Chapter 4

"Crowk was his hair, and as gold it shon And strouted as a fan large and brode"

(Chaucer, Miller's Tale)

Stub-shot _s._ the portion of the trunk of a tree which remains when the tree is not sawn through

Stun-pole _s._ a stupid fellow

Stwon _s._ stone Stwonen _adj._

Suant _adj._ even, regular, applied to rows of beans or corn; grave as applied to the countenance (Fr. _suivant_)

Sull _s._ plough-share (A S _sul_)

Suma _s._ a small cup made of blue and white stoneware

Surge _v._ and _s._ to bear heavily on, impetuous force

Swallow-pears _s._ service-pears, sorb-apples

Swather, or Swother _v._ to faint (A S _sweothrian_)

Sweem _v._ to swoon. Sweemy, Sweemish _adj._ faint (Dutch _swiim_)

Sweet-harty _v._ to court. Sweet-harting _s._ courtship

Swile _s._ soil, also Swoil-heap

Swill, Swell, Zwell _v._ to swallow

Tack _s._ a shelf, bacon-rack. Clavy-tack chimney-piece

Taffety _adj._ nice in eating

Tallet _s._ the space next the roof in out-houses (Welsh _tavlod_)

Tame _v._ to cut, to have the first cut (Fr. _entamer_)

Tanbase _s._ unruly behaviour

Tan-day _s._ the second day of a fair

Tang _s._ to tie; that part of a knife which passes into the haft

Tave _v._ to throw the hands about wildly

Tavering _adj._ restless in illness

Tawl-down _v._ to strike or smooth down a cat's back

Teak _s._ a whitlow

Teap _s._ a point, peak

Teart _adj._ sharp, sour, painful

Ted _v._ to turn hay or flax to dry. Ted-pole the pole used for the purpose

Teg _s._ a last year's lamb not sheared

Teem _v._ to pour out

Terrible _adv._ intensitive, ex. Terrible good

Thic, Thicky, Thicky-there, Thickumy, Thickumy-there _pron._ that (Chaucer _thilk_)

Thiller _s._ the shaft horse

Thill-harness opposed to trace harness

Tho _adv._ then, ex. I couldn't go tho, but I went afterwards

Thong _v._ to stretch out into viscous threads or filaments

Thongy _adj._ viscid, ropy

Thornen _adj._ made of thorns

Thurt _v._ to thwart, to plough crossways

Thurt-handled _adj._ thwart-handled

Thurt-saw _s._ a thwart-saw, a cross-cut saw

Tilty _adj._ irritable, _i.e._, easily tilt or lifted up

Timmern _adj._ wooden

Timmersom _adj._ timorous

Tine _v._ to light, ex. Tine the candle (root of tinder) _v._ a tooth as of rake or spear (A S _tine_)

Tine-in _v._ to shut, to enclose. Tinings _s._ enclosures (A S _tynan_)

Tip-and-tail heels over head

Titty-todger _s._ a wren

To appended to adverbs, as where-to, to-home, to-year, to-week, as to-day

Toak _v._ to soak

Toggers _s._ the handle-pieces of the scythe

Toke _v._ to glean apples

Toll _v._ to decoy, entice, ex. A bit o' cheese to toll down the bread wi'

Toll-bird _s._ a decoy bird

Tongue, or Tonguey _v._ to talk immoderately

Tossity _adj._ drunken ('tossicated)

Tranter _s._ a carrier. Coal-tranter a beggar

Trapes _s.v._ a slattern, to walk in the dirt

Trendle _s._ a brewer's cooler of an oval form

Trig _v._ to prop up _adj._ sound, firm, well in health, neat, tidy

Trig-to _v._ to open, set open, as a door

Trill _v._ to twirl

Trop intj. used by riders to excite a dull horse

Tuck _v._ to touch

Tucker _s._ a fuller, also Tucking-mill

Tun _s._ upper part of the chimney

Tunnegar _s._ a wooden funnel

Tup _s._ a ram

Turmets, Turmits _s._ turnips

Turve _s._ turf

Tut _s._ a hassock

Tutty _s._ flower. Tutty-more flower-root

Tut-work, Tuck-work _s._ piece-work

'T'war it was

Twibill _s._ a sort of axe with bill of two forms

Twily _adj._ restless

Twink, or Pink _s._ a chaffinch

Twi-ripe, Twi-ripy _adj._ unequally ripe

Twistle, Twizzle _s._ that part of a tree where the branches divide from the stock

Under-creepin _adj._ sneaking

Ungain (from gain) unhandy

Unkit _et. id. adj._ lonely, dismal (A S _cwyde_, speech; _uncwyde_, solitary, having no one to speak to)

Unray _v._ to undress, ex. I do ston to ray, and I do ston to unray

Untang _v._ to untie

Up, Uppy _v._ to arise, to get up

Uppin-stock, Lighting-stock _s._ a horse-block

Uppings _s._ perquisites

Upsighted _s._ a defect of vision rendering a person unable to look down

Ur, Hur _pron._ he, she, or it

Urn, Hurn _v._ to run (A S _yrnan_)

Utchy _pron._ I (Ger. _ich_)

Vage, Vaze _v._ to move about or run in such a way as to agitate the air

Valch _v._ to thrust with the elbow or fist

Vang _v._ to take or catch, to receive as well as earn wages; ex. To vang a fire, to vang money; also to stand sponsor (A S _fangen_)

Vare _s._ weasel or stoat. Vair ermine

Vare _v._ to bring forth young, applied to pigs (from farrow)

Varmint _s._ a vermin

Vaught _part._ fetched, hence the proverb

vur vaught dear a-bought

Vawth _s._ a bank of dung or earth prepared for manure; litter of pigs

Vay, or Vie _v._ to go, to succeed, to turn out well (Fr. _va'tail_) ex. How doe't vay wi'ye?

Veelvare, Veldevere _s._ field-fare

Vell _s._ a part of the stomach of a calf used for making cheese; membrane

Vent, Vent-hole _s._ the wrist of a shirt, the button-hole

Verdi, Verdit _s._ opinion, ex. Thats my verdit therefor I zay 't

Vester _s._ a pin used to point out the letters to children learning to read

Vier _s._ fire

Vig _v._ to rub gently by a quick motion of the finger forward and backward (Dutch _ficken_)

Vinnid, Vinny _adj._ mouldy, as bread; humoursome, as a spoiled child; affected

Vitten, Vitty _adj._ fitly, featly, properly applied _s._ a whim or pretence

Vleer _s._ flea

Vlother _s._ incoherent talk, nonsense

Voccating _adj._ going about chattering in an idle manner

Vore-right _adj._ blunt, rude, impertinent

Voss, Voth _s._ a side furrow

Vouce _adj._ strong, nervous

Vug _v._ to strike with the elbow _s._ a blow with the elbow

Vyer _s._ the fair, ex. Guaine to vyer?

W an initial W is often pronounced as in Welsh _oo_, ex. Walter, oolter; witness, ootness; Wells, ools

Wallet _s._ brushwood, bramble-wood

Wamble, Wammel _v.n._ to move in an awkward manner, applied chiefly to machinery

Want, Wont _s._ a mole

Want-wriggle _s._ mole-track

War _v. pret. of the verb_ "_to be_" I war, he war, we war, &c.

Wash-dish _s._ the wag-tail

Wassail _v._ drinking success to the apple crop

Way-zaltin _s._ a play in which two persons standing back to back interlace each others arms, and by bending forward alternately raise each other from the ground

Weepy _adj._ moist, abounding in springs

Welch-nut _s._ walnut (Ger. _welsche-nuss_)

Well _s._ a running spring, a source (Ger. _quelle_, as distintinguished from a wenk or wink)

Weng _s._ the front rack of the sull

Wevet _s._ a spider's web

Whippences _s._ bodkins or swingle-bars of a plough

Whipper-snapper _s._ a little, active, nimble fellow

Whipswhiles _s._ a short interval, as between the strokes of a whip

Whister-twister _s._ a smart blow on the side of the head

Whiver _v._ to hover, to flutter. Whiver-minded _adj._ wavering

Widow-man _s._ a widower

Wim _v._ to winnow. Wim-sheet, Wimmin-sheet, Wimmindust _s._

Windle, Windle-thrush _s._ red-wing

Wink _s._ an excavated or sunken well (Query supplied with a Winch?)

Wipes _s._ faggots for draining or fencing

Wisht _adj._ sad, untoward

Without unless, except

Woek, Wuk _s._ oak

Woeks _s._ clubs on playing cards, from their shape

Wont-heeave, Want-snap _s._ a mole-hill, mole-trap

Wood-quist _s._ wood-pigeon, cushat

Wood-wall _s._ woodpecker

Worra _s._ part of the centre of the old spinning-wheel

Wosberd, Whisbird, Whosbird _s._ a term of reproach.

Wrede _v._ to spread abroad, as wheat is said to wrede when several stalks shoot out of the ground from a single grain.

Wrick _v.s._ strain

Wride _v.n._ to stretch, to expand

Wring _s._ press, ex. A cider-wring

Writh-hurdles _s._ plated hurdles

Wrizzled, Wrizzly _adj._ shrivelled up, wrinkled

Yails _s._ the uprights in hurdles

Yal, Yalhouse, Yarm, Yel, &c. _s._ ale, alehouse, arm, eel, &c.

Yap _v._ to yelp like a cur

Yappingale, Yaffler, Yuckle _s._ woodpecker

Yeass _s._ an earthworm _pl._ yeasses

Yeo _s._ main drain of a level

Yeth _s._ hearth. Yeth-stone hearth-stone

Yoak _s._ the grease in wool

Yoaky _adj._ greasy, applied to wool as it comes from the sheep

Yokes _s._ hiccups

Yourn yours

Yow _v._ to cut the stubble short, to cut with a hook

Zam _v.a._ to heat for some time over a fire, but not to boil

Zam-sod, Zam-sodden half baked

Zand-tot _s._ sand hill

Zate _adj._ soft

Zatenfare _s._ softish, a foolish fellow

Zead _v._ for has seen

Zead _s._ seed. Zead-lip seed-lip

Zenvy _s._ wild mustard

Zinney _s._ sinews

Zwail _v._ to move about the arms extended, and up and down

Zwell _v._ to swallow

Zwodder _s._ a drowsy and stupid state of body and mind

Zwound _v._ to swoon

F. MAY, PRINTER, HIGH STREET, TAUNTON.