip.' — Chapter's Porcelain, 3rd ed, p. 692.
Cf. Criokney-ware.
TICEKET-HAV, TICKVET-WOHAV [5om-u'n], *6., ob$ols. an
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itinerant yendor of coarse, common earthenware. — Ibid. 'Missis, dun'ee want anythin' off the tickney-man
f—'e'e at the door.' Cf. Crick-man,
&o.
TID (1), TIDE [tid', teid*], «5. time ; season, — ^an old word preserved in the compound forms, Ijuke'B-tid and
New-yis-ttcfe. See these ante.
* AUe fra ^e ^ai abide, I'at I'ou gif
l^am mete in tide, '
Metrical English Psalter^ can. (A.D. 1300, ante). [P«. civ. 27]. Specim. Early Eng.^ ii. 1.
64.
* Vemum tempue^ lencten-tid,' occurs in an Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary^ id. cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 76.
* A.Sax., 0,8ea..tid; O.IceL Ud; 0.n.Gterm. tdt; tide, tempue, JioraJ — Strat.
Tib (2), adj. tenderly careful of, and solicitous about — Shrews- BTTEY; Pulverbatch; Worthed; Glee Hills.
*Tum Lickus [Lucas] is despert tid on
*i8 young ooman, 'e's afeard o* the winde
blowin on 'er, aumust.*
* O.IceL tme ; aseiduue,* in Strat. See below. C£ Choioe.
TjjiDLE [tid'l], V. a. to nurse and nurture tenderly ; same as Taddle, q. V. — Shrewsbury ; Pijlvbrbatch. * Nancy,
1*11 gie yo' that little ratlin', if
yo' can tiddle it up, it might mak* a bit of a porkei'
Bailey — ed. 1727 — has ' Tiddle, to indulge, or fondle, to make much of.' So also given by Ash.
TjLDDLING, sb. a delicate child, or weak young animal, that needs — and receives — ^tender care. — Shrewsbury;
Pulverbatch; Oluw; Glee HTTJia. *
Maister, oon'ee plaze to come an* look at my tiddlin* as yo' wun so good to gie me ? — 'e dunna
look much like a ratlin' now, an' agen
'e's 'ad another bag o' male 'e'U mak* a rar* pig.'
Ash has ' Tiddling . . a fondled child, the youngest child ; a lamb brought up by hand.'
Of. A.S. tidder, tender ; weak ; frail.
TIDY [tei'di'], ad\ This word has a wide range of meaning beyond the ordinary one of neat; it signifies —
commonly — honest, thrifty, honourable
— * of good report ; ' pleasing, civil ; pretty ^ood, above
Sund'ys — it's a pity as theer inna more like 'im.' (2) * 'Er's sich a tidy spoken odman.' (3) *Yo'n got a tidy
pig theer, Timimas.' (4) * They tellen
me as 'e's comen into a tidy property : '— * the Missis gid me a tidy piece o' pork : ' — ' we'n a
tidv tutluree o' pars this 'ear : ' —
* it's a tidy step theer an' back ; I ooubt yo'n be despert tired.' Some examples of kindred usages of
the term tidif are adduced in the
followmg citations from early writers in the Salopian — or near akin to the Salopian — dialect : —
' As for a trewe tydy man • al tymes ylyke.'
Piere PL, Text B. pass. xix. 1. 436.
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' fill spadi >e king of spayne * to spede \fO nedes^ as fast clies him fifty ' of f ul greto
lordes, )>at tidi men were told *
& trewest of his reaume.*
WUliam of PcUerne, L 4166.
* & talkeden bi-twene • mani tidy wordes.* — Ibid, L 3077.
' Ne no tidi a-tir * in templus a-raie,
No figure of fin gold * fourme f^er-inne.'
Alexander and Dindimus, 1. 559.
' he laf to l^e kowherde * a kastel f ul nobul, pe mirest ypon fold * l^at euer freke seie,
and al )»at touched l^er * to a tidi erldome.'
William o/Falemey L 5384.
' Jie kinges sone aswi)»e * let sembul miche puple, , ft triced him to a tidi ost * of \>e
tide^ist bumes,
pat he nmth in )»e mene time ' in any manor gadere.'
Ibid. I 3556.
* Tydy . . . Probus.* — Promj^t. Parv.
Compare *O.Du. iidig ; O.K.Q«rm. ziHger {tempestivus), tidy,* in Strat. See Ontidy.
TIPT [tif-t], sb. a hasty quarrel. Com. * Why did you leave your place, Sarah ?' * Well, Ma'am, the Missis
an' me 'ad'n a bit of a ti/i, an' I
gid 'er notice.'
TILE [tei'l], V. a, to bait a trap by hanging a morsel of food on a hook. — PuLYEBBATCH. It IB sald of small
eaters that they ' donna yet as much
as o6d tile a trap.'
TILL [til*], cow/., pec, than, — * better till that.' — ^JTewport ;
Elles- MSRE. Uy. com. in N, 8hr. Cf.
Nor.
TILLING [til'in], sb. the grain-crops of arable land. — Shrewsbubt ; PiTLVERBATCH ; Wem. Qy. com. *Theer'll be
no gwein to the wakes, I can tell yo',
if we dunna get the tillin' 'oused sifore then, an* if 8 'ardly likely this casertly weather.'
A.S. tylung, crop; fruit; gain. See
Lent-tilling.
TILTEB [til'tur'], eb* Ephemera vulgata^ the May-fly. — Shbbws- BiTRY; Glee Hills. Qy. com. The tilter is
the green and grey drake of the
fly-fisherman ; it derives its name from the see-saw, ap- and-down flight of the fuUy-deyeloped
insect, — a motion more espe- cially
noticeable in the male.
TILTT [til'ti*], adj,y obsohA touchy. — Pulvbrbatoh. *I say, Jack, none o' yore tilty temper this mornin'.'
TIMBEBSOME [tim-bur'sum], (1) adj., obsolsA heavy ; bulky; unwieldy.— PuLVERBATCH. 'The Maister's
gettin' too tirr^>er80fne to ride
them yoimg 'orses ; a stiddy owd roadster 56d be best fur 'im.'
(2) cuij.t obsoU, tedious ; troublesome. — Ibid. * I amma-d-'afe sharp to-day, the child's bin so timbersome all
night.'
TIMEBSOME [tim'ur'sum], adj. timid; fearfuL — ^Pultbrbatch
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Mitch Wenlock; Newport. *Whad a timersome, frittened little thing yo* bin, to be afeard o' the
gonder.' Pegge has * Timersomey
fearful. North.'
TIVD [tin-d], v, a. and v. n. to ignite. — Shrewsbury ; Pulvbrbatoh ; WoRTHEN ; Ludlow. ' I canna get the fire to
tind this momin', the sticks bin as
wet as thetch.^
When ludfer matches were first introduced fabout 1834), an old man cried them about in Ludlow — with the
following extempore rime —
* For lightin* yore candles and tindirC yore fire, These are the best matches I Whad can yo'
desire P *
' No man tendith a lanterne, and puttith in hidlis, nether vndur a buyschel, but on a candilstike, that thei
that goen in, se lut.' — Luke xi. 33.
Wycliffite Version, ed. A.D. 1388.
' A.S. tendan^ tyndan; Dan. tcmd; GK)th. tandjan, to tind, kindle, infiame.' — Strat.
Compare Eng. tinder, also Kind (1).
tIhjs [tei'n], (1) sb. the prong of an agricultural fork. — Shrews- bury; PuLVERBATOH ; Craven Arms ; Ludlow.
Qy. com. in 8. 8hr. * That fellow's
broke one o' the tines of my shareyil diggin'
up a gooseb'ry bush, stid o' gettin* a spade.' See below. Cf. Tang
(2).
(2) ah, the tooth of a harrow or other similar implement. Com. 'Scuffle with 11 tinee,^ — Auctioneer* a
Catalogue (Stoddesden), 1870. 'A. Sax.
tind; O.Icel. tindr; M.H.Gbrm. zint, tine, dens, ramua.^ —
Strat.
(3) V. a. to enclose ; tohedeein. — Ktj.esmurb, WeUhampton. 'The men's piittin' goss o' the wall to tine the
cats out/ said Mary Price, on
observing that a neighbour was enclosing his garden with fiirze.
' All ould tenants shall haue, severall aU the yeare, a croft and a medow, or a place of medow ground, or more
if he will ; but the new tenant may
not challenge any by costome, but [pnlv'i by sufferance of the onld tenants ; but that they leaue
to tine and keep so that his neighbor
be harmelesse by cattel ; but if the[y] be hurt, he shall be greyiosely amerced, and largely make amends
to his neighbor for his trespasse. — '
' Costomary of l?ettenhall Regis." A copymade 22d July, ie(H:—Engliah Oilda, their Statutea and
Ouatoma, E. E. T. S.
* Tynydj or hedgydde. Septua.^ — Prompt, Parv. A.S. tynan, to hedge in, enclose.
(4^ V. a. to mend a hedge. Qy. oom. ' Tine the flat, an' dunna mak a crow's nist on it,' t. e, mend the
gap substanticuly, by putting plenty
of thorns and stakes in it.
TIHED, adj, furnished with tines, Qy. com.
* Two &ye'titied turnip forks.' — Auctioneer^a Catalogue (LongyiUe), 1877.
* Tynydf wythe a tyne,* occurs in Prompt Parv.^ p. 494. See Tine (1) and (2), above.
TIVO-TAirG', {!) sb. B, peal of two bells : a term derived from the sound — the lighter bell being ting, the
heavier, tang, Qy. com. 'We 'ad'n a
grand weddin' at 'Aii'ood o' Mond'y — ^the ting-tang clattered
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away 56th a will — ^they wan axed-up o' Sond'y) so they didna 'ang lung i' the bell-ropes.'
g) V. n. to ring into church with two belLs. Qy. com. rose has ' Ting-tang. The little bell of a
church. N/ Qi Ton^ (1), also Tang (1).
TIPE [tei'p], V, a, to tip over; to throw over. — Pulvbrbatoh. *I tiped the pall o'er 5dth my ftit.'
TIPLET [tip'li'J, adj, clean ; tidy ; smart, — ^but the term is usually employed in irony to express something
'quite other.' — ^Pulvbb- BATCH. '
Han'ee sin that SSman — ^that new comer ? ' ' Aye, 'er looks a tiplei/ body, I should think 'er hanna
weshed 'er &ce mr a wik o'
Sund'ys.'
TISST-BALL, sh. a cowslip-balL — Pulvbrbatoh; Wbm; Elles- KEBE. Children playing with a ball of this
kind, toss it up and Bay—
* Tissy-hcdlf tiesy-hally tell me true —
How many years have I to go through f '
Then, if they catch it as it comes down they count it for ' a year,' and so, on and on, as the ball is tossed up and
caught again.
Compare 'Tytetust, or tusmose of flowrys or othyr herlr^s. Ol/act&rium, .... "A Tuttie,
nosegay, posie, or tozziemuzzie,
FoBciciduSf Bertum ol/adorium,** — G-QITUSK. See Tosty in
Jennings' W. Country Qlowary ; and
also ''Teestv-tosty, the blossoms of cow-
slips collected together, tied in a globular form, and used to toss to and fro for an amusement called
teesty-toaty. It is sometimes called
simply a tosty." Donne, Hist of the Septuagint, speaks of a '*
girdle of flowers and tussies of all
fruits intertyed," &c., in Prompt, Farv, and Notes.
Ct Tossy-ball.
TIT, sb. a horse. Com. ' That's a smart little tit o* the Maister^a^ — it gwuz o£F the ground sharpish.'
* By tits and such few gaineth
much.' TussER, Septemhera Jhatrady ed.
E. D. S., p. 81.
Grose has * Tit. A horse. N.*
TITHEB rtidh-url, (1) sh., obaols.'i the simame Tudor. — Polvbb- BATCH. Mr. Haltiwell gives * Tet?ier, the
royal name Tudor.'
(2) V. a, to pet, as of young things. — MuoH Wenxook. C£ Tiddle.
TITLARK, sb. Anthtis prateneisy Meadow Pipet; and Anthus arhdreuta. Tree Pipet, respectively. Com.
C£ Ic^. tittry a tit, small bird.
TITTLE-OOOSE, sb. a tattling, foolish woman. — Pulverbatch. * Han'ee 'eSrd whad Nancy Bowen's bin
sayin* P * * No, I 'anna, an it dunna
much matter whad sich a tittle-gooae as 'er says.'
TITTOES, sb. pi. potatoes. — ^Ellesmerb. See Potatoes.
TITTOES-Alf'-TOUCH, sh. potatoes and milk, on this wise,— « dish
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is lined with mashed potatoes, a well being left in the centre, which is filled with hot milk haying a lump of
butter in it ; into this each helping
of potatoes is slightly dipped. — Ellesmere. A story is told of a fie^mer^s wife that, as she placed oef
ore ' the men * a supper of potatoes
and milk prepared in the manner here described, she said —
fearing they would help themselves too
lavishly to the buttered milk — ' Now,
chaps, yo' Tnaunna tak' it all at wunst, yo' maun touch it, an' touch it : * whence arose the term — * Tittoes
arC touch!*
TITTOSIVG' [tituYin], part, setting, or getting up, potatoes. — Eli«E81C£RE. ' Our little Jack's gwun
UUorin^ alung wuIJi is Faither, — 'e
can drop tittoes as well as a mon.'
TITTY [tit-i'j, 8h. a mother^s breast or milk. Com.
' Mammille^^ glossed * tittaa,* occurs in an Anglo-Scucon Vocabulary , X. or xi. cent., m Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p.
283.
'A.8ax. UU; O.Du. titte; M.H.Germ. zUze, tit, wJcr.*— Strat.
TO-BOST, V. n. to burst asunder. — Pijlverbatch. * Mary, yo* see an' bring that stean in to-night ; if it
fireezes we sha'n '&ve it to-boti
like the tother — ^it wuz clane split i' two, like as if it *ad bin
cut.'
* l^e kouherde kayred to his house ' karful in hert, ft nei3 to-barst he for bale * for I'e
bames sake.'
WUli'am of Faleme, L 874.
To-bost is especially noteworthv as an instance of preservation in the Shropshire folk-speech, of the A.S.
verbal prefix to-, meaning apart^
asunder ^ in two pieces.
To'bost := A.S. toberstan, to burst asunder, break, dash in pieces. See * To- ' in the Oloasarial Index to
William of PcUerne, p. 311.
TOEfiT [toahVtJ. See Frommet (1) and (2).
• •
TOEETLT, €uij\ thriving; promising. — ^Pulvbrbatch. Qy. com. 'That's a toertly little pig o* yores,
Yedart.* * Aye, it's a tidy aven fur
another 'ear.'
TO 00 TO THE WATERS, phr. to go to the sea.— Shrewsbury ; Much Wenlock.
• 1808. August 1* W Beech, Sarah Dodd & Mary Weale to go to the salt water £5.6. 0.' — Pariah Accounts,
Much Wenlock.
Compare the French oiler aux eaux,
TOITEEES. See Tawtrees.
TOLLBATCH, sb. a miller. — Wellington. See Batch (2).
TOHKY-TAILOK, sb. the caterpillar of the Tiger-Moth, — Ardia caja. Com. Cf. Woolly-Bear.
TOH-VOTIP [turn nou-p], sb, Parus major, the Great Titmouse. Com. It is proverbially said of a
swaggering, pretentious little man that,
* 'E's lite a Tum-noup on a round o' bif.' See Nope.
TO-HOBEOW-DAY, sb. the morrow; to-morrow. — Shrewsbubt;
PULVS&BATOH ; ElLBSMEBB.
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* & when it was on the Morrow day,
Tkiamore was in good array
armed & well dight.'
Sir Triamore, 1. 738. Pcrw Folio M8., voL ii.
p. 105, ed. Hales and FumiyalL
TOITE, adj, one. A fonn but rarely used, — *the tone on 'em:* * both the tone an' the tother on 'em/ —
Newport.
' Remembrith yhow, this world hat hot o naam
Of good or ewill, efter ^he ar gone !
And wysly tharfor chessith yhow the ton Wich most acordith to nobilitee.'
Lancelot of the Laik, L 1822.
* The tone of them was Adler yonge.
The tother was Kyng Estmere.'
King Estmere, L 5, in Percy* b Beliques, ed. 1765.
The tone = AS. t>cet dn. See Grammar OutlineB (adjectives of numeration), p. xlvi. See also Tother.
lOSQty (I) sh. the sound produced by a slow, single stroke on a church-beU ; the stroke itself. —
Pulvebbatch. Qy. com. * The bell gies
a tong or two Ven they comen out o' Church, jest to tell folks to ^t the dinner ready.' This was
said with reference to a usage which
obtained at Churton Church of sounding the bell as the congre^tion left, by way of conveying a
timely warning to their respective
households — ^far or near — that they were ' out,' and to have all things in readiness for their return.
Ot Ting-tang^ (1). See Bk n..
Folklore, &c., * Bells.'
(2) V, a, and v. n. to cause to sound, — to sound in one tone, as of a church-bell. — Ibid, * The girld never piit
the net o' tatoes i' the biler till
'er 'eard the bell tong, an' the Maister, 'e wuz fine an' crousty at the dinner bein' a bit late.'
TOP, V. a. to snuff a candle. — ^Pulvebbatch ; "Wbit. * Jest top
that candle, — it's got a wick as lung
as a fortnit.'
TOP AND BTTT, phr, to chop off the tops and fibrous roots of turnips. — Clee HiIiLS. See But (3) and
(4).
TOP ABTD TAIL, same as above. Com. "£r's workin' i* the filds now, toppin* an' tailin^ turmits.'
TOP COAL, ah. a very valuable coal for general purposes. — ^Colliebt ; M. T.
' The Tard and Top Oocds contain specimens of the Calamite, the Stigmaria, Sigillaria, and several genera
of the Lycopodiacece.^ — Note$ on the
Shropshire Coal-Field, by T. Pabton, F.G.S., 1868. See Coal-Field and Goal-Names, pp. 90, 92.
TOP O'EB TAIL [taayl], adv., obsols, head over heels — completely over. — Pulvebbatch. * 'E jest gid 'im a
bit of a shove, an* 'e went top o'er
Uul all down the bonk.'
' & happili to \>e hinde * he hit l^anne formest, & set hire a sad strok ' so sore in l^e
necke, l^at sche top ovuer tail *
tombled ouer )»e haoches.*
William ofFaUrne, 1. 2776.
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' " yee dance neither Gkdlyard nor hawe,
Trace nor true mesure, as I trowe,
but hopp as yee were woode." when
they began of ffoote to ffayle, th6
tumbled top ouer tayhy & Master
and Master they yode.' John de Reeue,
1. 534. Fercy Folio MS., vol. ii. p. 679,
ed. Hales and Fumiyall.
TOP-UP, V, a. to complete the top of a stack. — ^Pulvbrbatch. Qy. com. ' Yo* mun get some rushes an' top-up
the stack, it's too flat-- we sha'n a
the clover spiled.'
TOBHENTLL [taur'men'til], sb, Lamiumpurpureumy red Dead-nettle. — Craven Abscs, Stokesay, The true
TormerUil belongs to another ffenus —
Bosacece — and is the plant referred to as * TurmentyUe, herbe. jTormentilla,^ in Frompt Farv, See
Dun-nettle.
TOBJtIL [tor'-il], sb, a weak, mean, pitiful person, — one who has a Borry appearance; a poor, ill-nourished
looking animal. — PuLVBB- BATOh;
Wellington. Qy. com. (1) 'Dunna yo' think as I'm gwein to piit up 66th a poor torril like
'im — ^111 plaze my eye, if I plague
my 'eart. (2) ^ I think yo'n feed yore cauve to djeth — ^it looks a poor torril.*
TOSSICATEB [tos'i'kaitid], adj., ohsohA harassed; worried,— •upset* as by vexation or trouble. —
Pulverbatoh. 'Poor owd Molly looks
bad, 'er's bin sadly tosaicnted lately 56th one thing or tother — Jack gwern fur a sodger, an' the
poor owd mon bein' '\n% an'
altogether.'
TOSST-BALL, same as Tissy-ball, q. v. — Shrewsbury.
TOT, sb. a small drinking-cup, holding from about quarter of a pint to half a pint. Com. ^ Tak' a can o* owd
beer an' a couple o' tots, an' gie 'em
a tot apiece jest to finish up.' Harvest-beer is served out to the men, after dinner and supper, in
small tots. See Tottle, below.
TOTHEB, adj. other, — * one thing or tother ; ' — * this or the tother, Vich yo'n a mind to.' Com.
' No man may seme tweyn lordis, for ethir he sohal hate the toon, andloue the tother; ethir he shal susteyne
the toon, and dispise the Mhir.'—MaU.
vi. 24, Wycliffite Version, a.d. 1388.
The tother z=z the other, that other = A.S. \>ost o]>ere, where }^t
is the neuter gender of the definite
article. See Grammar Outlines
{adjectives of numercUion), p. xlvi. See also Tone.
TOTTLE, sb. a tot-ful. — Pulverbatch. 'Jest gie the men a tottle o* owd beer apiece, after thar supper, an'
tell 'em as that'll pin up the bag,'
i. e. will be the last the occasion will afford. To pin vp the hoff is to conclude an affair — ^to '
finish up,' as of Harvest-supper,
Olmstmas merry-making, or other like. Of. Thinkle. See Grammar Outlines {nouns compounded tifith -Ail), p.
xliii.
TOTTT, adj. exhilarated with drink — not absolutely drunk : a man in this latter stage of intoxication, would
be said to have had * a tot too much.'
— ^Pulverbatch. * 'Ow did the Maister come wham las' night^wuz ' e drunk ? ' * Oh no ! on* y
jest a bit totty, '
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' Then came October full of merry glee ;
For yet his noule was tcfUy of tlie must. Which he was treading in the wine-fietts
see.'
Spenser, P, Q., Bk. YLL a viL si xxzix.
See ToUy, in Hal. Gf. Fresh (1), also Market-peart.
TOirZLE [tou'zlj, V. a. to put into disorder ; to turn things orer roughly; to rumple. — Shbeitsbitbt ;
PuiiVEEB atch ; Bridgnorth; Ellesmerk
Qy. com. * Dimna UmzU tiiat drawer o'er — it wva on'y isterd'y as I fetued it, w'en I put my best
gownd away/
* May never wicked Fortune Umxle him !
May never wicked men bamboozle him ! '
Robert Burns, Poems, p. 122, 1. 31, c. 2.
Compare 'To-tused^ := entirely rumpled or tumbled, in Havdok the Dane : —
* And bemard sone ageyn [him] nam, Al
to-ttued and al to-tom/~L 1948.
Bailey — ed. 1727 — has * Tou'zledy pulled about, tumbled, mmplftd/ ' Low Du. ttudn, to pull or hale about ; to
tug.' — Wedq. See Touale in Jamieson.
Qt Toze, below.
TOWTHEBIHG [tou'dhur'in], part adj. flocking, or streaming out, as sheep breaking pasture, or bees coming
fortii from the hive. — PaLVERBATGH ;
W ELUNGTON. ' Them ship han made a glat i' tiie 'edge, an' a bin towtherin* out o' the
leasow into the lane — ^yo'd'n better
look sharp an* fatch 'em up.' Of. Kamiag (1).
TOZE [toa'z], (1) v. a. to pull asunder, or open, the locks of wool with the nn^rs, — a process preparatory to
carding := to tease, in modem English.
— Puii verb atoh ; Gorve Dale. B&& example wb voce Tag.
' What schepe that is full of wulle,
Upon his backe they to»e and pulle.'
John Gk)WER (a.d. 1393), Confeseio AmanHs
{Prologue),
* Thinkest thou, for that I insinuate, or toaze from thee thy business, I am therefore no courtier P I am courtier
cap-a-pe ; and one that will either
push on or pluck back thy business there : whereupon I command tnee to open thy affair.' —
Winter's Tale, TV. iv. 60.
Compare * TotLse* in Measure for Meaeure, V. i. 313. Bailey— ed. 1727 — gives *To IW, to pull
asunder, to make soft; ' also, *
Td*zyness, Softness, like tozed WooU.*
* Toson' wulle or other lyke (tosyn or tose wul, S.). Carpo, ** I toose wolle, or cotton, or suche lyke ; je
force de laine, and je charpie ds la
laine : It is a great craft to tose wolle weL" — Palsg. "
Tosing, earptvra; to tose wool or
lyne, carpo, carmtno." — GoiTLDM. '-^Prompt Pa/rv. and Notes.
Mr. Wedgwood says, * To touse wool is to puU the flocks to ^Hfioes and lay them together again ; ' he refers
the term to Low Du. tusdn; Germ,
tausen. Of. Tousle, above.
(2) V. a. to pluck with the daws, as oats do» when — ^in stretching their fore-legs — ^they press against any
objeot with extended paws. —
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PuLYERBATOH. ' Biiye that cat off — 'er'U Ukbc the cushion all to pieces.'
TBAMMEL j^tr*am'hl], t;. n. to go some little distance for any pur- pose, as being compelled to do so, and
goiag with reluctuice. — EUiESMBRE,
WelsJiampton, * I maun trammel all the way to Elles- mei^ after that tay, I reckon, fur I conna
get non* no nigher.*
TBAMMEL-HET, sh. a drag-net used for taking salmon and trout in the Seyem. — ^Bredgnobth. This net is
usually from 40 to 60 yards long, and
about 5 ft. wide ; one side of it is tied up at short distances with string, so as to fold over
and form a kina of pouch, thus making
it less easy for the fish to escape as the net drags the bottom of the river — ^this side is sunk
with lead- weights ; the opposite one
is floated with corks, and has at each end a long line, by which two men— one, in a boat, the other, on the
riyer-bauk — drag the net across and
down the stream. Trammel-net is a redundant form; trammel is an old word, meaning net.
Spenser uses it —
' Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye
In breaded trameU^ that no looser heares Did out of order stray about her daintie
eares.'
i^. Q., Bk. n. 0. iL st. XT.
Bailey— ed. 1727— has ' Trammel [tramail, -F.] a Sort of
Net for Fowling, also for Fishing.'
See TrameHy in Wedq. Fr. tramail; It. tramdglio^ a net ; trammel.
TBANCEEB [tr'an'sbur'l, sb, a wooden platter. — Pulvebbatch. * Yo* can al'ays tell a clane sarvant by the
piggins an* trcmch^rs,* Tranckera (or
trenchers) were formerly used for cold meat ; they are obsolete for that purpose, but are still in
common requisition as bread- platters.
'Fr. tranchoir, a platter. O.Fr. TrencJier . . . trancJier, trancher, tailler, couper.' — Bub.
Of. Trencher. See Pigfirin (1), also Treen.
TRAHKLEMEXTTS, sb, pi odds and ends lying about. Com. ' Now then, young uns, dier away yore
trankHemenUJ
TRAPSE [tr'ai-ps], (1) v, n, to walk in a slovenly way — ^a term generally used with regard to mud and mire,
but occasionally to the dust of roads.
Com.
' I hate the sight o' women going about trapseing from house to house in all weauiers, wet or dry, and
coming in wit^ their petticoats
dagged, and their shoes all over mud.' — Geobge Eliot, Scenes
from Clerical Life (Amos Barton). Ash gives * Traipse, To walk in a careless
or sluttish manner.'
(2) V. a. to make dirty footmarks by heedless steps to and fro. Com. 'That careless wendi comen in 5oth the
palls jest after I'd swilled the flur,
an' trapsed it all o'er.'
(3) V. n. to walk in a heavy, sluggish way. — ^Wem. * 'B wuz trips- ing aJung o'er the follow as if 'e*d
neither lost nur won.*
(4) sb. a long, dirty, tiring walk—purposeless as to results, being generally understood in the application of
the term. Com. ' A fine tr«pef I W fur
nuthin' !— the folks wun out w'en I got theer.'
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TKA8H, (1) sb, a slattern ; a Borry, worthless kind of person.— Brtdgnorth ; WHircHUiiCH ; Ellesmere. *
Er^s a re^^ tra$h-' I dunna know 'ow
the Missis pi^ts np wuth *er, fur I comdna.'
Compare Shakespeare's * poor trash of Venice.' — Othello, 11. L 312.
(2) V. n. to walk over land in a heedless way — ^to trample it down BO as to injure it, or the crops growing
upon it. — Ibid. * If the French did
come 'ere, they might spile the land a bit — ^they mef n trash o*er it, but they couldna carry it
away wi* 'em : * so said a feirmer in
the neighbourhood of WhizaU. Compare Shakespeare's use of ^e word tra^h as a verb in Othello,
II. L 312. See Trash in Nabes.
TREE (1), TBET [tr'ee-l, Com. [tr'ai-], Newport, «6., pec. a flower- pot plant of any woody kind. * lih ! s!
that mon — 'e's plontin' treys,' said
an Edgmond child, on seeing a gardener *■ bedding out '
geraniums. The form treys appears in
the Porhington MS, — temp. Ed. IV.— as
follows : —
' Whenne the mono is in Tauro^ hit is good to plante treys of pep3rnB, and whenne hit is in Cancro, in Leone, or
in Libra, thanne hit is good to werche
in treys that be new spronge . . . Also to remeye treys fro place to place : ^iff it be a grete tre, or
a tre that berythe the fnite, chese
the a fuUe mone . . .' — Early English Miscellanies in Prase and Verse, edited by J. O. Halliwell for the
Warton Club, 1855, p. 66.
* A.Sax. tredw; O.Sax. tris; GK>th. triu; CFris., O.IceL tre, tree.' — Strat.
TBEE (2), sb. the handle of a spade. — Pulverbatch. Qy. com. ; Whad's split the tree o' the spade ? ' *
The tumbril w'^gl went o'er it.' ' Tre
is found in the early writers, with the meaning of a bar or staff of wood. 'Dore-tre,^ i.e. the bar of
the door, occurs in Hauelok the Dane :
—
' Hauelok lifte up )»e dore-tre, And
at a dint he slew hem l^re.^ — ^L 1806.
Cf. Spittle-tree. See Swingle-tree, also Tawtree.
TBEEN [tr'ee'n], adj. wooden, — a term applied to utensils for domestic purposes, and sometimes used elliptically
to denote the things them-
selves.--CoRVE Dale ; Bridgnorth.
* Plow3e and harwe coude he di^t,
Treen beddes was he wont to make.'
Cursor Mundi, MS. CoU. THn. Cantab., f. 77, L 12388.
Tusser says, ' Treene dishes be homely ; * — see ' Dinner Matters,* ed. E. D. S., p. 175.
Harrison, m his Description of England — a.d. 1577 — speaking of things * greatlie amended ' in his day, of
which one was ' Furniture of
household,* says with reference to this : — * The third thing they tell of, is the exchange of yesseU, as of
treene platters into pewter, and
woodden spoones into siluer or tin. For so common were all sorts of treine stuffe in old time, that a man
should hardlie find foure pieces of
pewter (of which one was peraduenture a salt) in a good farmer's house.*
* Tumynge, or throwynge of treyn vessel. Treen is retained in E.
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Anglian dialect as an adjectivei wooden. See Moor's Suffolk Words, V. Ti-een.* — Prompt Parv, and Notes. See Piggin (1), also C^uaigh (1) and
Tranoher.
TBENCHEB [tr^en-shur'], ah. a wooden platter — same as Tranoher, q. T. Com.
* The little otUd Buttery some few trencher$,' — Inventory . . • Owlbury Manor-Honse, Bishop's Castle, 1625.
'He that waits on another man's trencher makes many a late . dinner/ — Bay's Proverbs^ p. 22.
TBICKLINOS [tr'ik'linz], eh. sheep's dang.^-PuLVERBATCH. It was formerly— -before the age of
vaccination — a popular belief that
'ship's iricklin'a,' duly administered, would cure the small
-pox. ' Bessy, yo' mind as Granny
dunna put ship's tricklin's V my yarb-
tay , 1 canna tak' it if 'er does — nod if I'm marked ever so/
TBIFLIVG', adj.j pec. tedious ; tiresome ; troublesome : said of any employment that takes up a good deal of
time, and has little to show for it. —
WoBTHEN, Cfierbury. See example $ub voce "Winberry.
TEIO [trig], (1) t?. a. to trick out; to make spruce. — Pulvbbbatch. Bbidgnobth. * Sally's gwe¥n to the Club —
^I warrant 'er'U trig out in all -er
finery.'
' And mak yoursells as trig, head, feet, and waist. As ye were a' to get young lads or e'en.*
Allan Bamsat, The Gentle Shepherd^ U. L p. 26.
(2) a5. a small gutter, — same as Rigol (1), q. v. — Pulyebbatoh ; Wbllinqtow. * Yo' nee'na cut it dip— on'y a
bit of a trig.'
(3) V. a. to make shallow furrows, or trigs, as between seed-beds for onions, carrots, &a, — 'I trigged
the ground afore I piit the seed in.*
— WELLmGTON.
TBIM, V. a., pec. to chide ; to chastise. Com. ^ Yore Mother'li trim yo', if yo* dunna come back.*
TBIMPLE [tr'im-pl], v. n. to limp; to tread gingerly, — to walk as people do who suffer from corns, or tender
feet, or whose shoes hurt them. —
Pulvbbbatch; Wellington. **0w that chap trimpUs alung — 'e met be walkin' on sparables.'
TBIHDIiE [tr*in*dl1, (1) sb. the wheel of a barrow. — Ellesmbbb. I To* maun grace tne trindU o* that
w'^elbarrow, I conna bar to 'ear it
squaikin*.
' Wheel carriages I ha'e but few,
Three carts, an* twa are feckly new ;
Ae auld wheelbarrow, mair for token,
Ae leff, an* baith the trams, are broken ; I made a poker o' the spin'le. An' my auld mother brunt the trin*le.*
Bobebt Bxtbns, Poems, 1. 33, p. 104.
* Hec troilia, a trindyUe,' occurs in a Nominale^ xv. cent., amount other terms relating to spinning, and Mr.
Wright gives the glossanal note : — '
The wheel. It is still m use in the dialect of Derbyshire.' — See Wr. vocabs., vol, i p. 217.
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*A.8ax., M.H.Germ. trendtl, trendle {trindU, trundle), hoop/ — Strat. See Trundle.
(2) V, a. to wheel, as a barrow. — Ihid.
* M.B[.GtenxL trendeln, to trindle (trundle).' — Strat.
(3) V. a, to twirl a mop rapidly — ^by a dexterous movement — ^be- tween the hands and arms. — Shuewsbubt;
Pulyebbatch. Qy. com. ' The wilrit*s
put sich a rough stale i' the mop, it tars the skin off my arms to trin^ it.'
(4) sb. a disc used by blacksmiths for measuring the circumference of wneels — a * traveller.* — ^Whitohurch.
TROLLOP, (1) sb, a slattern. Com. * I never aid sich a trollop as that 5oman — 'er petticuts wun dagged 'afe
a yard dip.'
(2) ab, an unbroken £all, a term used with reference to a person falling helplessly, — * *E come down wi*
sich a troUop,^ — ^Whttchurch.
TBOLLT, sh a low, two-wheeled cart, used for the lighter kinds of field work.— Pulvbrbatch; Clutt; Ludlow;
Bridokorth. 'Ifs no use takin' the
waggin fax them fyeow faggits, the trolly an' a couple o' 'orses 561 bring 'em aisy.'
TBOirSE [tr'ou's], sb. hedge-cuttings, — ^such as are taken out in ' laying,' or * pleaching,' a hedge, and
which are serviceable in mend- ing the
gaps, Ac Com. ' Some o' that rough trouse 551 be rar' stuff fur breaStm' the 'edge to keep the ship
out.'
' Provided alwavs that they be laid with green willow bastons, and for default thereof, with vine cutting or
such trousse, so that they lie half a
foot tiiick.' — Holland's Flint/, m Wedg.
Mr. Wedgwood lavs, ' Trouse is still used in Hereford for the trim- mings of hedges.' He refers the term to '
O.N. tro$, o&l, rubbish; N. troa,
broken branches in a wood, dry, broken twigs.'
Of. Brouse.
TBOW [tr'oa*], (1). See Kneading-trow.
(2) [tr'oa*], ab,, oba, a Severn trading vessel — a barge on a rery large scale — ^wide, flat-bottomed, and
schooner-rigged, usually about 80, or
from 80 to 90, tons burthen, occasionally larger still, and some- times smaller ; there were trowa of not
more than 40 tons : they used to
navigate up-stream, beyond Shrewsbury, as high as Pool Quay, but no farther. Trowa have long ceased to
ply up and down Shrop- shire Severn,
discharging and tafing in cargo at tne different wharfe in the course of their passage — ' noua
avona changS tout cda* since the Age
of Bailwavs — but the name of the old vessel is still preserved [1880] as a Public-house sign, ' The Trwo,'
at Jackfield (Salop).
TBOWMAH, eb,^ obe, the sailing-master or captain of a trow.
* This Indenture made the Twenty Seventh Day of August in the Twenty Sixth Tear of the Beigne of our
Soveiei^e Lord George the second by
the Grace of God of great Brittain f^rance and Ireland E[ing Defender of the Faith and so forth
and in the Year of our Lord One
Thousand Seven hundred and Fifty two Between John Bogers of the Town of Shrewsbury in the
Ck)\mty of Salop Trowman and Martha
his Wife of the one part and Thomas Bogers of the said
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Town of Shrewsbury Trawman and Brother of the said John Bogers of the other part &c. Ac'
The foregoing is quoted from the preamble to a priyate deed which seems to relate to the transfer of some
property at FrankweU (Shrews- bunr) :
the deed itself is endorsed, — * Owner John Bogers's Settlement.'
Trourman occurs in an old Bridgnorth Burgess-list as follows : —
* Thomas Boberts of Bewdley Trotvnian 12 Sep. 1745.
* John Steward of Bewdley Troivman 11 May 1745.'
The persons, whose names are thus recorded, were admitted to the Freedom of Bridgnorth, on the dates
specified.
* The yonger son of Charles Beve of Myddle Wood, had lived a yeare
and more in Glostershire Our officers brought him beefore
Mr. Bowland Hunt, and there hee declared upon oath that his last
settlement was in the Parish of , in Glostershire, and there an
order was made to bring him. Thil^er hee was sent by water to Gloster ; Faireley of Atcham, the trowman,
had seven shillings to bring him
thither and to maintaine him by tiie way.' — ^Qough's His- tory of MyddUy p. 168.
See Owner.
TB1TB [tr'ub], adj, neat; tidy ; trim. — ^PaLVERBA^TCH. **l8 Mother wuz a mighty tid^r o5man — 'er al'ays
looked so clane an' trvh! Mr.
Hedliwell gives * Truh^ a slattern,' as a Devonshire word.
TBITCK, eh, dealings, — to have * no truck * with a person — ^the term is always used with a ne^tion — ^is to have
nothing to do with him, to wash one's
hands of him. Com.
TBTTHDIiE ftr'un'dl], sh, a brewing-vessel ; a round cooler. — Pulver- BATCH. ' Better part the drink, it's
gettin' too warm — piit some i' the
trundle.* See Strat. sub voce Trindle (1). Of. Bunlet.
TUmSEL, eh, a heavy, broad-wheeled cart, used for carrying manure, for the most part Com.
* Broad- wheel tumbrel,^ — AuKtioneer^a Catalogue (Lon^^ville), 1877. Tusser has 'Light tumbrel and doong crone,'
in his 'husbandHe
fdmiture : ' see p. 36, ed. £. D. S.
The Prompt, Parv. gives * Tomerel, donge cart.*
TUMMT, sb.y si A bread and cheese — Elleshere; Wem. Qy. com. ' Whad'n'ee got fur yore dinner P ' said a
child to his school-feUow, as, lessons
over, they * opened out' their provisions. ^Only tummy ; whad'n yo' got P ' '^Mother's gid me a
chittelin'-puflf.' * Well, yo' gie me
a bit o' that, an' I'll gie yo* a bit o' my tummy, an' then we sha'n b6oth be the richer.'
TUMMT-AWK, sb. a dung-fork, carried at the back of the cart, and used to scrape out the manure, on the land,
as it is required. — Wem ; Ellesmbre.
The term seems to be a ludicrous corruption of tomahawk. Of. Dnnnuk.
TDVP, (1) sb, a mound, — such as is raised by ants or moles. — Shrewsbury; Pulverbatch; Worthen; Corve
Dale; Clek Hills; Ludlow; Bridonorth;
Much Wenlook; Wellikoton. ' I believe
the froB* is gwein, for I see 66n.ty-tump$ throwed up i' the meadow.'
W. twmpt a mound. See Anty-tump, also Odnty-tump.
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(2) $b, a store-heap of potatoes, turnips, &c, covered with straw or fern, and enclosed with earth. — Ibid. *
Yo'n got a rar' tump o' tatoes,
Tummas.' ' Aye, theei's more fyam an' mowld than tatoes,
Maiister.* Cf. Bury (2), also Hod (1)
and Hog (3).
(3) V. a. to put potatoes, &c. into a tump. — Ibid. * Fve bin
sortin* tatoes an' puttin 'em into
tiie irenches, fur John to tump w*en 'e
laves ofP work' dee example sub voce Stelch (1). Cf. Hod (2), also
(3). 4) 8b. a clump, as of trees. — ^Wem ; WHiTGHimcH ; Ellesmebs. ^e can see the tump o* trees at The Crimps
from our *ouse,' said a Welshampton
woman.
* When he was come to the top of the long, black combe
he stopped his little na^ short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behmd a tump of
whortles.' — K. D. Blackmoile, Loma
Dooncy A Eomance of Exmoor, p. 188, ed. 1878.
W. turmpath, a bush.
TTTN-DISH, (1) «&. a tin funnel for filling bottles.— Shrewsbury ; Atcham ; PuLVEBBATCH ; Bbidgnobth ;
Newpobt. Qy. com.
* Filling a bottle with a tun-dish,' — Measure for Measure^ m. ii. 182.
(2) same as Tunning-dish, below. — Shbewsbuby; Newpobt.
TVNVINO-DISH, ah, a wooden funnel, used for filling barrels.— Shbewsbuby; Ellesmebb, Welshampton; Wem.
* Hoc columy Hoc infusorium^ An^ tunnyng,' occurs — under the head. * PanducsatoT cum suis Instrumentis* — in a
Pictorial VocabiUary, xv. cent., in
Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 276.
* Infusorium^ A timnell, an eure.' — Diet. Etym. Lot.
TTTNVINO-G'ATTir, same as above. — Ellesmere. See Oaon (2).
TTTHPAIL, same as above. — Pulverbatch ; Craven Arms ; Chuboh Stbetton; Bbidgnobth.
'Lading-bucket and tunpaiV — Auctioneer's Catalogue (Longville), 1877.
TUP, sb. a ram. Com.
' O Lord, when hunger pinches sore.
Do thou stand us in need, And send us
from thy bounteous store, A tup or
wether head ! Amen.'
BoBEBT BxTBNS, Poems, p. 175, L 18.
* Hie vervexy A^ a tuppe.'— -ATrwitnoZc, xv. cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 219.
* VerveXy A weather or sheep.' — Did. Etym. Lot.
TXTELF, sh. peat, dried and cut into pieces for fuel, — each several piece is called ' a turf; ' the plural form
is turfs. — N. 8hr.
* Good turffe and peate, on mossie ground is won, Wherewith eood fires, is made for man most
meete, That bumetin cleere, and yeelds
a savour sweete To those which have no
nose for dayntie smeU, The finer sort,
were best in court to dwelL'
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' For fewell, although many of the greatest woods are cutt downe, vet there is siifficient left for timber
and fire-boot for most tenements.
There is likewise a Turbary in Haremeare which belongs to the
Lord of the Manor, and was formerly a
great benefit to the neighbours ; but
now they haye taken a trade of earning them to Shrewsbury and selling them ; soe that the Turbary is much
wasted and the Turfe» are much dearer.
Soe that a yard of peates which was formerly at 8d. is now sett at 2s. Note that a yard of
peates is 80 square yards, yiz. : —
soe many peates as can bee oQgged in and layd to Sxy upon soe much ground.' — Gough's History of Myddle,
p. 175.
* With whinnes or with furzes thy houell renew,
for turfe or for sedge, for to bake and to brew : For charcole and sea cole, as also for
thacke, for tallwood and billet, as
yeerlie ye lacke.' TusSER, Fine
Hundred Pointes ofQood Hushandrie [June],
• Turfe f of flagge, swarde of J>e eT)>e, Cespes. ** Turfe of the
fenne, Tourhe de terre, Turfe flagge
sworde, Tourbe,^ — Palso. ** A Turfe,
cespeSy gleba, A Turfe graite, turbarium.^* — Cath. Ano. The dis- tinction above intended, seems to be
retained in East Anglian dialect^
according to Forby, who gives the following explanation ; — ** Turf,
«• peat ; fiiel du^ from boggy ground.
The dictionaries interpret the word as
meaning only me surface of the ground pared o£E. These we call flags, and they are cut from dry
heaths as well as from bogs. The
substance of the soil below these is turf. Every separate portion is a turfy and the plural is turves^ which
is used by Chaucer" lC T,, 1.
10109]. In Somerset likewise, peat cut into fuel is called turf, and turveSy according to Jennings' Glossary.' —
Prompt. Parv, and Notes,
' A.Sax. turf; O.Icel. torfa; O. EL Germ, zurha, turf.' — Strat. See Blaok-Hullock, also Whixall-liibles,
and Mom.
TUKMIT, sh. a turnip. Com.
• TurmitSy turnips. Lane' — Peqge.
TUBMIT-LANTEBN [Ian-tun and Ion-tun], ek a lantern made by scooping out the inside of a turnip, then
carving on the outside a rude
representation of the human mce, and placing a lighted candle within it. Com. The effect of a lantern of
tms kind is often hideous in the
extreme. 'Jack's a dab-'ond at m&kin' a turmit-lontun ; 'e frittened the folks comin' from the
daincin' the tother night out o' thar
senses.'
TJTBJS, sh. a dizziness to which sheep are subject, — ' that ship's got the turn' — ^Wellington. Cf. Old.
TIJBir-AOAIH-OENTLEMAir, sh. Lilium Martagon, Turk's cap lily. — Clxjn; Bmdgnobth.
TVBHEL, sh. a large, oval tub used in brewing, salting, &c. — a * cooler.' — Newport; Whitchitbch;
Et.lesmere.
• Salting tumeV — Auctioneer's Catalogue (Forton Hall, Newport), 1875. C^ Kneading-tumel.
TJTBS THE BAIH, pkr. to keep the rain off; to throw off the wet. — PuLVBRBATCH ; Nbwpoet. Qy. com. *
'Ere, tak' this shawl, if 11 turn the
rain if theer comes on a wower, an' it 66nna be much to carry, anyways.'
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TUSH f tosh], (1) «&. a boar's task.— Pultbbbatch ; Wsm . ' '£ wnz as fom a feUow as ever yo' sid'n, 56th two
long tith jest like a bwiu^s
' . . . thou told'st me thou wonldst hunt the boar. O, be adyised ! thou knoVst not what it
is With javelin's point a churlish
swine to gore, Whose tushes never
sheathed he whetteth still, like to a
mortal butcher bent to kilL'
Shaxespeabe, Venus and Adonis, L 617.
* Tosche, longe tothe, Cdomellusy culmus. In Norfolk Tosh signifies, according to Porby, a tusk, a long curved
tooth.' — Prompt, Parv, and Notes.
< A.Sax. tusCf tux; O.Fris. tusky tusk (tushy — Strat.
(2) v. a. to drag, or shove along, as of aiwthing too big or heavy to be lifted and carriecL — Pulveebatch, ^ '
Can yo' carry them fiEt^ts to the
*56d-pil P ' * I dunna know, but if I canna carry 'em, be'appen I can tush em alung.'
TITSSOCK, sb, a clump of coarse grass. Com. Tu880cky4and is land that has very many such clumps on it
Of. Sniggle-bogs.
TUT-BALL, tffe., o6».? a game at hand-ball, chiefly played by girls. — Newport, Shiffnal,
* TutSy a term at the old game of stool-ball.' — Clarke's Fhrcueologia PuerUiSf 8vo. Lond. 1655, p. 141, in Hal.,
ed. 1855.
See Bk. II., Folklore, &c., ' Ghimes.'
TUTTT, adj. neat; snug, — 'a tutty bonnet.' — Wem; Ellbsmsrb. Cf . Oooty.
TWAKL [twaar'-ll ». n. to wrangle, — * dunna twarl yo' two.' —
PULVERBATCH ; WORTHEIT.
TWABLT, adj. peevish ; cross. Qy. com. * Wether it's the child's tith, or whether *e's gwein to sicken o'
the maisles — ^'e's bin that twarl^
all day, I canna get 'im out o' 'and a bit.' Mr. Halliwell gives
Tunsrhf as a Cheshire word, with the same
signification.
TWEAK [twai'k and twee'k], (1) sb. a sharp, severe attack of illness — * a pinch.' — Pulverbatoh ; Wem, * Poor
66man ! 'er hanna got o'er that las'
bout o' sickness — it wuz a very 'eavy tiveak.^
Bailey — ed. 1782 — gives *A Tweak [of zwicken, Tout, to pinch]. Perplexity, Trouble, Vexation.'
* Low-German twikken, to pluck.' — Bremen Worterbuch.
(2) V. a, to squeeze ; to press. — ^Pulverbatoh ; Oswestry. ' I canna get any more i' the ampot, Naint.' *
To' mun twaik it down, it use't to
'oud 'afe a strike, an' mus' now.' Cf. dueak.
TWEEK-HOLE, sb, the ventilating passage of a bkst-f omaoe. — Colliery ; M. T.
* Fr. tuyere, a blast-pipe ; O.Fr. tuyel, a shaft, pipe, flue.' — Pick.
TWELFI, twelfth. — Shrbwsburt ; Pulvbrbatch. Qy. com.
* The tud/t day, sal stemes falle.'
Homilies in Verse (a.d. 1330, ctrca). Speeim,
Early Eng., viii. a. 1. 137.
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* A.8ax. twelfta, twelfth.'— Steat.
See Grammar Outlines {adjedivea of wu/meraiion)^ p. zlyi.
TWnfK, ah, the Chaffinch. — Bridgnorth.
* To twinh^ to twitter : —
As a swallow in the air doth sing.
With no continued song, but pausing still, Ttvinks out her scattered notes in accents
shrill.
Chapman, Odyss. xxi. Twink, a
chaffinch, from his twittering song. ' — ^Wbdq.
Cf. Gliink-ohink, Pine-flnch, and Spink.
TWJJiS, sb. an agricultural implement for breaking the clods and uprooting the weeds of ploughed land,
preparatory to the harrows going on.
Com. Twins naye two rows of deep, curved, ftoad teeth — a blacksmith said, * the tines wun
duck-futted.' The implement has no
wheels or guides of any kind, and in this respect differs from the modem ' cultiyator ' ; it is either single
or double, fmd in the latter case is
spoken of as ' a pair of tvnnSj' the seyeral parts being coupled together : its chief work being-~to use an
Early English term— to twin, i. e.
separate, the weeds from the soil, the name of twins has been aptly giyen to it.
* Twinnen, twin ; dividere/ — Strat.
Mr. Skeat says, ' From the root two, A.S. twd ; compare Eng. he- tweenJ — Qlossarial Index to Man of Lawts
TaU, p. 265.
TWINTER, V. a. to shrivel, — Pulvbrbatch ; Ellesmbre. (1) 'It's likely to be a sharp fros' to-night — I'm
afeard it'll tvnnter the tato* tops.
(2) ' Yo'n 'ad the oven too sharp, an* if s whad I call spilin' good mate to twinter it up like that.'
TWINTEBED, pan, adj. shrivelled ; shrunk.— /ftirf. * They tellen me as the Squire's e^wim sich a little
twintered up owd mon, an' 'e wuz used
to be a right brocky fellow.' See Brocky.
TWISTITIED, adj, entangled; involved, as of affairs,— * 'E's left eyerythin' sadly twistified.* A coined
word. — Much Wenlock.
TWITTEK, (l) v,n.tohe nervous and affected in address. — Pulvbr- batch. ' I canna bar to 'ear that odman
talk, 'er does so mince an' tivitter —
^hke as if 'er couldna open 'er mouth.'
^2) sb, a state of nervous agitation, — PuLyzRBATOH. * Theer wuz talk o' the Fenians comin' las' night, an*
it pftt eyerybody i' the town o' the
twitter an' tremble.' 8^ Twitter in Wedo.
TWIX, prep, betwixt; between. — Pulvbrbatch. 'I think i* my 'eart, twix one thing an' another, yo'n
driye me kyimet.' < A.Sax. twix ;
O.Sax. tuisc, twix.' — Strat. See Betwix.
TWIZE [twei'z], (ido, twice, — Hwize one's two.' — Shrewsburt; Pulvbrbatch ; Church Strbtton. Qy. com.
* ** Sire, a seloou|i si^t it is * of \n» semli best ; Loo, how loueli it a-louted ' lowe to ys
twines, It bi-tokenes sum-what treuli
• god tume it to gode ! " '
William of Paleme, 1. 3721.
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Compare the M. E. tun/es — found in Chaucer and other writers of that period — which is formed from. A.S.
twyy double, with adyorbial suffix
-es. See Twice in Qrammar Outlines {adverbs of timey
TWO-BO WED-CHAIB [boa-d chee-hV], sb. a wooden arm-chair, of the kind often seen in old-fashioned
farm-house parlours and kitchens,
haying a low back, which, combining with the botrs, or arms, forms a commodious, half-circular rest for the
person. — Pulverbatch. * The MaLster
wuz sittin' in 'is two-bowed-cheert smokin' 'is pipe/
TWO-DOUBLE, (1) adj. twofold; double. Com. This redupli- cative term is applied to anything that is
double, or that can be made so by
folding. (1) A certain person was directed at Clunbury, to go up the village * tell * he came to *
two-double doors,* i. e. double, or
folding-doors. (2) * I never wuz out in sich coud winde — I'd a
thick jacket an' cloak, an' a shawl
two-double, an' it was like nuthin'.' See
Double -couple.
(2) adj. bent, and bowed down in figure, as from the decrepitude of age, or from rheumatic affection,
&c. Com. * Poor owd Mattha
[Matthew] 'uffer I 'e's aumust in 'is two-double — it's a pity to see
'im gwein to work.'
TWO-FACED, adj. double-faced ; insincere. Com. ' If yo* wanten to know a 'ollow, two-faced fellow, yo' can
see one in Turn any day.'
TWO-FACES-UNDEB-THE-Sinf, same as Three-faces-nnder-a-
hOOd, q. v.— WORTHEN.
TWO-THBEE [tuth-r'i'], two or three; a considerable number or quantity, — *a good tuthree;' *a tidy
tuthree.* Com. See iub voce Few in
G-rcunmar Outlines {adjectives of numeration).
TWO-TWIKS. See sub voce Donble-couple.
UNBEKNOWNST, adv. unknown— without anybody's knowledge. — Wem. *Wen the time fur fiittin' come, I
just shifted my things at the
edge-o'-neet, an' got out o' the 'ouse unbeknoumst,* C£ TJn- knownst.
XJNBETHOTOHT, part, pant, remembered ; called back to mind : used with a pronoun, reflexively, for the
most part. 'I should a done that wrung
if I 'adna jest unbethought me in time.' — ^Whit- OHUBCH; Ellesmere, Cheshire Border. An
imported word seem- ingly.
' and vnbethought * him of a while,
how he might that wilde bore beguile.'
Sir Lionellj 1. 86. Percy Folio MS., voL i, p. 76, ed. Hales and Eurnivall.
* * The word still exists in Lancashire .... But originally the im was um, A.S. umft, ymb, about. A.S.
unbe^oht, is unthought, incon-
siderate ; while ymbj^encan is to think about' — ^Note by m-r^
Fttbiti- VALL. — Ibid,
Ash has ' XJnbethink, XJnbethinken (v. t. a local tvord), To bethink.'
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mOADT, adj. awkward ; inconyenient. — Ludlow ; Bridgnorth ; Newport.
* Therof the pepul wold be fayne, Fore
to cum Home a^ayne, That hath goon
gatis ungayney
for defaute of ly^t.' John Attdelay's
PaetMy p. 14.
See Oain (1) and (2), also Ongain (1).
UIIUUMAH. See Onhmnan.
mrEED, TTETKET, (1) adj, dreary; lonely.— Cleb Hills. *W'y dunna yo* stort ? * * I shall wait till the
moon's up, fur the road*s nation
unhet.^
' I had not so much as a dog with me, and the place was very unhid and lonesome, and the rolling clouds
very desolate.* — 'Si. T). Blackmore,
Lorna Doone, A Eomance of Exmoor, p. 78, ed. 1878.
(2) adj. awkward. — CoRVE Dale. M.E. un-y not; undkidy known, with similar sense to A.S. uncu^y uncouth.
UJIJLLND, (1) adj. ungenial ; cold ; cloddy : said of soil. — Pulver- batch; Glee Hills; Bridgnorth; Wellington.
* Theer's a power o' unkind, clayey
sile on that farm, nod fit fur anythin* but Scats.' See Kind (2).
(2) unthriving: said of animals. — ^Wellington. See Kind (2). Of. Untoertly, below.
UITKHOWNST, same as VnbeknownBt, q. v. — Bridgnorth ; Ellbs-
MERE.
UVLVCKT. See Onlncky.
Mr. Nares says that * an unlucky boy, an unlucky trick [t. e. mis- chievous] would formerly have been called
unhappy,*
*La/eu Go thy ways: let my horses be well looked to,
without any tricks.
' Clown, if I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shcdl be jades' tricks
* Lafeu. A shrewd knave and an unhappy,
* Count, So he is. My lord that's gone made himself much sport out of him. , . .'—AlVs Well that End^
Well, IV. v. 66.
UAITIDT. See Ontidy.
* Witpi] his vntydy tales • he tened ful ofte
Conscience and ms compaignye * of holicherche |ie techeres.'
Piers PL, Text B., pasa xx. 1. 118.
XTHTOERTLY, adj, unthriving; unpromising. — Pulverbatch ; Bridgnorth. Qy. com. ' I never thought it
55d come to much, it looked unioerUy
from the first.' See Tofirtly.
VPHOTID, V, a and v, n, to warrant. Ck>m. ' To' 6ddna see a prettier nor more useful tit twix 'ere an'
Lunnon, I'll up^oud it.'
VPKEGOED, part, adj, upset. — Wbm. * They fund the barrel caved o'er, an' all the drink upkegged.*
VPSIOHT, eb, a chimney-sweep. — Bridgnorth ; Wellington. The
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marriage of one Joeepli Oorbett with Maory Price is recorded in the Begister of Christ Church, Wellington
(Salop), Oct. 17, 1859, and his ' Bank
or Profession * described therein as * Upright.^ A witness to the marriage was a certain Thomas Adams.
On March 3rd, 1880, a newspaper-hawker at Wellington — ^brother to a sweep — ^was asked if he knew any
recent instance of the nse of the term
upright^ as meaning a chimney-sweep ? He replied, ' Yes, not lon^ ago, Ven I went with my brother to
put up the bands, *e called 'imself **
Thomas Adams, upright'^ ' Oddly enough, it turned out that this same Thomas Adams was the
very person who had witnessed the
marriage, in 1859, of Joseph Corbett, * uprighV
Up-tortght would perhaps be a more intelligent spelling of this curious term, than that adopted in the
Begister, and giyen above, thus : upf
a chimney, wright^ i. e. workman. Before the Act was passed which made it illeeal to do so, a
sweep would actually go ii^ a chimney,
and, as a wright^ or workman, follow his calling tnerein. Of. Whed'wright, Ship^wrxght^ Playwright,
VP8ED0WV [up'si'doon], adv. upside down. — Shrewsbury ; PuLYB&BATCH. ' Jack Price *as took to
runnin' a 'bus, but 'ell mak nuthin'
out — 'eH never turn the world upBedown,^ 'No, Vs more like to turn the V^Ls down-side-up.'
Upaedoum is found in tiie Wycliffite Version — AJ). 1388 — *and he tumede vpsedoun the bordis of chaungeris,
and the chayeris of men that solden
culueris.' — Matt, xxi 12.
Upeodoum — another form of the word — ^is common in early writers, as, for example —
' Antecry^st cam |»anne ' and al |>e oroppe of treuthe Tomed itvpao doune, . . .'
Piers PL, Text B., pass. xx. L 53.
* For the lauys of this lond ben lad a wrong way, Both temperall and spiritual I tel 30U
treuly,
even up-so-douneJ*
John Attdblat's Poenu, p. 20.
The Promptorium Parvulorum gives both spellings, — ' Vp&edoume (vp 80 doun^ S.). Everstu, mbvernu,
transveraus,'
* Upsidedown, For up-ao-down, up what was down.' — ^Wbdo.
UPSIDES, adj, even. Com. "E's al'ays cuttin' at me about summat, but I'll be upaidea doth 'im one o'
these first days.'
UllCHIlf , sb, Erindceua Europceus, the Hedgehog. Com.
' For some like Snailes, some did like spyders shew, And some like ugly Urchina thick and short'
Spenser, F. Q., Bk. U. c xi. st xiiL
See Tempeat, L ii. 326.
* Vrch&ne, beest. ErinaciuBy erieiua, " An Vrohone, eridua^ «re7iac»i«."— Cath. Ano. ** Urchone,
Jien'saon. Irohen, a lytell beest full
of prickes, Aeri>o»."--PALSO. In Italian, ** Bicdo, an vrohin or hed^hog."—FLORio.'— Prompt Parv. and
Notea,
* Eridua , , . animal spinis coopertum quod exindd dicitur nomi- natim eo qu6d subtegit se quando spinis
suis olauditor, quibus
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imdiqne protectus est contra insidius a hedgehog.* — Dtc^.
Etyifn. Lai.
* O.Fr. Hertcon, erigon, ire^on, h^risson ; de ericiua , . itaL riocio, esp. erizo.* — Bub.
Of. Hodden.
UTiCKy sb, Pratincola rubetra, the Whincbat. — Shrewsburt ; Welltnoton; Newport. The note of this bird,
' U-iicky tick, tick,* has given rise
to its local appellation. C£ Haytick.
TTTVER [uvur*], adj\ upper ; higher in place or position, — ' who live* i' the uvuer 'ouse now ? * — ^Pulvbrbatch ;
Worthbn ; Oswestry. 'A. Sax. u/era;
O.H.Genn. obero, uver {ntperiory -^trat.
TTWER-LIP, sb, the upper lip. — Pulverbatch. 'Mother's got a despert bad coud, an* 'er uwer-lip^B
swelled as big as two.* Oompare M.£.
over-lip —
' Hire overlippe wypede sche so dene,
That in hire cuppe was no f erthing sene Of greece, whan sche dronken ha&e hire
draughte.'
Chaugbr, The Prologue, L 133, ed. Morris.
< the overe lippe ant the nethere/ is given as the gloss of * La baa levere et la levere snseyne,' in jTA*
Treatise of Walter de Bihleeworth,
ziii. cent., in Wr. yocabs., vol. i. p. 146.
UYVEBM08T, adj, uppermost. — Pctlvbrbatoh; Ludlow. *Mind 'ow yo' put'n them things i' the drawer,
an' keep the Maister's collars
uwermoet,^
* With the ovemast lofe hit [the saltcellar] shaUe be set' — Bdke of Curtasaye, p. 322.
See Over m Dr. Morris's Historical English Accidence, p. 110. A.S. ufe-mest, yfe-rnest, highest ;
uppermost.
VAILS, sb, pL^ obsols. gifts of money to servants. — Shrewsburt; PxTiiVERBATCH ; Bridonorth. * They dunna
gie very big wages, but theer's a diel
o' company kep', an' the vails maken up — I got above a pound at tne Chris'mas bout' [1840].
A Clergyman who holds a living not very remote from Shrewsbury, relates that, upon a certain occasion when
he had left home to visit a friend,
the Severn rose so rapidly during his absence, that he had to be driven back in his friend's carriage.
The coachman, finding the usual road
impassable, was obliged to make a considerable dHour, and in doing so had to remove some hurdles
to enable the carriage to pass along ;
arrived at their destination, the Clergyman, as a recom- pense to the servant-man for the trouble he
had had, offered him some money, but
he refused it, saying, * No, thank you, Sir ; we are not allowed to take vaiU,* This was in
1837.
' Cooke Havward was hired with Mr. Pierpoint to bee his Cooke and caterer; his wages was £12 per annum,
and his veiUs oonaider- able.'—
Gk)UQH'8 History of Myddle, p. 182.
' Sept., 1766. Vails were abolii^ed in Shropshire by a resolution passed at the Lifirmary meeting. The grand
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assizes had passed a similar resolution just before. It needs hardly be said that this was a fee expected by a
gentleman's servants from every guest
that dined at their master's table ; a custom now pre- served only at the official dinners given
by the judges of assize upon the
circuit.' — Owen and Blakewat's History of Shrewsbury, vol i. p. 683.
VaiU is a contraction of avails, where avail is a substantive from the verb avail, meaning profit, SLdvantage.
Shakespeare has avat^ in this sense ;
see AlVs Well that Ends Well, III. L 22.
TAHP, sh, a prop to support the shaft of a cart when the horse is taken out ; also to serve as a rest for a
temporary bench, or a table made of
loose planks. Such a bench or table would have a vamp at each end. It is a rude contrivance,
consisting simply of a three- forked
branch of a tree, cut to the requisite length and inverted.— CoRVB Dale. Cf. Nave.
VABJI8, sb., var. pr, verjuice; the juice of crabs. ConL 'This fresh-drink's gwun as sour as vargis, an'
it hanna bin brewed no time,' «*. e.
only a short time.
' Be sure of vergis (a gallond at least)
so good for the Kitchen, so needfuU for beast^ It helpeth thy cattel, so feeble and
faint, if tmiely such cattle with it
thou acquaint'
TussEB, Fine Hundred PoinUs of Oood Hushandrie [October].
Fr. vert, green, and/t««, juice. See Crab-vaijis.
VAST, sh, a great quantity, — *a vast of timber.* — Corvb Dale.
VEERIK08, same as Feeri2ig8, q. v. — Cleb Hills.
VEIL [vai'l], sb, the adipose membrane, or caul, of a pig's intestines. — Sblrewsbtjrt ; Pxjlveebatoh ; Woethbn.
Qy. com. See tub voce Faggits.
VESSEL-MAID, same as Dairy-maid, q. v. — Pulverbatch.
VEX, V, n.,pec. to grieve ; to lament. — Shrewsbury ; Clun ; Brido- KORTH. * Poor Will Speake's vexin' sadly,
*is wife's djed o' the fidver, an' lef
'im 55th three or four little childem.'
VTELOIlf-HOirEY, sb. the honey produced from the hive of a second swarm from the parent-stock. —
^Pulverbatch. Qy. com. ' Mother, whad
did Mrs. Gilpin mane P — 'er said as Baby wuz to '&ve the powder in virgin^* oney.* * Well, it's
'oney from the oast, an' it's quite
Vite, an' as clier as clier.' See Cast (7).
VntOIN-HABTS-COWSLIP, sb, Ptdmonaria officinalis, common Lungwort (garden plant). — Church Strbtton,
Longnor.
VIKOIV-HAKTS-HONETSVCELE, same as above.— Clun ; Elles- mere. a Welshampton woman explained, that the
local name given to this plant arose
&x>m a legend of the Virgin-Mother's rn\}\c having been dropped upon it— * the laves,* she
said, 'han bin spotted ever eence.'
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VntOnrET-OABLAirBS, sb, pi cliaplets of white paper-floweis, with a p&ir, sometimes more than one pair,
of gauntlet-shaded gloves — ^Ukewise
of paper — suspended from them ; they were carried at young maidens' funerals, and were
afterwards hung up in the Church, 'as
mementoes of the departed. Virgint^ "garlands still [1880] exist ; as, for instance, at Minsterley,
where there are several, the most
recent of them being of the date, 1764. See Bk. IL, FolJdore, &c., 'Customs' (deaihs),
TITTLE [vit'l], sb, provisions; victuals. — Graven Arms; Clun. ' Yo'n brought some vitUe fur we, Miss
Nellie,* said Martha Cad- wallader, to
a certain young lady, as^ followed by a basket-bearer, she approached the group of hay-makers, of
whom Martha was one [1873].
' And, soth to sayn, vitaiUe gret plentee
They han hir yeuen .......'
Chauobb, B. 443 (Six-text ed.), Skeat.
' Bobin promised me
A* my winter vittle ; Eient b^et he
had but three Goose feathers and a
whittle.'
BOBBRT BxTBirs, Poef/M^ p. 248, L 27.
*O.Pr. vitailhy de [Lai] victwdia; nourriture, vivres, aliments, provisions dee choses n^cessaires k la
vie.* — Bxtb. 0£ Pittle.
VOID, adj, unoccupied ; vacant, — a preservation of the old sense of the term. — ^Pultebbatoh. * The country's
in a despert state, theer's nine or
ten farms to let, an' they tellen me theer's rows an' rows o' 'onsen void i' the town' [1880].
' Let their habitation be voidy and no man to dwell in their tents.' — Pb. Ixxx. 26.
* Voyde, or vacaunt. Va4Mn».^ — Prompt, Parv,
*O.Pr. Vuitf vuide, void, voide; vide . . .' — Bue.
WADDIOOK [wod'i'uk and wodyuk], eb, a good big piece, — * 'Er cut me a waddiock o* pork-pie.' Com.
WADOE [waaj'], «6., var. pr, a thick slice, or lump = wedge, — ' a wadge o* cake.' — CoBVE Dale.
WADS [wod'z], sb, pi. the small heaps in which vetches or pease are left on the ground when cut — Cleb
Hills ; Beibonobth.
WAGH3K>VEES' WOBDS TO HOBSES. The Houyhnhum dialect has its varieties in common with the
general dialect. But as the latter is
* improved ' away by the National Schoolmaster, so the former is corrupted by the nomadic Navvy. ' Them
navvies talken to thar 'orses quite
different to whad we dun, an' ours bin spllte doth 'earin' 'em as they gdn up an' down the line,* so
said an old wagoner in the
neighbourhood of Shrewsbury. The following are specimens of the old Horse-Tongue still [1874] in use in
their respective localities. Suppose a
team of three horses, Xjeader, Pin-horse, and Shafter ; the locaUty, —
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(1) Pitlverbatoh; or Cbayen Abms, Staketay. The waegoner, standing to the left of his horses, would
address them thus — ^Leader :
* Commoag * [kiimmoa'g], come near ; * Gee ' [jee*], go from me ; *J\gg\n* Hig-gi'n], turn short back. The
Pin-horse and Shafter alike: *
ffaw-woop* [au'woo'p] — ^with a rise of pitch on the latter part of the vowel — come towards ; * Heit '
[a'*yt], go from me. The whole team :
* Woo * [wuo*], stop.
(2) Shrewsbiiby, Eanwood. He would use these terms, to the Leader: ^ Come n*arun* [kilkmnaar'-rVn],
come near; * Chee-Tiaw^ fchee'au'], go
from me; ' Ckiggin-hack* [chig-gi'n baak], turn short back. To tne Pin-horse and Shafter : * Haw '
[au'], come towards ;
* Heit * [aeytt*], go from me. To the whole team : * Woo ' [wfko*], stop.
(3) Ellesmere, WeUhampton. Here the waggoner would say to the Leader: 'Come narro* [kiIlmnaar'T*oen,
come near; * Gee^ho* pee'oa], go from
me ; * Gee-ho-back* [jee'oa* baa'k], turn short back. To the Hn-horse and Shafter : * Haw '
[au*], come towards ; * Heet *
feett'], go from me. To the whole team: * Gee-off' [jee'oa'fln,
go straight on ; * CoTne netJier meggen
woo-wo-op ' [kiim naedh'dnuV maeg'gi*n
wii'wii'' uj'p], come on one side, and go slowly; * TFo-o' [woa], — the pronunciation of this word is
equal to two long quantitieB with a
gradual lowering of pitch — stop. Heit is found in Ohauoer : —
' The carter smote, and cried as he were wood, Heit scot, heit brok, what spare ye for the
stones.*
a T., 1. 7126. See Call- words to
Animals.
WAIDY, WEADY, WEEDY [wai-di', wee-h'di', wee-di'], adj. This term which obtains commonly throughout
Salop, in one or other of the forms
here given, is widely applied; it is understood to mean exceeding expectation, as regards length,
(quantity, durability ; also, tedious,
tiresome to get through, as of a piece of work, &c. — almost anything may be waidy^ from a length of
road, to a solid, ' cut and come again
' piece of meat. (1) *■ Yo n find it a mighty waidy road, if yo' bin thinkm* o* walkin' from Soseb'ry to
Stretton, though it dunna look so
fare.' (2) * These lung sems bin despert waidy sewm' — ^it inna like summat as yo' can get on ooth.^ (3)
^Thafs a weddy bit o' bif— it 'ouds
out well, and theer's bin a power o' cuttin' at it.'
* A Wheady Mihy a Mile beyond Expectation, a tedious one. ShropeJ* —Bailey, ed. 1782.
See Onweedy.
WAIN-HTTS, sb, a shelter-house in farm-buildings for wagons and carts when not in use. — Pulveera.tch. Qy.
com. * Tell the waggoner to put the
drill inside the wain-usy nod to get wet.' The old word wain^ preserved in this composite form,
seems to be no longer used for the
waggon itself. A.S. wosgn; a wain or wag^n, and hus; a house. See Jack-and-his-Wain, and
The-Wain-and-Horsea. See alao Hiis.
WAIHY, WANTY [wai-ni', wonti*], adj, irregular in shape and
Sroportion, thus — if a piece of wood presumably three inches in iameter were required to be squared to two
inches, and it would not square
throughout, that would be wainy, or vxtivty, — Glun. QL Cater-comelled.
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WAKES, sb, a country-parish festival — ^the Churches Saint's Dedica- tion-Day Feast, originally, which was
preceded by a Vigil = watch ^ wake.
Com.
* The Wake-day is the day on which the Parish Church was dedi- cated, called So, because the Night beforf^
it they were used to watch till
Morning in the Church, and feasted all the next day/ — ELilican's Tuuer Bedtvivu$, ed. 1710.
A.S. wacan ; Swed. vaka : Moeso-Qoth. wakan ; to watch. See Bk. n., Folklore, &c., « Wakes.'
WALET-OALET [wai-li' gaiii'l (1) a<i/. unsteady; tottering.— WoRTHEN; PuLYERBATOH. tvaley-galev is
sometimes used sub- stantively, as one
would say, * all of a shake/ — ' Come W childem £rom the stack, the lather's all of a
waley-galey — it'll be down on some o'
yo','
(2) sh, the game of see-saw, in which children, sitting or standing at each end of a plank — ^balanced on a
prop — ^move altematelyup- wards and
downwards. — Ibid, * W'eer bm tne lads gwim ? * * They bin playin* waley-galey i* the stack-yard.*
Compare * Wawyn\ or waueryn, yn a myry totyr. Oscillo^, tjq. v. Myry tottyr, chylderis game. Totyr, or myry
tcftyr . . , OscUlum, — Cath. **
Oscillum, genus ludi, cum funis suspenditur a trabe in quo pueri et puelle sedentes impelluntur hue et
illuc, — a totoure." — Med.
&R. ** Tytter- totter, a play for childre, halenchoeree.*^ —
Palso. Forby
fives Titter-cum-totter, in Norfolk dialect, to ride on the ends of a alanced plank.' — Prompt Paru, and Notes^
pp. 518, 498.
WALLED [wauid], part adj. boiled. — Pclverbatch. 'Them cheese-cloths stinken o' soap enough to
pisen anybody, I toud yo' to wesh 'em
i' the walled w'ey — now dunna let me 'ive to tell yo' the same thing agen.'
Bay, in his * North CourUry Words,* has * Walling, f . e. Boyling, it is now in frequent Use among the
S^t-boilers at Northwychy Nampt- wych,
&c.'
* A. Sax. weaXlan; O.Saz., O.H.(Jerm. wallan, wall (htUlire, ferverey — Strat.
See Wallop (1), below.
WALL-EYE, (1) sb, an eye, of which the iris is either streaked or parti-coloured, or else of a totally
different hue to the fellow-eye, and
not in harmony with the general complexion or colour. — PuLVERBATCH; MucH WEJnx)CK; WELLmoTON. Qy.
com. Eyes of this kind are perfectly
sound as regards vision; they are met
with in the human subject, in horses, dogs, cats, &c., and are
pro- bably the same as the * whally
eies * of which Spenser speaks : —
' . . .a bearded Gote, whose rugged heare.
And whally eies (the signe of gelosyl.
Was like the person seUe whom he did beare.'
F, Q.y Bk. Lc.iv.st. xxiv.
Mr. Nares, who discusses the term whally-eies at considerable length, rejects as erroneous the gloss *
streaked eyes ' given by earlier
commentators, and maintains that none other than eyes affected by the disease glaucoma (which imparts a
clouded appearance and greenish hue to
them) can be meant by it — * what are now called tvaU-eyes,* he
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B&yn. This hypotheedB is, however, untenable, a toaU-^e is not
piima- ril^r a diseased eye — ^in a
horse it has the iris, either partly, or wholly white, with perfect vision — ^but the term
is inyolyed in confusion, it has been
vaguely defined by some, wrongly by others, and loosely applied by many. The word is originally
Icel. vagleycpr, or corruptly
valdeygi^r, wall-eyed, said of a horse ; ut. with a beam in the
eye, from vagi, a beam ; also a
disease in the eya It is rightly given thus,
IJj. Skeat says, in ViOFirsaoN's Icelandic Dtctianary,
(2) sb, a human eye which shews an undue proportion of the white, the iris being out of the centre, and
inclined towards the outer comer —
^larger also than the fellow-eye in some casea — PuiiVBB- batgh; Oswestry. Qy. com. 'I Imowed that
chap as soon as ever I ketoht sight on
'is waU-eye.*
WALL-FLOWEB, sb, Hdianthua annuus, the Sun-flower. — ^Craven Asms; Ellbsics&b.
* Wall-flowers^ walUflowerSy growing up so high,
See Bk. IL, FoVdore, &a, < Games * ( WaU-flouierM). QL Oillofer.
WALLOP [wolTip], (1) V, n. to boil violently with a bubbling sound. — Shrewsbury ; Ellesmere. ' Do them tittoes
bile, Nanny ? ' said Mrs. Halea * They
dunna bile. Missis, fur they toaUopen,* was Nanny Windsor's reply.
' BouUler une onde, to boyle a while or but for one bubble^ or a wallop or two.' — OotCTave, in Way.
Jamieson gives ' To WM-upy v. n. To boil up,' also, ' To WaUop, V. n. To move quickly, with much agitation
of the body or dothea.* See Walled,
and Strat. sub voce,
(2) V. a. to flog. — Shrewsbury. Qy. com.
* If I had a donkey wot wouldn^t so.
Do you think Pd wallop him P Oh, no, no.'
Old Song.
WALIrPLIT, ah. the piece of timber which is placed on the top of a wall for the purpose of fastening
roof-rafters to, — ^the ' wall-plate.'
— Clun.
WALLWOBI, sh, 8ainMcu8 IPbulua, dwarf Elder.^MucH Wbnlock. ^Hec ebtda. A" a walle-wurte,' occurs
in a Ptdoriai Vocabulary^ XV. cent.,
in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 265. The
Promptorium Farvulorum gives ' WalworU^ herba EhulusJ
WAH [wan*], v, a, to seize ; to take firm hold of. — Pulverbatch. 'Now then, wan out o' that ship, an' oud
fast till I come up.' Spenser has wan
in the sense of ' took' : —
' Whylest there the varlet stood, he saw from fiarre An armed knight that towardes him fast ran
; He ran on foot, as if in lucklesse
warre His forlome steed from him the
victour toan.'
F. 0., Bk. n. a vi. st xli Compare
Lowland Scotch To win.
WANDLED [wan 'did], o^'., ohaA worn down with fatigue — 'dead
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beat.' — ^PuLYEBBATOH. < I've bin 'untin tuthree ohats toSits
yeatiii* the oveiiy an' whad 66th the
sticks an' the winde, I'm aumnst wancUed
damn.*
WASQUSQ fwaang'glin], adj, delicate; ailing; unthriving. — Nbwport. ' ^r's a poor little wanglirC
thing, I doubt they wanna rear 'er.'
Wangling is a weakened form of Wankle below.
WAHKLE [wang-kl], adj. feeble; tottering; unsteady.— Wbm.
< Forthi wil I schaw other thinges,
That er apert biseninges
Bitnize this wankvll world and se,
This werldes welth to do fle.'
Homilies in Verse (A.D. 1330, circa). Specim, Early Eng., h. yiii. 1. 97.
Bay gives * Wankle^ limber, flaccid, ticklish, fickle, wavering,' as a * North Country Word.*
'A.Sax., O.Sax. waned; O.H.Genn. wanchaler, wankle {imta" W/m).'— Strat.
WAirr. See dSnt.
WAITTY (1). See Wainy.
(2) [waanii* and wonii'], sh. a short rope used in binding loads, as of hay, Ac, on waggons or carts. —
^Atcham; Pulverbatoh ; Wellikoton;
Newport. The country-folk understand this term as meanine one-tie, L e. a rope which goes
once round the load : but the fact
tiiat the rope is used girthwise, points to the conclusion, that the word is the same, applied to a different
usage, as that which Tusser employs,
when he speaks of * a i>anel and wantey* where, the sense being that of a girth of some kind to bind
a burden on a horse's back, it is
rightly explained * i«om&-<ie, a belly-buid,' in the Qlo$$ary, ed. E. D. 8.
WAPPLE, WOBBLE, WOPPLE [wap 1], Pulvbrbatgh ; Ellbsmerb. [wob'l], CiiEE HnjJ^. [wop'l], Wortuen, a
gummy secretion in the comer of the
eye. ' Yo' bmna-d-'afe weshed, the wapples bin iUl i' the cornels o' yore eyes.'
WAPSE8 [wop'siz], sh. pi. wasps. — Newport. 'What are you about there, you fellows ? ' ' We'n tekkin
waps/ei neesens, Sir.'
<A.S. wfjepa; Lat vetpa; O.H.(}erm. wafea, wefea^ yrssip\wap»y — Strat.
WAB [waa'r*], adj. aware; con8ciou& — Pulverbatoh. *Comin' down ihe Brummy-bonk, I 'eard summat tussle
i' the 'ed^ so I went toert it, an'
wuz war on a great ar [hare] in a grin.' *W*y didstna thee bring it P ' 'I dar-say ! — dun W want
me to be send to the clump o' bricks
[the gaol] i' Soseb'ry r '
* l^an jede a grom of greoe * in i^e gardyn to pleie, to bi-hold ^ estres * & )>e herberes
so faire, &, or he wiste, he was
uxir * of ^ white beres, ^ went a-wai
a wallop - as M 'vod semed.'
WiUiam o/Faleme, L 1769.
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' I lokede on i^e luft half * as >e ladi me tauhte ; lienne was I war of a wommon * wonderliche
dolled.'
Piers PI, Text A., pass. iL L 8.
A.S. wcw; O.N. var; having notioe of, aware.
WABCH [waa-r'ch], v. n. to throb painfully. — Pulvbrbatch ; Wobthen; Nkwpobt. ^Theei^l be some change
i* the weather, for my com warches
despertly/
***Therfore be my rede," sayd syr Luoan, "it is beete that wo brynge you to somme towne.'*^ "I wolde
it were soo," s^d the kyng.
"But I may not stonde, myn hede werchea soo, ' — Sm Thomas Malory (a.d. 1469), Le Morte
Darihur. Specim. Eng» Lit., viiL V. 1.
1.
A.S. wcBrCf pain ; suffering.
WASCHnrO, part. adj. throbbing. — ^Pulvbrbatch. * It inna so much of a pain, as a smartin', ivarchin*
feel.'
WAKE [waaV], sb. a weir.— Pulvbrbatch. Qy. com. 'It's a good garden an* a tidy 'ouse, but I
shouldna like to live so clos' to the
war'.^
Mr. Hartshome quotes a passaffe from a Treatise on Fly-Fishing— ed. Worcester, 1748, p. 14--by Richard
Bowlker, a native of Ludlow or its
immediate neighbourhood, where the author, speaking oftrout, says, • A little before they spawn, they
make up the river towards the
Spring-head, and to admiration will get through Mills, Wares, and Flood-gates.'— iSaZopia Antiqu<i, p.
610.
A.S. wer, a weir.
WABE-OOODS [waa-r'], sb. pi goods for sale— a term applied, in contradistinction to * five stock,' to such
ferm-produce as cheese or tubs of
butter, when they are taken to the fair.— Pulvbrbatch. *Whad sorfn a far 'ad'n'ee las' wik?'
'Eight middlin', I ad a power o'
war^-goods piit by,' t. e. left on hand. Ck)mpare —
* Gk)od ware makes quick markets.'— Bay's Proverbs, p. 167.
* A.Sax. warn; O.Icel. vara; O.Du. ware, ware (menu).'— Strat.
WAE JOWT [waaV jout], phr. beware of a jolt— an expression proper to the harvest-field • it is called
out by the man at the head of the ' f
or'-'orse ' [first horse] to the man on the load, as a warning to hold fast while the waggon crosses a *
rean' or gutter.— Pxtlvbrbatch. Cf.
Hold yo'.
WASMSHIP, 8b. warmth. Com. 'The poor owd mon wants warmship an' comfort worse than physic'
WASEnra-STOCS:, WESHIHG-STOCK, sb., obs. a bench on which clothes were laid and beaten with a
kind of bat, instead of being, as now,
put into a tub and * dollied ' : it was something bke a butcher's block, but with two legs shorter
than the others, so tiiat it shed the
water off on the side remote from the operator.— CoRVB Dale ; Clee Hells ; Wem ; Ellbsmbrb. Qy.
com.
* The next morning Hopkin was found dead in Oatley Parke, haveing beene knocked on the head with the
foote of a washing stocke which stood
at Ellesmeare meare, which foot was found not
fiar from him.' — GtoUGH's History of Myddle, p. 31.
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It is said of a little man on a big horse that ' 'e looks like a frog on a weshirC'StockJ' See Bat (1), also Dolly
and Dolly-tub.
WAS8LE [wasil, v, a. to beat down; to knock about. — Pulver- BATCH. * I've bin for a bum o' 55d this
mornin' to yeat the oven, an' the
winde's farly wasiUd me down.' Compare Lowland Scotch war nil ; to wrestle, strive ; hence to
knock about. See Wazsle.
WASSLE-BOVOH, sh. a bough used for beating down, as of dew from grass or grain bordering a field-path.
— Ibid, *I mun get a wasale-boughy an'
waesU the je ow off the grass afore the child g^wuz through the craft, 'er'll be dagged above a
bit else/
WASSLE-EOOTSB [futid], adj\ splay-footed.— Shrbwsburt.
WASTSEL [wai'str'il], (1) «&. a spendthrift; an idle, untrustworthy fellow, — ^*a ne'er-do-weel.* Com. *Aye,
poor owd John's come to the work- 'us
at las' — ^'e's al'ays been the wastrel o' the family ever sence I knowed 'im.'
' ** It wasn't many wurds she said, — but wurds she said anew
To bring t'oald tinkler and her man tull what was weel ther due ; For lang i' Carol jail they laid, an* when
l^assize com on, TJudge let t'oald
waistrd lowce a^an, but hang't his whopeful son."' * Branthet Neuk Boggle,' in The Folk-Speech
of Cumberland^ by A, C. Gibson,
F.S.A., p. 70.
(2) eb. a worthless, unsound animal — ^WSM. ' I doubt that cowf 11 be nuthin' but a wastrd,^
(3) ab, a faulty piece of china, or such like ; an imperfect brick, &o.
: the term is applied to new thmgs
which are defective in some way when
they leave the manufacturers' hands. Com. * I bought it at the shop at Ironbiid^, w'eer they sell wastreU
; it's good Coalport chaney, on'y a
bit asiden.' A shop of the kind here spoken of, is sometimes called a waetrd^ahop,
^4) adj. imperfect ; unsound, — * a waslrd tay-pot ; * — * a wastrel bncL' Com.
WATCH [woch'], sh,, obaA minute beads, or particles of grease which appear on the surface of broth or
soup. — Shbewsbttby.
WATER [wai'tur*], common pronunciation — ^read thus below.
WATEB-SHVTTEir, WATEB-8HVTTLE [shutn], Atcham.
Sshaeti and shut'l], Pulve&batch, adj, made to shed wafer off by a iue slope, &c. given to the thatch :
said of stacks. * 'Ow did yore stack
come off, John, i' the thunder-shower ?^ * Well, as luck 'ad it, we'd'n jest topped up an' made it
waiter-ehettle afore it come on.' See
Shut (1) and (3).
WATEE-8PAE, sK Carbonate of Baryta, Witherite. — Pulvbrbatch, Snailbeach (Mines), Waier-spar when reduced
to powder is highly poisonous, and is
therefore much used for destroying rats and other vermin ; so deadly are its properties, that
it is said to ' pison three times o'er,*
thus : if a cat ate a rat killed by this agent, the cat would die, and if a dog ate the cat, the dog
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WATEB-SPABEOW, (1) tib. Emberiza tehosnidus, the Black- headed Banting. — Shbbwsbttby. Qy.
com. (2) same as Beed-tparrow (1) and
{2\ q. y. Qy. com.
WATTLE-AHS-DAB [wati], «6. and o^'., obsA close huidl^-work plastered with clay.— -!Pulyekbatoh.
WaiUe-^nd-dab cottages were constmcted
on this wise : standards were erected, between them twigs and branchlets were interwoven, and then
moistened clay was ' dabhed' upon
these ' wooden walls/ within and without, and smoothed on each side. Dwelling-plaoes of WattU-and-dah were
an improvement on the clod-hut, of
which latter, specimens may yet [1874] be seen on the Stiperstones and on Ponsert HiU. See
sub voce Outrack.
« c<
. . . grace," quod Piers - " je moten Ryue t3rmbre, And ordeyne (^at hous * ar 30 hennes
wende.*'
And grace gaue hym ^ crosse * with )>e croune of ^omes. That ciTst vpon caluarye * for mankynde on
pyned, And of his baptesme & blode
* )yat he bledde on Bode He made a
maner morter * & mercy it hi^te.
And ^re-with grace bigan ' to make a good foundement,^ And waUded it and waued it ' with his
peynes & his passiouu. And of al
holywrit . he made a rofe after, And
called |»at hous vnite * holicherdhe on englisahe.'
Pier$ PL, Text B., pass. zix. L 323.
Wattle-and'dab, or something like it, seems to be symbolized by Langland in this description of the house
built by Grace, witness the ' tymbre,^
the * ]>orne8,* the ' a maner nwrter,' for building materials, and the house itself * watteled * in course
of construction.
WAXJT [wau't], V, n. to totter,—' look 'ow it wauts.' — Wbm. WatU is the old word wait — to waver, to reel —
^with the I elided, just as Mut =
idlt.
* >ou v)dUre$ al in a weih * & wel y vnderstande whider ]>e balaunce bremliest ' biouwes
al-gate.'
WiUiam 0/ FaUms, L 947.
* 1589-90. This yeare and the 19^^ daye of June one John Broome the soon of Thomas Broome of Mynsterlev
comming to the towne w* a loade of
poales was sooddenly murtherid by the over walHnge of hys wayne w*m a myle of the towne of Salop.' —
Early Chronicles of Shrewsbury (Taylor
MS,), in Tranmctions of the Shropshire Archooo^ logical and Natural History Society.
Bay gives ' To Walt, To totter, or lean one way, to overthrow,* as a * North Country WordJ
See WaUrynge and Welwynge in Prompt, Parv, A.S. weaUan^ to reel; roU about. See L (2) in Grammar
Outlines (consonantB), Cf, Wout.
WATTTT, adj. unsteady ; tottering. — Atcham.
WAUVJS [wau'v], (1) V. a. to turn upside down for the purpose of covering : said of hollow things chiefly,
such as earthenware vessels, baskets,
or tubs; to cover over with the like. — Pulyerbatch : WoRTHEN ; OoBVE Dalb ; CusB Hills. ' Wauve
a wisket o*er Ihat 'en, if theer's
never-a coop— 'erll draggle them little chickens to 4jeth.' See example euh voce Xiver (3).
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Bay gives ' To whoave^ CJiesh,, to coyer or whelm over. We will not hill, hut whoave, Proy. Cnesh, Spoken of a
Pig or Fowl that they have overwhelmed
with some Vessel m Readiness to kill.'
* Dan. hvcelve, to ardi, vault, turn bottom upwards ; Sw. hwSlfwa, to roll, turn, change, vault; O.N. hve^fat
hval/a, to turn over, to vault'— Wkdo.
(2) $b, the covering of green sod — usually raised, or arched — over a grave. — Cobve Dalb. * Aye, Vs left us,
an* we'n pCit the wauve o' turf o'er
*im, poor owd mon.' A.S, hweal/a, a vault.
WAZZLE, same as Wassle, q. v. — Clee Hills. ' The barley wuz so vfcuBzled by them gulls, we couldna mow
it.'
WEATHER, sb. storms of rain, hail, or snow, — * it looks like weather o' some sort' — ^Wbllinoton.
' Swich housinge we han * to holde out l^e wedures,*
Alexander and Dindimua, 1. 443.
'A.Sax. weder; O.Sax. wedar; O.IceL w^r; O.H.Germ. wetar, weather (tempeataay — Stbat.
' Tempestas ... a seasonable time, and faire weather, a ienypest or 9torme,^ — Diet. Etym, Lat,
WEATHEEED, part, adj, damaged, but not spoilt, by too long
weatlier as a verb, in the sense of to dry in the open air : —
' Maides, mustard seede gather, for being too ripe,
and weather it well, er ye giue it a smpe :
Then dresse it and laie it in seller vp sweete,
least foistines make it for table vnmeete.'
Augwte huabandriey ed. E. D, S., p. 129.
WEATHEE-OALL, sb, the secondary rainbow. — Pulvarbatgh. < Oome an' look whad a big rainbow, an'
the weather-galVB aumust as bright as
the bow.'
Mr. Halliwell says, < I am told a second rainbow above the first is called in the Isle of Wight a water-geal,
Carr has weather-gaily a secondary or
broken rainbow.'
Compare Shakespeare's ' water^galU ' in Lucreoe, 1. 1588.
WED,
^ raps.'
PULVERBATOH ; WORTHBN.
* Tr(K2(Saz.),agageorpawn; a word still retained in the Countrey sport called Pray, my Lord, a course in
your Park,* — ^Blount's Olosso-
graphia, p. 697.
Wed is found in early writers with a nobler sense of gage :
* the which was reserued.
By Tydeus, of intencioun.
To the Kyng to make relacioun.
How his knyghtes han on her ioume eroedde,
Eurich of hem his lyf left for a toedldey
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* ** Nay," Bayd (Jray-steele, " by St John ! this one yeere he shall not goe home, but he shall either fight or flee, or a ived in this land leaue shall
hee." '
Eger and Or%ne\ 1. 952. Percy Folio MS,, vol i. p. 384, ed. Hales and Furniyall.
Archbishop Trench remarks that, ' in a vast number of instances a word lives on as a verb, but has coEuted to
be employed a^) a noun ; vre say ....
"to wed," but not ** a werf," unless it should be ureed that this survives in ** wed-locls.,** a
locking or binding together through
the giving and receiving of a " wed,^* or pledge, namely, the ring.' — English Fast and Present, p. 96.
* Wedde, or thynge leyyd yn plegge. Vadium^ pignus,' — Prompt. Parv,
'A.Sax. tuedd (wed); O.Icel. ve^ ; Gk>th. vadi; O.H.Germ. wetti, gage, pledge.' — Stbat.
(2) pret. weeded. Com. *• Tve bin mighty busy i' the garden this onder; I've wed the two inion-beds, 'awed
the forrat tatoes, an' scuffled the
alleys/
* Wed, fro noyows wedys. Buncatus/ — Prompt Parv.
WEEBLE [wee'bl], sb. a coleopterous insect of the family Curcu- lionido!, which comprises several species —
^known as weevils — ^that infest
bacon, grain, &c. — Pulyebbatgh. Qv. com. ' I'm afeard as the weebUs bin got i' the sh5other o' that
nitchen, I sid one o' the 'ouse-flur a
bit agfto.*
The form wihU occurs as the gloss of oantarvs, in a Vocabulary ^ viiL cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. ii p. 103.
*A.8. wefil; O.Pu. wevel; O.H.Gferm. wiWZ; weevil {curculioy — Stbat.
WEEDING AWAY, phr, gradually diminishing. — Pulverbatch. * I did 'ope as my coal d$d a lasted till
nigh Chris'mas, but I see as it's
weedin* away sadly too fast. '
WEEDY. See Waidy.
WEEPnrO THBOXTOH, phr, dropping ; oozing ; leaking.— Pulvkr- BATOH. ^I see as that barrel o'
one-way-drmk 's weepin' through, theer
mus' be a new 'oop on, else we sha'n '&ve it all about the cellar.*
WEEPY, adj, moist — the trickling moisture observable in badly pressed cheese. — Pttlvbbbatch. 'Sally, one
o' the fat cheeses is weepy y mind to
turn it on a dry place, an' notice it every day. '
WEE-WOW [wee'wou], adj. more on one side than on the other — ill-balanced, and shaky. — Pulvbbbatoh. ' I
knowed well enough that load d5d never
raioh wham, it wuz all wee-wow afore it leT &e fild.'
WEK, WEKLY [wek-1 adjs. weak ; weakly. Com. ' Well, as to bein' wek, poor wratch ! 'e wuz al'ays wMy
from a child, an' canna expec' to be
better now.'
< 1535-6. This yeare was a maltman slayne in erope lone in Shrewsburie w*** the fall of a wecke
chymney in an old howse there
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w*^ fell upon hym in tying the horse there after he had pytchyd hys loade.' — Early Chronicles of Shrewsbury
[Taylor MS.), in Tramactians of the
Shropshire Archoeological and Natural History Society.
WELLY [wel'iH, adv. nearly ; well-nigh, — * welly demmed,' /. e. nearly fietmishea; 'welly bos'n/ i.e.
nearly hurst, haying eaten to
repletion, are familiar usages of the term.---SHREW8BxntT ;
Pulyeb- batch; Wbllinoton; Collieby;
Nbwpobt; Wem; Whitchubch; Ellesmere.
Qy. com.
Grose has * Welly. Almost, nearly. N.'
A.S. wel-neahy weU-nigh; near.
WELT, (1) sb, a thick, coarse, clumsy seam. — ^Pulverbatgh ; Wem. Qy. com. < Yo'n made this sem too broad,
sich a great welt as this odd cripple
anybody to lie on. '
J 2) sb. the ribs of knitting at the top of a sock or stocking are Led weUSf the plural form being usualfy
employed in this sense of the term.
Com. *Ifll be a stockin* sometmie — ^yo'n bin knittin' about a wik, an* nod out o* the welts yet.'
(3) V. a. to flog; to lash; to inflict stripes. Com. 'The school- msoster's welted that poor bwoy shameful —
'e ought to be com- plained on.'
Mr. Halliwell gives < Welt, to beat severely,' as a Norfolk word.
[4) sb. a raised stripe, or wale, on the skin, caused by a lash, — Leer wuz welts on 'is back, as thick as my
finger.' Com.
WELTDTO, sb. a soand thrashing, — ''e gid the chap a right good weltin' as 'e ddnna forget in a 'urry.'
Com.
WEFCH [wen'sh], sb. a young girl, or young woman, of peasant rank, to whom it is applied in no unworthy
sense — ^the good old word maintaining
its respectability. Com.
' Forsothe alle kast out, he takith the fadir and modir of the wenche, and hem that weren with him, and
thei entren yn, where the wenche lay.
And he holdinge the hond of the wenche, seith to hir, "Tabita, cumy," that is
interpretid or expownid, ** Wenche, to
thee I seie, rise thou." And anon tiie wenche roos, and
walkide; Bothly she was of twelue
leer.' — Mark v. 40 — 42, Wycliflate Version,
A.D. 1380.
* ill-8tarr*d wench ! Pale as thy
smock ! when we shall meet at compt.
This look of thine will hurl my souL from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, oold,
my girl I Even like thy chastity.'—
(XAeZto, V. ii 272.
' Once haruest dispatched, get wenches and boles,
and into the bame, afore all other toies.
Choised seede to be picked and trimlie well fide, for seede may no longer from threshing
abide.'
TuBSEB, Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie [August].
* Wenche. Asseda, abra, ancilla.^ — Prompt. Parv. Dr. Morris says, ' Wench is a shortened
form of the O.E. wetichel, which in
the " Ormulum " [a.I). 1200, circa"] is applied to Isaac, and
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was originally a word of the common gender/ — Historical English Accidence, p. 84. See Wench in Skeat's Etymological
Dictionary.
WEP [wep'l, pret. wept — ^Shrewsbury ; Pulvbrbatch. Qy. com. ' The poor J^aither was despertly cut up,
'e wep bitterly — it's mighty 'ard to
see a mon cry.'
* fyanne of-saw he ful sone * l^at semliche child, ))at so loueliche lay & wep * in l^at
lof^H caue.'
William of Pahme, 1. 50.
' But oonly for the feere thus sohe cryede
And w^, that it was pit6 for to heere.'
Chattoer, The Knightes TaUy L 1487, ed. Morris.
Dr. Morris notes toe^ as an obsolete strong iorni.'-'Hidorical English Accidence, p. 157.
*A.Sax., O.Sax. weop; O.H.G^rm. wiof (jpret.), wep (Jlevi),' — Strat.
WEBBET [waef *it], v, a. and v. n. to harass ; to trouble ; to torment ; to worry. Com. * What made your
Mistress feunt^ Price P ' asked the
Doctor. • Well, Sir, 'er werrits 'erself so.' * ** Werrits herself!" what do you mean by that?'
'Well, Sir, werritin* o'er that owd
Shropshire book, 'er gies 'erself no rest o'er it; an' if I say. Ma'am, hanna yo' done plenty for to-day P
'er only laughs, an' tellB me nod to
werrit — ^but, Sir, I dunna like these faintin'-aitches.' * I will come up and see your Mistress,' quoth
the good Doctor, and when he came, he
had 'a crack' with his patient about werriting I [1873].
WESH, (1) V. a. to wash. Coel
' In water ich wel \>e cristny her As Gk>de him-self hyt di^te ; For mide to wessc?ie nis no\>ynge pat man come> to so lijte,
In londe.
William of Shoreham (a.d. 1307—1327). De
Baptismo, Specim, Early Eng,, vi L 52.
A.S. wcescan, wascan, to wash.
(2) 8b, same as' Swill (5), q. y. Com.
WESHnrG-STOCK See Wa4ihing-stook.
WESH-TTJB, same as Swill-tub, q. v. Com.
WETCHET [wech-rt and wech-u't], acy, wet in the feet ; we^shod. —Pulvbrbatch; Welunoton. 'Jest look at yore
stockin'-fit !— dun them shoes loose
yo' wetcJiet f — ^w'y it's none sence they wun tapt'
' Ac be^geres aboute Midsomer * bredlees |^ soupe, And 3it is wynter for hem worse ' for
wete-shodde pei ^nge.'
Piers PL, Text B., pass. xiv. 1. 161.
Mr. Skeat explains Langland' s ' wete-shodde ' — ^which appears as wet-ehoed, paas. xviii. 1. 1 — to be, 'with
wet shoes,' 'wet-footed,' and
supplements his gloss as follows, — ' WeUhod, with water in the
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shoes. ''Are yon not weUhodf" have not yonf shoes taken in water ?*— Marshall's Glossary of Yorkshire
Words, 2nd ed., 1796. Compare also —
< ^ere men were wetsehoede Alle of
brayn & of blode.' Arthur, ed.
FnmivaU, E. E. T. 8., 1864, L 469.
In Oxfordshire it is pronounced Waicherd [wochiird], and nsed cor- rectly by many who have no idea of what are
the component parts of the word. The
opposite form, dryshod, is better Known; see
Isaiah xi. 15. The corresponding Icelandic word is skdvdtr^ lit '
tihoe- weV—Notes to Piers PL, pp. 328,
395, ed. E. R T. 8.
* Watchet, Wet shod, wet in the feet,' is given by Grose for Oxfordshire.
WHAS [wod], pron. what Com.
' By whom also thow moste mynne. And
whom he gart to do that synne, And
whad they were that were here ferns,
Prestes or clemis, monkes or frerus.'
MS, CoU. Claud,, A. iL f . 146, in Hal.
See T (1), in Grammar Outlines (consonants),
WHAD FOS, phr, reason to remember, as of pain, ponishment, abuse, scolding, &a, — 'that tuth gid
me whad for;' — *'e gid the chap whad
fur, I can tell yo\* Com.
WHAM, WHOM, WHOME [waam*, warn*], Pulverbatoh. [waam*, woam*], B&iDONOBTH. [wum*, wom*], Com.,
sh. home.
' Than preyde the ryche man Abraham
That he wide sonde Lazare or sum other whamj*
MS. Earl, 1701, f. 44, in Hal.
* 1581-2. This yeare and in the moonthe of Februarie were all the souldiars in Ireland dyschardgid, and ev'y
man went whom to thyre countrey.' —
Early Chronicles of Shrewsbury {Taylor MS,), in TranS" actions of the Shropshire Archceological
and Natural History Society.
< but whom then came Glasgerryon, a
^lad man, Lord, was nee, ** ana come
thou hither, lacke, my boy, Come
hither ynto mee." '
Glasgerion, 1. 21. Percy Folio MS., vol. i. p. 249, ed. Hales and FumiyaU.
* And yf thou wylt not so do, Whome
with the then wyll y goo.*
MS. Cantab. Ft ii. 38, t 210. in Hal.
*A.Sax. hdm; O.Saz. liim; O.H.Germ. heim; O.IceL heimr ; Goth, haims, home.* — Strat,
WHET [wet*], sb. an attempt ; a triaL Qy. com. * Fm gwein to clave that brund, it's balked me wunst or
twize,'but I^U 'live another w*et at
it.'
* A whet is no let.'— Bat's Proverbs, p. 168.
WHET-SPBIHO, sb. a spot where the whey collects in imperfectly
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pressed cheese ; it causes cracks which attract flies. — ^Wellington. < I doubt theer's bin a vfey-spring i'
this cheese, see *ow the maggots han
gotten into it'
* As Mawdlin wept, so wduld Cisley be drest,
for whey in hir cheeses, not halfe inough prest If eentils be scrauling, call magget the
py, if cheeses haue gentils, at Cisse
by and by.'
TussER, A lesion for dairie maids, etc, p. 108, ed. E. D. S.
WHIFFLE [wiM], (1) v. n. to reer ; to shift ; to blow inconstantly : said of the wind. — Shrewsbuby ; Pulvbrbatoh
; Wobthen ; Cleb Hills. * I dunna know
whad to mak' o^ the weather this momin*,
the winde does so whiffle about throm North to West — I've bin
watchin' the cap o' the Wrekin, if it
gwuz toert Wenlock, we sha'n '&ye a fine
day/
* Two days before this storm began the wind whij^ed about to the south, and back again to the east, and blew
very faintly.' — Dampier, in Wedo.
* Du. weyfelen, fluctuare, inconstantem esse, omni yento yersarL' — i^t7tan, — Ibid.
^2) v. n. to moye about, as if stirred by a light wind. — Ibid. *I thmk we sha'n dry the clothes, they begin
to w'iffle about a bit.'
WHIFFLE-MIHDED, adj. changeable; vacillating. — PdLyERBATCH ; Wobthen ; Wem. ' Theer's no 'eed to be took
on a fellow like 'im, 'e's so
u/iffle-minded — 'e dunna know 'is own mind two minutes together.'
WHIG [wig'], sb. wine-posset. — Shrewsbury. *Cook, yo' mus' mak' the Missis some v/ig, 'er's eot a bad
coud.' * Wig^ said Cook — who was of
another County— * wnat's that P ' * W'y, Tnillr boiled 5oth winde.' * Oh, I know ; wint-wheyy you
mean.'
< Thick Milky is Churned Milk gone thick. Whigg^ is the bottom or breaking of thick Milk.' — Academy of
Armory ^ Bk. III. oh. viii. p. 335.
See Whig, in Nabes ; also in Hal. W. chwig, whey fermented ; chwigwe, whey drink.
WEIGHTED [wig'd], adj. broken into whey : said of a milk-pudding that has curdled in the oven. —
^Whttghttbch ; Ellesmebe. 'I doubt
this custurt-p&ddin' 's w'igged, the oven's bin a bit too sharp
fur itb '
Pegge gives ' Whig, the watery part, or whey, of a baked custard. North.'
WHIHlfOCK [win'uk], v. n, to cry querulously, as a young child does. — PuLVEBBATCH ; Wellington ;
Oswestby. ' That child's done nuthin'
but ufinnock all this day ; God 'elp it, it looks despert pulin'.' Whiniiock seems to be a verbal
form of whine -^ ock = a little cry.
* A.Sax. hwfnan; O.Icel. hvinct, to whine.' — Stbat.
WHIPPET-DOO, sb. a dog of a cross-breed, between a greyhound and a terrier. — ^Wellington ; Newpobt.
WHIALIQOQ [wur'l-i'gog], sb. a turnstile. — Pulverbatch. * Dunna be in a 'urry, Maister, "it's one at a
time 'ere," as the owd 55maD
said, at the w*irligogJ
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WHISK [wis'tj, sh., o6«J the game of whist. — Pulvbrbatch. ' Welly theer's jeet four on us, let's
'&Ye a game at tu'isk afore fotherin'
time.*
'It is mentioned with other games in Tayloi^s Motto, 1622, sig* D. iy. It is also spelt whisk in the
Coimtry Gentleman's Yade- Mecum, 8vo.
Lend. 1699, p. 63.'— Hal.
WHIS8XJH-OILL0FEB [wis-n], sb, Hesperis matinalis. Single Bocket. — Ellesmere. This plant flowers
about Whitsuntide, whence the
appellation. See Qillofer.
WHISSUHMOITDAT, WHI8SXJH-TUESD&T, she. the Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun-week. Com.
The forms ' WhiUun Munday* ' WhiUun Tuesday y are found in a 'Book of Common Prayer. London. Printed by
John Bill and ChriBtopher Barker^
Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. MDCLXn.'
WHISSXTH-STJVDAT, sh. Whitaun-Day. Com.
' Hec pentetoste, -tes, why Sunday,' occurs in a Nominalty zy. cent., in Wr. yocabs., vol. L p. 239.
WHISSUVTIT, ah. Whitsuntide'.— Pulverbatch.
* Byfore, after, and whyssone tyde,
Eghte dayes they schullen abyde.'
MS. Cott. Claud., A. ii. f. 128, in Hal.
See Tid (1).
WHI8SXJH-WEEK, sb. Whitsun-week.— Pulverbatch. Qy. com. ' Wretyn at Lederyngham, the Tewesday in
Whisson toekej — Paston Letters, temp.
Hen. yi., yoL L p. 550.
WHISTLE [wisi], v. n. to sing : said of biids, — ' 'ark at that throstle ; dunnot e vfisHe beautiful ? ' —
Newport.
WUlTECAP, sb, Rutidlla phcBnicura, the Eedstart Qy. com. Whitecap seems to be a gentle-folk's term.
Of Brand-tail.
WHITE-CEOWFOOT, sb. Ranunculus aquatilis, Water Crowfoot— Olttn; Ludlow. Cf. Beits.
WHITE FLAT LROITSTONE, sb. an inferior ironstone.— Colubrt ; M.T.
< The White Flat [rongtone contains some yery interesting fossils, the characteristic plants being
Lycopodiacese and Equisetacese.
Associated with these are considerable quantities of Unio, scales
and bones of Megalichthys, Hibhertiy
and Oyracanthus Formosus, Also, most
singular fossils of undescribed Crustacea of the Trilobite family.' ^Notes on the Shropshire Coal Field, by T.
Parton, F.G.S., 1868,
Cf. Blne-71at0. See Coal-Eield.
WHITE-PXrDDIHOS, sb. pi. a kind of sweet sausages, made by filling the larger-sized ' chitterlings,'
or pig's intestines- after a pro- cess
of thorough cleansing— with a mixture of boiled groats, pork fat cut into small pieces, sweet herbs chopped
fine, currants, sugar, and spice, and
then tying them in links. They ai'e slightly pncked to preyent them from bursting, and boiled for
twenty minutes. When wanted for table
they are roasted. Com. See Chitterlings.
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WHITET-BSOWV, adj. the pale, dusky hue of unhleached calico, thread, &c. , to which the term is
chiefly applied. Com. ' It'll mak' yo*
a rar' winter gownd, an' line it all throu^ 65th wHtey-hrown callica.'
WHIXALIrBIBLES, sb. pi,, si A pieces of peat prepared for fuel on Whizall-Moss. — ^Whitohubch ; Ellesmere.
See Turf, also Mosb.
WHOABrFBOST [wur'- fr'os], sb. a hoar-frost; a white frost — Shbewsbuby ; Pulverbatch. * Theer wuz a hit
o' vmr-froa' i' the yarly mormn', hut
no danger as yo* sid'n it, yo' wunna up time
enough.'
' *' fGEurwell Knowsley, that litle tower
yndemeth the holtes soe whore* I
euer when I thinke on that bright bower, white me not though my hart he sore."
'
FJlodden F/eilde, L 214. Percy Folio MS., ed-
Hales and Fumivall, vol. i. p. 237.
* * hoar, hoary white.' — ^Note hy Bp. Peeot, —Ibid, Of. Ketch-o'-firo8t.
WHOM, WHOME. See Wham. See, for these and the two following words, W (3), in Ghraxmnar
Outlines {consonanU),
WHOT [wot* and wut'], cu^\ hot — Shkbwbburt; Pulvebbatgh. Qy. com. ' This piiddin* *s as to* of as
loye nine days owd.'
* 1583-4. This yeare and in the sayd moonthe of December a serv'nt of Bychard Ghrdn* of Salop, whose name was
Thomas Ootf n, was by myschance faUyn
in to a mrnes of wJiot hoylinge lycker, and so pre- sently boylyd to deathe.' — Early
Chronicles oj Shrewsbury {Taylor MS,)y
in Transactions of t?ie Shropshire Archoeologioal and Natural History Society,
* And in the midst of all There placed
was a caudron wide and tall Upon a mightie
fomace, burning whott, More whott then
Actn' or flaming Mongiball, For day
and night it brent, ne ceased not'
Sfenseb, F, Q,y Bk. n. c. ix. st xxiz.
Grose gives * Wliott, Hot Exmoor.'
Mr. Halliwell observes of ' what, that it is * still in use.'
WI', prep, with, — ' dunna thou goo alung w^ no sich chaps as 'im.' —Bridgnorth; Newport; Whitchurch.
' Then hey, for a lass wi^ a tocher, then hey, for a lass wC a tocher. Then hey, for a lass wi^ a tocher ; the
nice yellow guineas for me.'
Robert Burns, p. 195, 11. 15, 16. See
With (3).
WICKEIf , WICSIT, sb. Pyrus aitcupdria, Quicken-tree, or Mountain- ash. — Wellington, Wrekin. See Witan-tree.
WICKET, sb., pec, a little gate across a path, or narrow way. Com. *Yo' canna tak' a cart fiiat way, it's a
fiit-path an' bridle-road; theer's
wickets all the way.' See example sub voce Qain (1).
' Bidde a-Mende [->ou] Meken him ' to his Mayster onee^ To Wynne vp ^ wihet-yxt * )>at )>e
wey schutte.*
Piers PI, Text A., pass. vi. 1. 92.
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* Wickd a little door (commonly) where great gates are/ —
BLOUirr's Olosaographia^ p. 700.
* IVickei [prob. of guichet, F.] a small door in a larger.'—BAiLKY ed. 1727.
O.Fr. toikei, of which guichet is a later spelling. See Bttb.
WIBDEH* [widn], v. a., var. pr. to widen, as in knitting a stocking. Com.
WlilDEVnT'S, sK pL the spaces where a stocking is widened, in order to give shape to the leg. Com. ' 'Ow
many bouts mun I knit atween the
tnd'nin'Bf 'Three, the same as yo* pfit*n atween the
narrowin's.*
WIBDIES, sb. pi. young ducklings. — Pultsrbatch ; Worthsn. See Call- Words to Poultry (duck^
WIDOEOIT, 8b. £veiy kind of Wild Duck except Anas boschas, the MaUard, is called a Widgeon in Salop. Com.
WIDOW, sb. a widower. A widow is called a widoio-woman. — EiXESMEBE, WeUhamptan. Mr. Skeat says that ' the termination -«r to
widow is oomparatively modem; d A.S.
wuduwa, masc.; xmtduwey Com.'
WIO, sb. a small, oblong bun, made of very light dough, with sugar and carraway-seeds in it. — Shbewsbubt ;
Ellesicerb. ' Now, chil- dem, if yo'
mn ^ood awile I'm away. 111 bring yo' a wig apiece throm EUesmer' markit.'
'Wygge, brede (or bunne brede. P.). "Wygge, Eschaude." — Pauk^. '* Wig or bun, a bunn or little
manchet ; Collyra, libum." —
OoniJ>ic In Herefordshire a small cake is called a wig.* —
Prompt. Parv. and Notes.
* Echaud§, esp^oe de g&teau fiedt de p&te ^chaud^e. Echode, wig, simneL' — Chamb.
' Du. wegahe, vngghe, a wedge, thence a mass, an oblong cake of bread or of butter.' — ^Eilian, in Wedo.
See Bk. IL, FoOdore, ftc, 'Customs connected with Days and Seasons' {Christmas).
WIGOT, adj. said of turnips which have ceased to grow in the roots and have struck out a mass of fibres
into the soil — Pulveb- BAT€H ; Atcham
; Wem. * These turmits bin pretty bad to pool up, they bm that wiggyJ
WIK [wi'k*], sb. a week. Com.
' 1505 It for W" Boe the yon^rs table and his mans about pool- ing downe the window ij wykes ix"
ii^^' — Churchwarden^^ Accounts of the
Abbey ^ Shrewsbury.
"' par Charite, jif |h>u Conne
Eny lyf of leche Craft * lere hit me, my deore,
For summe of my seruauns ' beo)> soke o)>er- while.
Of alle ^ wike heo Worche^ not * so heor wombe ake|>." '
Piers PL, Text A. pass, vii 1. 243.
'A. Sax. wios, wuce; G.Fris. wike; CIceL vika; Goth, vika; O.H.Germ. wecha, week.'— Strat.
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WIK OB HIVE DATS, phr, a yaried form of the ' week or ten days/ BO ffenerally used to denote a period
which is more than a week and Lbss
than a fortnight. Com.
WIK 0' SUVSATS, pkr. any indefinite time,—' I hanoa sid 'er fur a wik o' 8wfiday$* GomL
WJJj fwiil, Bb.y var. pr, a wheel. Qy. com.
< P^ Jofin Ohydl^ v* 21 of December 1578 for makynge of a whyle to a bell in saynt Gylees ij*.' —
OhyrchwardefW Acoounta of the Ahhejf^
Shrewsbury.
' A.Saz. hvaedl; O.Du. wed^ wiel; cf. OJoel. A«o2, a wheeL' — Strat.
WILD SAOE, ab. MevUha rotundifdlia, round-leaved Mint, var. vartegaUt (garden plant). — WuiTOUUiiOH,
Til$tock.
WHE-SICHE, adv, now and then ; at odd times. ' 'E's at it every vHU'dche,* — Olee Hills. Compare wiU in the
following : —
' but from >e cherl & \>e child * noy chaunge we ours tale, For i wol of {to werwolf * a ivUe nov
speke.'
William o/Paleme, 1. 79.
'A. Sax. htvile (tempiia); O.Sax. hitSla; OJH.Gemu {h)wita {hora^ momentum); while.' — Stbat.
WILIrOILL, sb, an hermaphrodite. — ^Pulvbbbatch ; Wellinqton. Qy. com.
WILLOW [wil'oe], sb, an active search for any missing article, — * I mun '&ve another wiUow fur it.' —
Ellesmerb, WeUhampton ; OswESTBY. llus
seems to be a WeUh Border word; the Welsh
ehwilio has emphatically the same signification. Cf. Brevit (2).
WIL-Pnf [wi'l pin], ab., obe. a wooden pin about seven or eight inches long with a knob at each end, — a
spinner's implement used for turning
the wheel of what was commonly called the long whed, on which wool was spim.— Pulvebbatoh. See
example sttb voce Knobble.
WILBIT [wi-Wt], 9b, a wheelwright Qy. com.
WIMBEBET [wim-br'i*], sb. the fruit of Vacdnium MyrHUus, the Whortleberry. Com. 'Theer^s a good 'it o'
wimh^riea this tune.' ' That's a rar'
job fur the 'iUers,' «. e. people who go to the hills for the purnose of ^theiing wimberriee.
Mr. Tnomas Wright says, ' I enjoy the peculiar feel and sound pio> duced by trampling over the bilberry bushes
as we wander throng^ the solitude of
the forest. They call them whimberriea in Shropshire.' — A Visit to the Scene of Comus^ in Once a
Week, 27 Jan. 1866.
Wimherry seems to be a variation of Winberry = Wine-berry, See Winberry. See also Bilberry and Blaeberry.
WIMBEEBT-WIEES, t<b, pL the stems of the shrub Vacdnium MyrtilluSf oil which the wimberries grow.
Com. ' Theer 66nna be many wimb'ries
this 'ear ; I wuz lookin' at the toirea the tother day, an' they wun blowed despert scant.' See
Wires.
WIMOTE [weimoat], sb, Althcka officindliSy common Marsh Mallow. — CoRVE Dale.
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WIX-WAH, Bh. a taniBtae.— Wellington. Cf . Whirligog.
WIHBEBST, same as Wimberry, ante^ q. v. — Worthex, Cherhury. * Me an^ my boys Ixan puck as many as six
quarts o' tvind^ries in a day, but
tne^ oin mighty triflme [tedious] to gather/ The term trinberry, which obtains on the '^^stem
Border of Salop, has only a yery
limited range; it was formerly — ^in 1804, undoubtedly — ^used near Oswestry, at Cem-y-bwch, where the
berries then grew plenti- fully, but
now [1881] yery few are found there, and those are called wimberrieB by the people. Winberry is a
contraction of win&'berry, an old
name for the miii
Gherarde giyes in his Herhall — Ist ed., A.D. 1597 — ^a supplementaxj list of old or obsolete terms ; amongst
them we find * Wyneherriea is
Vaccinia^ In the body of his work, speaking of ' VcLccinia or
Whortee,' he says that * we in England
call Whortleberries .... in some
places FFinftcrrfM.'— Bk. HL p. 1231.
Bandle Holme says, ' Bill-Berries . . . are termed Whortle Berries or Wind-Berries.^ — Academy of Armory, Bk.
U, ch. y. p. 81.
Ash giyes ' WituT berry. The whortleberry, the bilberry.*
Bailey— ed. 1782— has ' A Wind-Berry a Bill-berry, or Whortle- berry.'
Compare the introduction of the d in Winherry with the same thing in Winde (1), below.
Pe^ge has * Whin-berry, a bilberry, a whortle-berry. North,' — a spelling obyiously at fiBiuit, for, sinoe '
eyery tree yieldeth fruit after his
kind,* Whin, i. e. Furze, cannot produce Whortleberriea. Thus — 'Owyst pn, gaderalS man winrherian of ^mum,
otISe ficseppla of liymcinum.* — Matt,
yii 16. A.S. Gk>spels, ed. Thorpb.
A.S. foin-berige; a wine-berry, a grape.
WUDE [weind], (1) sb., var. pr. wine, — * Yo'n 'Sve a glass o* mnde afore ycr gd'n.' Oom.
< 1753. For Bred & Winde A feching it 0-3-8.'
ChurchuHirden9* AccounU, Hopton Oastle, Salop.
(2) «(.» var. pr. wind, — ^ Theer's a despert ooud winde to-night.' Com.
Wnn>EE-BITS, WIVDEB-SAOS [win-dui^], 8b. pL fragments; shreds, — ' Dunna gie the child that doll,
*erll tar it aU to winder-rag$J Com.
WIHSEBS, same as aboye, — ' '£ broke it all to mnder$.' Com.
WIHSIH' [wei'ndin], part. adj. yapouring; talking foolishly — * without rune or reason,' —
'"Wbadeyer bin *ee winditC at now P' —
Wmc
WDTDBOW. SeeWinrow.
WDTDT [wei-ndi'], (1) adj. noisy ; blustering ; silly,— Shmwbbubt ; Wbm. (1) ' 'E*s a windy fool.' (2) <
*£'s the windier chap w'en 'e's 'ad a
drop o' drink as eyer I seed.'
(2) adj. A horse is said to be ' windy ' that is fresh and plays about, instead of settling to work. — ^Weic
WlHI>T-MILL [wei'ndi'], *6., var. pr. a wind-mill. Qy. com. A
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certain man observed of another that ' 'e wuz a crack-waggon^ uHndy- miU fox ! ' Compare —
' To haye unnd-mUh in his head.' — CRAY'S Proverbs, p. 216.
WIHO, (1) V. a. to fling ; to hurL — ^Whitohdrch ; Ellssmbrb. ' *£ ketcht out on 'im by the collar, an' winged
'im reet across the kitchen.'
(2) eh,, oheoU, the shoulder of a hare or rabbit when dressed for table.— Pulybbbatgh; Ellesmerb. Qy. com.
' . . . him followed servants bearing on mighty dish crane already cat np, and plentifolly sprinkled wiui
salt, and meal besides ; also the
liver of a white goose fieittened on rich figs, and haree' vrings * torn off and served by themselves.' —
H0&A.0E, Saiiree, Bk. IL viiL 89,
Globe Edition, p. 158.
* ' <' haret^ toingsy** which the ancients thought the best parL' — Note, p. 251.
WIVK-AHD-PEEP, sb. AnagaUis arvSnsis, scarlet Pimpernel — Wbluhoton. The flowers of this plant open
to the morning sun, and close at
noon-tide; they close also on the approach of rain; whence the pretty local name Wink-^nd-Peep.
WZHLDfO [win'linl sb,, var, pr. a weanling — a term applied to a newly- weaned lamb. — ^Pulyesbatch.
'"Whad a blaitm* theer is amone
the ship to-day I ' ' Aye, they'n bin partin' 'em, an' the yeows bin cfQlin' to me urituMe,''
WlJMJBiA, will not See Chrammar Outlines, p. Izxx.
' An tell them wi' a patriot-heat, Ye
vnnna bear it ! '
Robert Burns, Poeme, p. 11, L 10.
WIHBOW [winVoe], sb. a long row, or continuous heap, of hay,
cocks ' are made by rolling up the winrow. Com. ' The rain oouldna ketch it at a wus time than in winrowe ; if
it 'ad bin cocked, it 5od a throwed it
ofll* Winnyw is windrow with the d eliminated. A windrow is said to mean a row exposed to the action
of the wind,
Grose gives * Windrow, To windrow, to rake the mown erass into rows, called windrows. Norl and Suff.' Of.
duile (=: oo»Q.
WnrTEK-PSOXTD, adj. said of wheat that, after a mild winter, shews an undue luxuriance in the early
spring-tide. — Pulyekbatoh ;
Wellinoton; Newport. 'The Bam-leasow's gettin' too winter- proud, the com 55d aumust cover a crow, an'
that's o'er-forrat ^ir Febriwerry.'
WINTIE OS WBAVGLE [win-ti'], phr. to win at any risk.— Cues Hills.
WDfTLIirO [win*tlin], ab,, obs. a young, fragile, and very small child — too sniall for its aee. —
^Pxtlyebbatoh. ' Have you seen Driver
anywhere about P ' < I sid 'im at Betty Boberts's a bit ag65, Sir, mindin' the wintlin\* This statement seems a
singular one, neverth^eas it
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was quite true that Driver, the most sagaciotis and gentle of sheep- dog, would, if called upon to do so, watch
over the tiny child ox a neighbouring
cottager, and keep her out of harm's way, while her Mother went on some needfiil errand, — it
was a pretty sight, the good dog lying
in vigilant attitude across the threshold of the 0|>6n door of the ootlage, with the ' tnrUlirC,' thus
prevented from stej)ping out- side,
nestling up to him in loving trust ; and a si^ht which might often have been seen by the village folk in
whose midst the child and the dog
were, nearly half a oentiiry ago.
WIPPET, sb, a small creatuie, — ' a wippet of a child.' — ^Wobthbn ; Wkm.
WIBESy sb. pi. The runners of strawberry-plants, and the stifE^ angular stems of the whortleberrv shrub,
are reepectivelv and alike called
wire$, — * strawberry-t9»re8 ; — * wimberry-wrej.' Com.
MyrtuSf glossed i&tr, appears in an Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary ^ x. or xL cent., in Wr. vocabs., vol. i. p. 285.
WISE-KAV, WISE-WOKAV, ah. one-man or woman, as the case may be— who exercises the arts of
divination, and deals in charms ; a
soothsayer. — Shbewsbubt; OobybDaxe; Cleb Hills; Ludlow. A.S. vAsay a sage, philosopher, director,
wise man. Of. Cnmiing- man. See Bk.
11., Folklore, Ac,, * Charming.'
WiSEV Fwei-zn], (1) v, a. to teach ; to cause to learn wisdom, — 'I should think as that d5d wisen '\m a bit* —
Shbbwsbubt ; Ellbsicbbb.
' o)«r-wise wold sche nou^t * wi$aen here ladi In what manor che ment ' last sche were
a-greued.'
WiUiam o/Paleme, I. 640.
'A.Sax. todian; O.Sax. wi$ean; O.IceL vt«a; O.H.Qerm. wden; to instruct, direct, shew.' — Stbat.
(2) V. n. to think upon ; to reflect; to cause wisdom to bear upon, in thought, — ' Pll wism upon it.' —
Wellinoton.
(3) «&, var. pr, the windpipe, — ^the weasand. — Oolliebt.
' ]^po^ ^ ^^ coUer griped fast, ^ That
with the straint his vfe9and nigh he brast'
Spbnsbb, F. §., Bk. V. a iL st. xiv.
' ^umeiijwasend,' occurs in an Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary, x. or xi. cent, in Wr. vocabs., vol. i p. 282, where
it relates to the human body.
« Wuaunl, of a beestjrs throte. T$ofagu8,*—Prornpt. Parv.
< A.S. wJbund; OJVis. waaende, the windpipe.' — ^Wedo.
WI8K fwis'k], sb. a cough — the term is applied to the domestic animals of a feurm, horses, cows, &c. —
Pulvebbatoh ; Oswestbt. ' Yo'd'n
better tak a bog an' throw o'er the mai^ awile 'er stan's, fur 'er's gotten a bit of a witk now.' Of.
Hoost.
WISKETy (1) ah, a strong osier basket used for gardening pur- poses, — sameasXipe, q.v. — Shbewsbuby;
Pulvebbatoh; Ludlow. Qy. com.
< A Wiahety or Straw-basket, in which Provender is given Cows or Oxen.' — Academy of Armory, Bk. II. ch. ix.
p. 173.
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Bay gives ' A Whiskd, a Basket, a SkatUe or shallow Fed,* as a < North Country Word.* He also gives
< Wiaket ' as an altematiye
spelling.
' A tohUJcd, corbis, cophinus.*— Ogles' Lot, Diet. a.d. 1677.
(2) $h, the wicker case in which a stone beer-bottle is canied to the field. — Nbwpobt.
(3) tib, a wicker strainer placed over the spigot-hole within the mash-tub to prevent the grains passing
through into the wort— Whitohuboh. Of.
Kaahing-baaket.
(4) sh, a satchel made of bass-matting. — ^Newtobt; Ellbskebe.
WISLES [wei'zlz], sb. pi. potato-stalks. — Pulvbbbatoh; Whit- OHUBOH ; Ellesmebb ; Oswestby. ' The
Bough-Beds bin a capital croppin'
tato, an' thiowen up mighty tall ioidea.*
Bandle Holme ^lys, 'The tops of Carrats and Parsnips are by Gkutliners termed TFua22a, and some
Wisomes.* — Academy of Armory, Bk. n.
ch. iii. p. 55.
Compare ' Wyn, of striawbery (or pesyn. P.). Fragut,* in Pnmfi Parv.
WITAH-ELHy sb. Ulmua monidna, the Wych Elm. — Cobve Dai£; Ludlow. The emplo^ent of twi^ of this tree
for purpoeee of dim- ation has
doubtless given rise to its local name. A.S. wita»^ gen. sing, of ivita; a wit, one who knows, a
wise or cunning man: whence witan-elm
= elm of the wise man. See Wi8e-m.aiL> also Divining-rod and nib voce.
WITAH-TBEE, sb. the Mountain Ash.— Cobve Dale. A.S. mtan, as for above. See Bk. IL, Folklore^ Ac,
'Superstitions oonnected with Plants.'
Of. Witty-tree.
WITCHES'-STIBBTrPS, sb.pl matted locks in horses' manes.— Clee Hills.
' This is that very Mab That plats the
manes of horses in the night.'
Borneo and Jtdietf I. iv. 89.
See Bk. 11., Folkhre, &a, 'Witchcraft.'
WITCHIFT, V. a. to bewitch ; to practise witchcraft. — ^Ellesmebk. A coined word == M.R wicche : —
"* were |>ei bo)»e here,
pei sohuld wicche wel * pi )>ei a-wei went,
)>omh ^r were werwolfs ' wi)? hem foure schore ! " '
William of Falenie, 1. 2539.
A.S. wicdan, to bewitch ; to use sorcery.
WTSR [with*], (1) sb. a tough, pliant twig, as of Honeysuckle or Willow. — PuLVEBBATOH. * Yo'n find as
oneysuokle withe maken the best
wrathes.'
' Brydille hase he righte nane ; Seese
he no better wane, Bot a wythe has he
tane, And kenyUes his stede.'
Sir Perceval, 421, in Bible Word-Book
See Wraths.
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(2) sb. a band of twisted willow-twiga — ^Ludlow. See Judges zri 7, 8, 9.
* Wythe Bonde (toiUhe wythth, S.). Boia, ** Boia^ torques dam- natomm, quasi jugum in boye^ a bos
dicitor." — Oath.' — Prompt.
Parv. arid Notes,
A.S. wi^iSe, a twisted rod, a band. See Withy. Cf. Wrathe.
(3) [wi''], Bridgnorth; Newport; Whitohuroh. [wudli-], Bridgnorth; Wem; Ellebmere. [SodbO,
SHBEwasuRY; rxTLYSR- BATOH. Qy. com.
in 8, Shr., prep. See wi\
WITHAST [widh'ur't], sb. the sirname Woodward. — Whitchurch. A certain Clergyman asked a man who was
called Withart what his real name was.
The man could not tell, but his wife came to his aid : * W'v/ said she, ' Ven we won married
yo' know they piitten Woodward i' the
beuk.' ' Aye, that's it,' said the man.
Mr. Skeat says the A.S. widu^ wood, is found, as well as wudu; hence the i is quite connect
WITHER [widhaLr*], v. n. to speak in an undertone, with an accom-
Saniment of nods and winks. — Pulverbatch. Qy. com. * Wy unna yo' spake up, an! nod wither an'
w'isper athatn ? '
WXTHEBIVS, «&., obs. the second floor of a malt-house where the malt was dried before going on the kiln. —
Pxtlyerbatch ; Clun. Qy. com. See '
Wither it, &c., sub voce Ooming-floor.
WITHEB-WATHEB [widh'ur^ wadhnir'], adj. hesitating ; stopping to consider. — Shrewsbury ; Pulverbatoh ;
Worthen ; wem. Qy. com. 'Whad! yo' bin
wither'^waiher yet — ^keepin' that poor
fellow like a t$oad on a pitchfork.'
WITB7 [widh*i'], sb. the name, used generically, for all SaliceSf Willows or Osiers, which are trees, or
which would become such, yielding
titriber after their kind. Com.
' ... in the copse itself, where the witheys were gloved with silver and gold, and the primroses and the yioleto
peeped, and the first of the
wood-anemones Degan to star the dead ash-leaves.' — ^B. D. Blaok- HORE, Oradock NoweU, A Tale of the New
Forest, p. 335, ed. 1880.
* The Willow tree is called ... in English, Sallow, WUhie, and Willow.'— Gerardb's Herball, Bk. m. p.
1931.
' Saiix,^ glossed * tin>t,' is found in a Semi-Saxon VocaJnUary, xii. cent., and *wythy* in a Metrical
Vocabulary, ziv. cent., in Wr.
vocabs., voL L pp. 92, 181.
'A.Sax. wi^^e; O.Ioel. vi^; O.Pris. withthe; O.H.Gterm. wida; withy (withe), saiix.'* — Strat.
Cf. SaUy.
WITHT-BED, sb. a willow-plantation; an osier-holt. Qy. com. Cf. SaUy-bed.
WITTY-BERET, sb. the berrv of the Mountain-Ash.— Pulverbatoh. * The little wench thought erself mighty
fine, 56th 'er neckliss o' witty
'berries.'
WITTT-TEEE, sb. the Mountain-Ash.— Pulverbatch. See Witaa- tree.
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WIZZEV-FAOED^ adj, pale-faced, with sharp, pinched features. Qy. com. ''Er^s a poor wizztn-faced little
thing, nnthin' like the rest'
[others].
' A.oax. witnian; O.Ioel. visna; O.H.(}enn. we9{e)nen; to "wizzea (arescere), '— Strat.
WOBBLB, WOPPLK See Wapple.
WOLLEB, WULLEB, sb. Alnus glutindaa, common Alder. Both forms obtain. — Shrewsbury; Pulyerbatoh;
Worthbn; Cluit; WsLLiNaTOir. Gt Owler.
WOODCHVCK, sb. Oicinus viridis, Gieen Woodpecker.— Clun. SeeHaihow.
WOODEV, adj, f pec. stnpid; dull of understanding, and awkward as a consequence. Com. ' I should never a
trusted a job like that to sich a
*ii6den fellow as 'im.' This use of the term wooden seems to retain a lingering sense of the old word
wood^ mad, or of unsound or infirm
mind, frequently found in the early writers. Compare —
* What schulde he studio, and make himselyen woody Uppon a book in cloystre alway to powre.'
Chaucer, The Prologue, 1. 184, ed. Moiris.
In the Wykliffite Version, Festus said to Paul, 'many lettris tumen thee to woodne$Be.^ — Acts xxyi 24.
* Woods or madde. Amen$ . . .' — Prompt Parv,
* ATtiens, mad, void of reason, or sence, ivithotU wU or underfktnd- ing' [= stupid = woodenl. — Etym. Lot. Did.
*A.Sax. wdd; Gh>th. vdda; O.H.Qerm. wuoier; O.Ioel. <5i5r; wood, mad.'— Strat.
WOODFIHT [wuod-fint], 8h. the place where the deft wood for fiies is kept — ^Ellbsmbre.
Compare Hnt = find with * Findit, tosl&f, todeaf,' and * Findm, todselan,* which occur in a Vocdbuiuryy zL
cent, in Wr. vocaba, toL ii. p. 37.
WoodfiU — iroo<£/?nt— Newport.
WOODTAPPER, sb. Picas minor, the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. — Bridgnorth.
WOOD Win II [wei'nd], sb. Lonicera Peridpmefium, common Honey- suckle; Woodbine. — Corvb Dale.
' Vivoma,* glossed ' wudu-winde,* is found in an Anglo-SaMm Vocabulary, x. orxi. cent., in Wr. vocabs.,
vol. i. p. 286. See ' Woodbine * $ub
voce Wrathe.
WOOLEBT [wul-ur't], sb. an owl.— Clun. Cf. Solert.
WOOLLY-BEAB, same as Tommy-tailor, q. y. — Newport.
WOBCH [waur'*ch], v. a. to cause pain ; to irritate. — Shrewsbury. (1) * This 'ere tuth worchea me above a
bit* (2) * 'Er worched the poor chap
despertly.' Cf. Warch.
WOBD OF A SOBT, phr. an admonition ; a rebuke,—* I gid 'im a word of a sort.* Com.
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WOSK-BSATTLE, adj\ industrious ; diligent ; inclined to work.— PuLVEBBATOH. ' Yo* bin al'ays despert
toark-hratUe to^rt night — ketchin'
the day by the lag-end.'
< Wdrck^hrattU, fond of work. Lane.,' in Pegob.
WORK r THE BOF, phr, to work in a band.— Collibbt ; M. T. See Bond (4), also Bondsmen.
WOBBT-WHEAT, sb. Ranunculus arvSntis, Com Crowfoot.— Weit LiNGTOir, High ErcaU. See Devil's
Curry-comb.
WOBSEVy V. a, to make worse, — ' Yo'n wffsened that a good djel, yo'd'n better a lef it be.'— Whitohukoh ; Ellssheee.
W0B8EE, adj\ worse — a double comparative. Com.
' York. Damsel of France, I think I have you fast :
A goodly prize, fit for the devil's grace I
See, how the ugly wench doth bend her brows, As if with Circe she would chanse my shape
I Pucelle, Changed to a toareer shape
thou canst not be.'
1 King Henry VL, V. iii. 36.
Mr. Halliwell observes of woraer that, it ' is still in use.' See (Grammar Outlines, Adjectiva (irregtUar
eompart8on$),
WOUT [wou*t], V, n. to incline on one side so as to fall ; to turn over. — Pulverbatoh. 'That stack's bin
cavin* this ffood bit, an' las' night
it wotUed o'er.' Of. Waut, also Boot-wouted.
WEACKET, sb. brunt ; consequences. — Pulverbatoh ; Wem ; Ellesmere. * Yo' jest do whad I tell yo',
an' Pll stan* the wracket,'
WRAVO [r'ang-], adj. wrong. — ^Pulverbatoh ; Church Strbtton. * Yo' bin tellin' the lady wrang,* said a
woman at Church Stretton, coming forth
from her cottage to correct a neighbour, whom she had overheard giving, what she Mlieved to be,
erroneous information upon a certain
point.
* Wallace ansuerd, said ; " thow art in the wrang,** '
Henry the Minstrel (a.d. 1461, circa), W^aUace, Bk. I. Specim, Eng, Lit., vL L 398.
' The Poets, too, a venal ffang,
Wi' rhymes weel-tunr d and ready. Wad
gar you trow ye ne'er do wrang, But ay
unerring steady.
On sic a day.' Bobert Bxtrns, Poems,
p. 36, 1. 25.
* Wrangy O.Icel. rangr.* — Strat.
WEATCH [r*ach*], sb. a term, or form of address, employed to express the feelings when pity and
affection are combined = wretch. —
Pulverbatch. *God elp thee wratchf bist'ee aumust froze? Come to the fire an' warm thee an' a
tuthree broth.'
WEATfl[E [r'ai'dh], sb. the twisted band of tough twigs—' withsj'
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as they are called— which goes-round a 'besoio.'— -Pulvekba.TCH. *Tfae Maister ^d five shillin' far a dozen birch
besoms fur the bam—tbey wun capital
good Tins, an' the wrtUheB 56n do agen, fur they bin made o' 'oneysuckle withs.' Compare —
' He bar a bordun I-bounde * wi^ a brod lyste, In A ivepe-bondes tvy$e ' I-wrtthm aboute.
PierB Pl,^ Text A., pass. tL L 9—
where 'we^fehonde * means Woodbine (Honeysuckle) ; and compare also ' Woodhinde, binde-weede, or vfithiewinde,
because it windes abont other
plantes.' — Minsheu, in Skbat's NoteSf p. 145, ed. K E. T. 8.
A.S. wrai^ turcei, what is twisted, a wreath. Of. With (2). See With (1). See also Woodwind.
WRECKLnrO. See Seckling.
WREKIir DOVE, ab, Turtur aurUus, Turtle Dove.— Wbllinotoit. Called Wrekin Dove because, while known to
be a scarce bird in many narts of
England, it habitually frequented the large woods about tne Wrekin.
WSIT [r^it*], pret wrote. — Pulvebbatgh. Qy. com. 'I've sen* many a letter for 'er to Jack Ven 'e wuz
a-sodgerin', but 'e neyer vnit to 'er,
as I know on.' Writy a contraction of the participle writtenf was formerly in good use as a
preterite.
'Maria writ The letter at Sir Toby's
great importance.*
Twd/tk Night, V. I 370.
* " I writ lately to Mr. Pope," Swift says, writing to Gay.'— Thackeray's English HumourisU.
A.S. wrUcm; loel. riia, to write. Of. Wrote, below.
WRTrnrO-MAISTER, sb. ErribeHza cUrinella, the Yellow Ammer. — ^Pulvebbatgh. < I know to a
Writin^-maiBter'B nist 66th five young
uns in it,' said a Hanwood boy. The eg:g8 of this bird are dotted
and scribbled all over, somewhat m the
fasmon of a child's early attempts at
writing, whence the name Writing^maister, See BlackaTnith,
WEOSTLE [I'osi], v. «., var. pr, to strive ; to struggle, — to wrestle. Q,y. com. 'Yo' oonna ate all that,
Jack.' *Pm welly bos^n, Missis, but PU
toros'le wuth it.' The participle, torosUing^ is used to express an idea of size or
strength, — ' a great big, urroB'liv^
fellow.'
WROTE, pret, for part, past, written, — ^ I've wrote to teU 'er the raps.' Com. So Shakespeare has it : —
' LuoiuB, Thanks, royal sir.
My emporer hath wrote, I must from hence.'
Cymheline, HI. v. 3. Of. Writ, above.
WTJK, «ft. an oak. — Shrewsbury; Pulvbrbatoh; Church Strktton. Qy. com. ' The Squire 's levellin' the vnik
this 'ear, but I 66nder as 'e dunna a
some o' them owd rundels down.' See W (3) in Orammar Outlines {coneona'nJbB, &c.) for this
and the following words.
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WnLL, will. See GrammAr Onttines, p. Ixxx.
' Pome out the wine without restraint or stay.
Foore out to all that vmU,'
Sfensbb, ^nthalamian, L 252.
WULLEB. See WoUer.
WTJBrTBOST. See Whoftr-frost
WUTH [wuth-l, sb. an oath. — Shsbwbbubt; Pulvbrbatoh. Qy. com. * 111 tak my wuth as theer inna-d-a
better trottin' mar* gwuz the r5oad
than that o' the Maister's.'
WUTKIL, sb. oatmeal. Qy. com.
WUTS, dt, oats. Qy. com.
YAL [yaa'l], ah ale. — Bridgnorth. 'Them chaps wun aumust tossicated wi' ycU afore a wenten i' the
Jarge [George] an' Dragon, an' bygum !
a gotten some sjitgrits theer to top-up uke ; an' it made 'em right drunk, but the Missis 'ad 'em
turned out then, no danger ! ' Gl
Yeftl.
TALLOW [yal'u*], adj, yellow. Com. * I dunna like the waiter from the pit fur weohin', it mak's the
clo'es as yaUow as a Meadow Bout '
[^Marsh Marigold].
*Theise cocodrilles ben serpentes, yiUme and rayed aboven, and han four feet, and schorfce thyes and erete
navies, as dees or talouns.' — Sm John
Mandsvillb [a.d. 1356], Travels, p. 198, in HaL
' A.Saz. geolo; O.H.Gherm. gdwer, yellow. '—Stbat.
YALLOW-WOET, eb, a mild form of jaundice : a severer type is called the ' black jaunders.' Com. ' Poor
owd Mr. Jandrell o' the G^ve is very
bad now ; 'e's 'ad the yaXhw-wcri a lung wilde, an' it's turned to the blaok-jaunders.' Compare —
'For the ydouhsoui^tt that men callin the jaundyB, Take hard Speynioh sope and a Utille stale ale in a
coppe, and rubbe the sope ajens the
coppe botum tylle the ale be qwyte.' — M8, Bloane^ 7, £ 73, in Hal.
See Jaunders.
YAPEHBY [yaap'ni'], ab, a halfpenny. — Bridgnorth.
YAB [yaaV], (1) sb, hair, — 'The child mun 'ave *er yar cut shorty I doubt.' Com.
(2) ih. a cider hair, — ^a sieve used in the process of cider-making. — Glee Hills.
YAJIBALIST, sb, a quack whose materia medica is comprehended in his use of herbs ; a herbalist. Com. '
Well, fur my part I hanna much opinion
o' quack doctors; theer's nuthin' like tne Firmary, w'eer theer's plenly o' lam'd men ; an' if
sich as Clement an' Burd canna cure, I
shouldna a much fiuth in a yarbcUist.^
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YABBS, ah. pi. herba Coiil ' The May-month's the best time to get yarht; I aid owd Lacy busy alung the
diche-bouks the totiker oay. * Aye,
'e's mighty chyer, tiiey teUen me, an' onres a power o* folks.'
YARD-CO ALy ah, a good coal for manufacturing purposes. — Colubby ; M. T. See 9ub voce Top-Goal.
YABE, adj. eager ; ready. — Cleb Hills.
'wan he com hom, he wore yarty Grimes
sones, forto fare In-to ^e se, fishes
to gete, pat hauelok mithe wel of
ete.'
ffavdok the Dane, L 1891.
' Pompey and I hope, if you have occasion to use me for
your own turn, you shall find me yare.^ — Meantre for Meaguire, IV. ii. 62.
Jamieson has ' Yare. Beady, alert, in a state of preparation.' 'A.Sax. gearu; O.Sax. garu; O.H.Gkrm.
gar{e)wer; O.IoeL gorr; yare, ready.'
— Str^lt.
YASEWIHDS ryaa*r'winz and yaer^'winz], sh., oha. a machine for holding yam intended to be made into skems
or wound into baUs.— PiTLVE&BATOH.
The vareufinds consisted of a reel and stand. The reel was a stock something like the nave of
a wheel, with four arms, inserted
crosswise, i. e. at opposite diameters ; these arms were per- forated at regular distances from the end,
to receiye the tall wooden pins round
which the yam was wound. By means of the holes— about fiye in each arm — the mns could be
adjusted to ' slippinss,' or skeins,
of yarious lengths. The stand consisted of a smfdl olock. forming an apex, as it were, to the three
legs which supported it, ana haying in
its centre a piyot upon which the reel rotated. (A tiipod, to serye as a stand for the reel, would
sometimes be rudely xashioned by
cutting a three-forked branch to the requisite length, and
inyertang it) ^e whole afiair was
about two feet and a half from the ground.
'When spinning was a household indxiStrj, yareioinde supplemented the wheel ; the yam spun and twisted on the
latter bein^ wound on the reel, as the
succeeding process by which the 'slippmgs' were formed. Linen-yam, when it had been made
into 'shppings,' was bleached, and
aiterwards returned to the yarewinde, from which it was wound into balls for the cottage
weayer. Spinning-wheels and yareunnda
were in use about 1840, and probably at a later date still. Walter de Biblesworth — xiii. cent —
dkcoursmg to ' dame Muriel' upon
spinning, says— '
' A wudree ore alez ; E yostre filoe
li wudez.'
* Wudrta ' is ^ssed ' a yar-i^nc2eZ,' and the second line, ' wynde thi yam.* — See Wr. yocabs., yoL i. p. 157.
*iame wyndel, .... (or ya,rwyndyJ). OirgUlua. "-4 gyrua, dicitur gyrgiUtMf inatrumerUwn femtneum,
quod alio nomine diciiur volutoriumj
quia vertendo in gyrum inde JUa devolvuntur. Filum de colo ducitur in fveum ; a fuao in aiahrum^
vel traductorium ; ab alabro in
gyrgillum vel devoltUorium ; a gyrgillo in glomic€llu7n.**—CAm.* — Prompt. Parv. and Notes, pp. 536, 188.
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* QirgiUuB. A reele to winde thread on, windt Uades* — Did. Efym, Lot.
See Tamades, also Tarringles, below. Gf. Swifts. See Slip-
TABLY ryaayii'], adj. and adv. early. Com. ' They bin mighty yarly folks, them new-oomers at Aisoott,
an' looken as ard as muntin tits '
[mountain ponies].
* Nyght and day he ys in sorowe. Late
on eyyn, yirly on morowa
M8, Cantah. Ft iL 38, f. 148, in Hal.
Of. Arly.
TABV [yaaVn], (1) v. a. to earn. Com. 'Wen I could yam money, I didna mind spendin', but now I
canna get nuthin', I '&ye to be
oarfuL'
* When raine is a let to thy dooin^ abrode,
set threshers a threshing to laie on good lode : Thresh deane ye must bid them, though
lesser they yam, and looking to
thriue, haue an eie to thy bame.'
TussEB, Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Htubandrie [November],
Of. ^
(2) »b. Ardea cin^ea, the Heron.— Whttchubch, TiUtock, The Heron frequents the Brown Mobs between
Whitchurch and Tilstock [1874].
YABVACLES, sb., ohs. a tuming-ieel for yam to be wound upon. — Newpobt. YarnadeB were, for all intents and
purposes, the same as the yarewinda
preyiously described, q. v. ; but they were somewhat simpler in construction, the reel being
merely two flat pieces of wood laid
one over the oUier, — ^Hke a S. Aindrew's Ooss, in form, — with a hole in the middle to enable it to rotate
on a piyol The arms were perforated
like those of the yarewinda, and for the same reasons ; the tall ^gs holding the yam l>eing fitted
into the holes at the compass requir^
by tiie skein. A pedestal, or stand of some kind, haying a piyot in the centre, seryed for the reel to
work upon. See Yarringles, oelow.
YABVEST. See mib voce Earnest
YASEIHOLES, same as Yamacles, above.— Wellinoton. Qy. com.
Bandle Holme enumerates amongst 'Things belonging to Spinning,* * Yarringle blades. Foot or Stand, and
Yarringh Pegs, or PinnsJ* — Academy of
Armory^ Bk. IH. ch. iii. p. 106.
Bailey--ed. 1782 — giyes ' Yarringks, Yarringle Blades, an Instru- ment from which Hai^ of yam are wound into
Clews or Balls.'
* Hoc nirgilium, a par gamwyndil-blades,' is enumerated amongst thin^ pertaining to spinning, in a
NominaiU, xy. cent., in Wr. yocaba,
yol. 1. p. 217.
From AS. gearn, yam ; and unndan, to wind. See Yarringks, in Hal. See Yarewinda.
YASK [yaas'k], sb. a term used to express the sound made by a
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violent eflbii to get quit of something in the throat. — Whitohitbch. ' B^:iun I 'e wuz aumust ohoked, 'e gid
sicb, a y<uk,*
'Lyeake, I gyre a noyse out of my Btomaoke,/e engUnUe.' — ^Pals- grave, in FTaTi
A.S. giscian, to sob.
YATJLfyaui], v. a. to pull, or drag roughly ; to haul. — Clbb Hilu. See El (2) in Qrammar Outlines {coMonanta,
&o.).
YAWP [yau'p], eb. the nape of the neck. — Clbb Hills. Cf. Scn^ &c.
YEAL. See stib voce Ale.
YEAH [ee-n and yee-n], v. n, to bring forth lambs. Com. "Ow bin*ee' gettin' on o6th yore ship?' *OhI
rarly; we'n got four an' twenty lombs
d6th ten yeows, most on 'em 'ad n three, an' the rest double-oouples, an' theer's eighteen to ean
yet ; but we'n lost two.'
* So many days my ewes have been with young ;
So many weeks ere the poor fools will eanJ
3 Henry VL, IL v. 36.
* Eawes readie to yeone, oraues ground
rid cleane.'
TusSBK, Januariea abstract, ed. E. D. S., p. 73.
Bay gives as a ' Somerset* Proverb, * She stamps like an Ewe upon yeaning.' — p. 268. See * Enyfiy with Way's Note, in Prompt,
Parv., p. 140. ' A.Saz. eanian ; Du.
o<men, to yean, lamb.' — St&at.
YEAB [yee-h'r' and ee'h'r'], sb, pi. years, — ' They'n bin i' that 'ouse twelve year nex' Miamas.' Com.
< « For sche hade bromt hem of bale * botye," >ei seide, " & i-leng^ed here lix * mani long
ser^."'
WiUiam of Palerne, L 1(H0.
' Thre yeer and more how lasteth her vitaille P '
Chattcbb, B. 499 (Six-text ed.}, Skeat
A.S. gedr ; loeL dr ; Qoth. jer, a year. The A.S. plural is also gedr. See Grammar Outlines [nouns of time,
&o.), p. xliiL
YEAT [yi'*u'tl, «6. and v, a. heat ; to heat — ^Pulvbrbatch. ' Theer^s some sense i querd-56d fur the oven, it
ouds the yedt, but this poor brash
keeps yo' on fiUin' an' does no good.' Gf. Yet.
YEATH, YETH [yi'*ath], Church Strbtton. [yeth-], Shrbwsbubt ; Pulvbrbatoh; Olun; Wbm. Qy. oom., sb,
heath. *'Weerdidthe starm o'ertak* vo'
? ' ' Jest i' the middle o' Preee Yeth, an' no shelter o' ne'er-a aide. See example sub voce
Faggit (1). A.S. hchs, heath.
YEB [yed*], sb. a head. Com. * See, John, 'ow the Maister's im- |
proved yore ved a'ready I ' This observation, addressed to ' John ' by his wife, did not refer to his own ' yed,*
but to the Ghoaf s Head on an intended
sign-board — ^half painted, and much misrepresented, by John himself— which, the * Maister '
chancing to see, and being moved to
amend, was at that moment dashing in, with Irue artistic skill and requisite knowledge of blaeonry.
See Head.
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TEDABT. See Edward.
TED-COLLAA. See Head-collar.
TED-OUT. See Head-ont
TEB-STALL. See Head-stalL
TEDSTAUIIO, adj, headstrong; stubborn. Com. ''£'s a yedr strung young rascal, but 'e's gwein to a
Maister as 561 bend 'im, or break
'im.'
YELLOP [yael"up], t?. n. to bark, howl, cry, as dogs do — ^to yelp.
— Wobthkn; Wem. A.S. gdpan^ to yelp.
Of. YowL
YELLOW HOMBEK, sh, the YeUow Ammer.— Ludlow; Wbm. See Homber, also Blacksmith. G£ Gtolden
Amber.
YELVE [yel-v and yil-vl, eh a garden-fork. — ^Wbm; Whitchurch; Elleshebb. a North Border word.
' The PartB of a Yelve. The Barr, or Gross Bar. The Tangs, or Forks. The Socket, for the Stall to go in.
The Staile. Te kaspe^s the top part on
which the man holds? — Academy of Armory t Bk. III. ch. Tiu. p. 337.
Gf. Sharevil.
YEOW [you* and yi'ou*], sb. a ewe. Com. See example ttub voce
* Or, if he wanders up the howe. Her
living image in her yotve Gomes
bleating to him, owre the knowe,
For bits o' bread.'
Robert Burns, Poem$, p. 33, L 22, c. 2.
' A.Sax. eaum; O.H.G^erm. avn; O.Du. ouwe, oie, a ewe.* — Stbat.
YEP. See Heap.
YEPPEB [yep't], part. adj. heaped. Com. ' I put a yepped box o' coal o' tiie fife now jest.'
YEBBXWIO [yaer'i'wig], eb. an earwig. — Pulyerbatch. Qy. com. * Mother, does a yerriwig bite or sting ? '
* Ne'er-a one, dunna yo* see as it's
gotten pinsons fur a tail ? — so it pinches.'
' In a Vocabulary, HarL MS. 1002, is found, '* aurioiw, Anglice a yrwygge,"* — ^Way, m Prompt. Parv., p.
143.
See Erriwig, also Arrawig.
YEBTH [yur'th*], sb. earth ; soil. Qy. com. * Whad bin 'ee cartin' yerih fur, Dick — is dirt sca'ce at yore
place P ' * The Maister's '&Tin' a
mount [mound] made round the lawn, to grow primmiroses, or Bummat.'
* 1690. Paid for carringe the verihe out where the organes stood, yj'.' — Churehwardena* AccounU, S. Mary's,
Shrewsbury.
' Than the kynge sa^rde, ''is my sonne deed or hurt, or on the yertlhe felled?" *'no, sir," quod
the knyght, '*but he is hardely
matched, wherefore he bathe nede of your ayde." '^Lobd
Berners (A.D. 1623), The BatHe of
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' Nay, eyeu the yirth itsel does cry,
For E'mbrugh wells are grutten dry.*
EOBBBT BUKKS, PoefTM, p. 137, 1. 9, c. 2.
A.S. eoHSe, eaiih, ground. TBS
[yaes-], Newport, [yaa'sl, Chuboh Stretton. [ei-s], Church
STRETTON, LeebotVHXHl. [1*88- J, PULVBRBATCH ; WORTHBN; ClUK;
Oswestry. Qy. com., adv. A.S. gese; gue, yea. See E (7) (8) (10) (12) in Grammar Outlines {voweU^ &o.).
TET [yaet*], same as Yeat. — ^Wbm j Ellesmbrb.
TIT [yit* and it], adv, yet, — * 'E hanna bin theer jfit as I know on.' Qy. com.
' He neyere yit no yileinye ne sayde
In al his m, nnto no maner wight.'
GHArcBR, The Frologuey L 70, ed. Morris.
'. . . . wommanP myn our cam not ^J — John ii. 4, Wycliffite Version, a.d. 1388. A.S. git (with negtxtive), yet.
TOCKEL [yok'hl], sb. the Green Woodpecker. — Ellesmere. See Ecall.
TOK [yok*], sb. a yoke, such as is put round the neck of a pig, to prevent it breaking through a hedge. —
^Pitlyerbatch. 'Aye, yo* bin lucky,
like Turn 'Odges, as lost nVe pund, an' fund a pigs y^' This is proyerbially said of any one who is
unfortunate in sustaming losses.
< Boweth your nekke vnder that blisful yok Of soueraynetee, nought of seruyse, Which that men clepeth spousail or wedlok.'
Ghaucbb, B. lis (Six-text ed.), Skeat
* y)kke. Jugttm.^ — Prompt. Parv.
' A.Saz. geoCf ioc; Gbth./uA;, a yoke.' — Strat.
TOE-FABM, sb. the best farm on an e8tate.-^PuLyBRBAT0H. 'I 'spect owd Price made a good bit o' money
theer — ^it wuz al'ays said to be the
yok'/arm on the Lordship, an' 'e 'eld it aboye forty year.*
* A little farm or manor in some parts of Kent is called a yokktJ— Kennett, in Hal.
TOilIjnO [yauk'in*], part. adj. making a noise in the throat as if about to yomit ; retching, and such like. —
PuiiVERBATCH. ' I think the waggoner
'ad a drop too much las' night, I 'eard 'im yokin' T the back foud.'
' Ful pale he was, for-dronken, and nought red. He yoxeth, and he speketh thurgh the nose.*
Chaitoer, C. r., 1. 4149.
See * ^xyn\'' with Wat's Note, in Prompt, Parv., p. 639.
TOSD, (1) sb. a small enclosure of land contiguous to a house.—
PuLYERBATCH. ' Bun to the yord an' see if the gis an' gullies bin all right.*
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* A fferd sche hadde, enclosed al aboute
Witii stikkee, and a drye dich 'withoute, In which she hadde a ook, highte
Ghauntecleer, In al the lond of
crowyng nas his peer.'
Ohaucbb, The Nonne Freites TaU^ L 27, ed. Moms.
* jerd, or yord, OrtiM,* — Prompt, Faro,
A.S. gtardy an enclosure.
(2) fib. in composition — ^the enclosure round about a Church — ^the church-yord : the form is an old one thus.
— Shbewsbuby ; Pulyeb- BATCH. Qy. com.
' I tell yo' whad I think — ^poor Dick's cuff soun's mighty like Churton Ohurch-yord' [». e. ' a
Churchyard cough '].
' This yeare one Degory Waters oi Salop draper dyeed the xxviij^A day of Julii A* 1477 and was buryed in
Sainct Mary's churche in Salop in
Trynytie Chanpel he in hys lyffe tyme buylded all the Alms- howsen in St Marys churche yorde and
dwellyd in the Almeshowse hall there
amongst them and wold also kneele amo'gst them in the same churche in a fayre longe pewe made for
them and hym selfe.' — Early ChronideB
of Shrewsbury {Taylor ibfS.), in TransaHstio^is of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural
History Society.
YOSXy adj. shrewd ; sharp, as in driving a bargain : the term is
generally understood in a sinister sense. — Pulverbatoh. ' Oh ! 'e
munna think to eet o'er me athatn, if Vs yorky 'ell fine me york too.'
Compare * Ya'Nt. Sharp, acute, quick,' whidi Mr. Halliwell gives
as a Devon word.
TOBH, ah. yarn. Com. ' I like the yom scoured afore it's knit, but the owd knitters sen it grains best i'
the grace,' «. e. works more smoothly
with the grease in it, as it was spun.
* A.Sax, gearn; O.Icel., O.H.Germ, gam, yam.' — Stbat.
YOWL [you'l], V. n. to howl, as dogs do. Com. * If yo' tie'n that dog up, 'e'U yowl all night, an' I shanna
get a wink o' sleep.'
' The kyng passed therby as the greyhound was that kept his lord and his maystre, and the greyhound aroos
agayn hem, and bygan to yowle upon
hem.' — MS. Bodleian, 546, in Hal.
' A dog winna yowl, an' ye hit bun wi' a bane.' — North Country Proverb.
Grose has ' Yowl. To cry or howl. N.'
* Low Germ. Jdlen, jaulen, yowl, howL' — Strat. Cf. Yellop.
YOWLIVO, part. adj. crying vociferously. — Shrewsbury ; Pulvbr- batoh; Wellington. Qy. com. 'Whad bin yo'
yowlin' about? I'll gie yo' summat to
cry fur direcly, as'U mak' it run aisy
fur yo'.'
YOWP [you"p], V. n. and sb. to give a short bark ; the bark itself.
— Pulvekbatcjh ; Oswestry. Qy. com. *
Nip 's a rar' doff ; 'e gid a bit on a
yowp at the 5dd-pil jest now, an* I knowed 'e smelt summat, or 'e $5dna yowp athatn, so I begun to pool
the 55d about, an' out bouted a great
big rot ; 'e soon fettled that, an' went in an' £Bit another out — Oh I thinks I, theer's a nist 'ere,
an' by-gum, theer wuz, an' thirteen
young una.'
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ZAD, ZOD [zad], Wobthen. [zod*], Com. the letter Z. 'The zoda be despert aukert I * exclaimed a
young Bervant-^l from Bitter- ley
(near liudlow), taking, apparently, a retrospectiye view of the dimoulties surmounted in learning her
letters, under the tuition of her
Mistress, who had set about to teach her to read and write, on finding that she could do neither (1859).
ZODICAL, ah. Zadkiel, used elliptically for * ZadkieTs Almanac^ — Shrewsbttby ; Atgham. Qy. com. This
Almanac, with its Cabalist- ical
characters, its Hieroglypnics and Prophetic Allusions, is the Oracle of the peasantry. It would seem as if
somehow they had confounded Zadkiel, the
name of their Prophet, with Zodiacal^ that which pertains to the signs of the seasons, in their term
ZodiocU,
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ALLET, (1) sb, a garden-path. — Pulverbatgh. <Yo' can play i' the gardin if yo'n mind to keep on the
alley ^ 'cause yore Faither *8 dug the
ground.' Tusser calls a path or walk an alley : —
' sawe dust epred thick makes alley
trick.'
Septembers dbtiract, ed. E. D. S., p. 33.
Fr. (UUe, a passage, a walk ; from aller^ to go.
St) Bh. a choice kind of marble, which is highly valued by boys, is made of white or cream-coloured marble,
dom.
AHVOTy V, a, to damage ; to spoil, — ^ That theer bit o' loche 'as annoyed my spade.' — ^WsLLiKaTON. Tusser
employs annoying in the seuse of
iigurmg as follows : —
< Make riddance of carriage, er yeere go about,
for spoiling of plant that is newUe come out*
To carter (with oxen) this message I bring, leaue oxen abrode for anoieng the spring.'
Aprils husbandries ed. R D. S., p. 105 —
where ' anoieng the spring ' means damaging the young shoots. See Note. — Ibid.
AVTELTTTE fan'ti'loot], sh., oheJ a tea-party at a cottage, got up for the benent of the goodwife. —
Ellesmere, Nessdiff, * Now then,
girls, if yo'n look sharp an' get yore work done, yo' sha*n g56 to
the anteltUe ' [1840]. Perlutps a
ludicrous corruption of interlude.
AVLD [auid], adj\ shrewd ; sly ; cunning. — Worthen. (1) « I wuz too auld fur 'im — I bested 'im.' (2) ' Our
young Tum looked pretty auld at me
w'en the paas'n said 'e supposed theer'd be a Ghns*nin' fur *im afore lung.'
BABBEL, sb., ohs, an appendage proper to the little wheel, — a reel round which the linen yarn was wound as it
was spun. It was, in foi*m, somewhat
like a dumb-bell of slender proportions. Hie
cylinder was hollow, to admit the spindle, and one of its
circular
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