Part 11

=Posy=. The garden Peony, from its size.

=Pot=, or =Put=. (The latter is the usual S. Wilts form.) *(1) A tub or barrel (D.).--Obsolete. (2) A two-wheeled cart, made to tilt up and shoot its load (D.).--N. & S.W. Manure used formerly to be carried out to the fields in a pair of _pots_ slung across a horse's back. When wheels came into general use the term was transferred to the cart used for the same purpose (D.). See ~Dung-pot~.

=Pot-dung=. Farmyard manure (_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. vii).--N.W.

=Pots-and-Kettles=. Fruit of _Buxus sempervirens_, L., Box.--S.W. (Barford St. Martin, Deverill, &c.)

*=Pot-walloper= A 'pot-waller,' or person possessing a house with a 'pot-wall,' or kitchen fireplace for cooking. All such persons formerly had votes for the borough of Wootton Bassett. See _Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxiii. p. 172.

=Poult=. (1) 'A turkey poult,' a young turkey.--N. & S.W. (2) 'A perfect poult,' an awkward girl.--S.W. (Warminster.)

=Pounceful=. Masterful, self-willed. Cf. ~Bounceful~. 'He preached pouncefully,' i.e. powerfully, forcibly.--S.W.

=Powder-monkey=. (1) Damp gunpowder, moulded into a 'devil,' or cake which will smoulder slowly, used by boys for stupefying a wasp's nest. (2) Ash leaves with an even number of leaflets, worn by boys on the afternoon of May 29. See ~Shitsack Day~.

=Power=. 'A power o' volk,' a number of people. A quantity of anything.--N. & S.W.

'A's got a power of plaguy long spikes all auver's body.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 118.

=Powlts=. (1) Peas and beans grown together.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) See ~Poult~ and ~Polt~.

*=Poyn=. To pen sheep (D.).

=Prawch=. To stalk, to swagger. 'I see un come a prawchin' along up the coort.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Preterites=. A few specimens may be given, as ~craup~, or ~crope~, crept; ~drowd~, threw; ~flod~, flew; ~fot~, ~vot~, or ~vaught~, fetched; ~hod~, hid; ~hut~, hit; ~lod~, led; ~obloge~, obliged; ~raught~, reached; ~scrope~, scraped; ~slod~, slid; ~woc~, awoke; ~seed~, ~seen~, saw.

=Pretty-money=. Coins, such as old George-and-dragon crowns, or new Jubilee pieces, given to a child to keep as curiosities, not to be spent.--N.W.

=Pride=. (1) The ovary of a sow.--N.W. *(2) The mud lamprey (H.).

'_Petromyzon branchialis._ L., ... in the southern part of England is locally known as the Pride.'--SEELEY, _Fresh-water Fishes of Europe_, p. 427.

'Lumbrici ... are lyke to lampurnes, but they be muche lesse, and somewhat yeolowe, and are called in Wilshyre prides.'--_Elyotes Dictionarie_, 1559, quoted by Hal.

=Primrose soldiers=. _Aquilegia vulgaris_, L., Garden Columbine.--N.W. (Huish.)

*=Prin= it. Take it (A.H.Wr.).--N.W.

=Privet=, =Brivet=. 'To privet about,' pry into things. 'To privet out,' to ferret out anything. See ~Brevet~.

=Pronged=. A scythe-blade with a small flaw in the edge which may develop into a serious crack is said to be 'pronged.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Pronouns=. ~I~, ~he~, and ~she~ do duty as accusatives, as 'He towld I, but I bean't a-goin' to do nothen for he.' ~Her~ and ~us~ are nominatives, as 'Her be a girt vule, that her be'; 'Us be at coal-cart s'marnin.' ~Thee~ is used for both thou and thy, as 'What's thee name?' 'What's thee'se want to knaw vor?' 'Never thee mind.' ~Hyn~, or more commonly ~un~,=him, or it, as 'I seed un a-doing on't'; 'poor zowl on hyn!' This is the old _hime_, the accusative of _he_. ~A~=he, as 'How a hackers an bivers!' ~Thac~, ~Thuck~, or ~Thuck there~=that. ~Themmin~=those. ~Thic~, ~Thissum~, ~Thease~, ~Thic here~, &c.=this. ~Theesum~, or ~Theesum here~=these. Occasionally ~Theesen~ in S. Wilts. ~Thick~ and ~Thuck~ require some explanation. ~Thuck~ always=_that_, but is mainly a N. Wilts form, its place in S. Wilts being usually taken by ~Thick~. ~Thic~ or ~Thick~ often=_this_ in N. Wilts, but far more frequently=_that_,--in fact, the latter may probably now be taken as its normal meaning, although it would appear to have been otherwise formerly. In _Cunnington MS._, for instance, it is stated that 'The old terms _thic_ and _thoc_ almost constantly exclude the expressions This and That,' and similar statements are found in other authorities. In ~Thick here~ and ~Thick there~ the use of the adverb defines the meaning more precisely. As regards the neighbouring counties, it may be said that in Som. and Dors. ~thick~=_that_; while in N. Hants it never does so (see Cope's _Glossary_), always there meaning _this_. It should be noted that the _th_ is usually sounded _dth_, much as in Anglo-Saxon. ~His'n~=his; ~Hern~, or occasionally ~Shis'n~,=hers; ~Ourn~=ours; ~Theirn~=theirs; ~Yourn~=yours; ~Whosen~=whose, as 'Whosen's hat's thuck thur?' ~Mun~=them, is occasionally, but not often, used. ~Arra~, ~Arra one~, ~Arn~, &c.=any. Negatives, ~Narra~, ~Narra one~, ~Narn~, &c. 'Hev 'ee got arra pipe, Bill?' 'No, I han't got narn.' In the Pewsey Yale ~Ma~ is occasionally used for ~I~, in such phrases as 'I'll go we 'ee, shall ma?' or 'I don't stand so high as he, do ma?' About Malmesbury (and elsewhere in N. Wilts) the following forms may be noted:--~Wither~, other; ~Theasamy~, these; ~Themmy~, those; ~Totherm~ or ~Tothermy~, the other.

=Proof=. _n._ Of manure, hay, &c., the strength or goodness. 'The rain hev waished aal the proof out o' my hay.' 'That there muckle bain't done yet; the proof yun't gone out on't.'--N. & S.W. A thriving tree is said to be in 'good proof.'

=Proofey=. Stimulating, fattening.--N.W.

'The Monkton pastures used to be of good note in Smithfield, from the very feel of the beasts. There are no more "proofey" fatting grounds in Wilts.'--_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. vi. p. 29.

=Proof maggot=. The larva of the gadfly, which causes warbles in cattle.--N.W.

=Proper=. 'Her's a proper beauty,' is extremely handsome. 'He's a proper fool,' an utter idiot.--N.W.

=Proud=. When wheat is too rank and forward in winter, it is said to be 'winter-proud' (D.).--N.W.

=Pucker=. Perplexity, dilemma (S.) 'I be in a main pucker 'bout what to do wi' they taters.'--N. & S.W.

=Pucksey= (1) A quagmire. 'The roads wer aal in a pucksey,' i.e. very muddy. 'Out of the mucksey (=mixen) into the pucksey,' from bad to worse.--S.W. (2) Hence, a mess or muddle. 'What a pucksey the house be in!' i.e. a dirty untidy state.--S.W.

=Pud=. The hand; a nursery word.--N. & S.W.

*=Pud-beggar=, =Pudbaiger=. The Water Spider (S.).--S.W.

'A very interesting word. M.E. _padde_, a toad, _paddock_, Dev. and East Anglia. M.E. _pode_, tadpole, Icelandic _padda_, used of any beetles or insects that inhabit stagnant water.'--SMYTHE-PALMER.

=Puddle= or =Piddle about=. To potter about, doing little jobs of no great utility.--N. & S.W.

*=Pue=. The udder of a cow or sheep (A.). Fr. _pis_, Lat. _pectus_.

=Pug=. (1) _n._ The pulp of apples which have been pressed for cider.--N.W. *(2) _v._ To eat (H.Wr.). *(3) To ear, plough, till (Wr.).

=Pummy=. _n._ A soft mass. 'To beat all to a pummy'; from _pomace_, the apple-pulp in cider-making.--N. & S.W.

=Purdle=. To turn head over heels in a fall.--N.W.

=Pure=. In good health. 'Quite purely,' quite well (A.).--N. & S.W.

=Purler=. A knock-down blow, a heavy fall.--N.W.

'One of them beggars had come up behind, and swung his gun round, and fetched him a purler on the back of his head.'--_Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. ix.

=Purley=. Weak-sighted (A.H.Wr.). ~Pearl blind~ is sometimes similarly used.

=Pussy-cats=, =Pussies=, and =Pussies'-tails=. Catkins of willow and hazel, more commonly of willow only (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Pussyvan=. See ~Puzzivent~.

=Pussy-willow=. _Salix._--S.W.

=Put=. See ~Pot~ (S.).

=Put about=. To vex, to worry. 'Now dwoan't 'ee go an' put yourself about wi't.'--N.W.

=Puzzivent=. A flurry or taking. 'He put I in such a puzzivent.' Formerly used in both N. and S. Wilts, but now almost obsolete. Fr. _poursuivant_. According to a note in _The Astonishing History of Troy Town_, by 'Q,' ch. xvii, the phrase originated from the contempt with which the West-country sea-captains treated the poursuivants sent down by Edward IV to threaten his displeasure. Hence _pussivanting_, ineffective bustle, Dev. and Corn.--N. & S.W. ~Pussyvan~ (S.).--S.W.

=Puzzle-pound=. The game of ~Madell~, q.v.--S.W. (Longbridge Deverill, &c.)

*=Pwine-end=. The whole gable-end of a house, which runs up to a sharp point or _pwine_.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Quakers=. _Briza media_, L., Quaking-grass.--N. & S.W.

=Quamp=. Still, quiet (A.B.G.).--N.W.

*=Quamped=, =Quomped=. Subdued, disappointed. See ~Quamp~.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

*=Quanked=. Overpowered by fatigue (A.). Compare ~Cank~.

=Quar=, =Quarr=. (1) _n._ A stone-quarry (A.B.G.S.).--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ To work as a quarryman (A.B.).--N. & S.W.

=Quar-Martin=. _Hirundo riparia_, Sand-Martin, from its breeding in holes drilled in the face of sandy quarries (_Wild Life_, ch. ix).--N.W.

=Quat=, =Qwot=, or =Qwatty=. (1) To crouch down (sometimes, but not always, remaining quite still), as a scared partridge (_Amateur Poacher_, ch. iii). To squat (A.); to sit (S.).--N. & S.W. (2) To flatten, to squash flat.--N.W.

*=Quavin-gog= or =Quaving-gog=.A quagmire (A.B.H.Wr.). See ~Gog~.--N.W.

'In the valley below the hill on which Swindon is built, are some quagmires, called by the inhabitants quaving-gogs, which are considered of great depth, and are consequently shunned as places of danger.'--_Beauties of Wilts_, vol. iii. p. 8.

*=Quean=.A woman.--N.W. (Castle Eaton.)

'The Saxon word _quean_, woman, is still used without any objectionable meaning, but its use is rare.'--_Leisure Hour_, Aug. 1893.

'When a man says of his wife that "th' old quean" did so and so, he means no disrespect to her, any more than if he were speaking of his child as "the little wench."'--MISS E. BOYER-BROWN.

=Queed=, =Quid=. (1) _n._ The cud. 'To chamme the queed' is given as a Wiltshire phrase in _MS. Lansd._ 1033 (H.).--N.W. *(2) Quid. _v._ To suck (A.).--N.W.

=Queen's-cushion=. A seat for a little girl, made by two persons crossing hands, and so carrying her between them. When a boy is so carried the term used is ~King's-cushion~.--N. & S.W.

=Quest=, =Quist=. The Woodpigeon, _Columba palumbus_ (A.B.); ~Quisty~. 'Thee bist a queer quist,' i.e. a strange sort of fellow.--N. & S.W.

'The Wiltshire labourers invariably call it ... the "Quisty."'--_Birds of Wilts_, p. 318.

=Quid=. See ~Queed~.

=Quiddle=. (1) _n._ A fussy person; one hard to satisfy in trifling matters of diet, &c.--S.W. (2) _n._ To make a fuss over trifles (S.).--S.W.

*=Quiet Neighbours=. _Centranthus ruber_, DC., Red Spur Valerian.--S.W. (Longbridge Deverill.)

=Quiff=. A knack, a trick. 'Ther's a quiff about thuck old gate-latch.'--N.W. Compare:--

'Mr. F. J. Kennedy, secretary of the Belfast Angling Association ... "worked a quiff," to use a slang phrase, on a well-known Lagan poacher.'--_Fishing Gazette_, Aug. 20, 1892, p. 154.

*=Quile=. A heap of hay ready for carrying. Fr. _cueiller_.--N.W. (Cherhill.)

=Quill=. The humour, mood, or vein for anything. 'I can work as well as or a man, when I be in the quill for 't.' To 'Quill a person' in the language in use at Winchester College is to please, or humour him. This is very near the Wilts use.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Quilt=. (1) _v._ To swallow (A.B.C.G.). 'The baby wur that bad, it couldn't quilt nothen.' This is used of swallowing in the natural way, while _glutch_ is to swallow with difficulty (C.).--N.W. (2) _n._ A gulp, a mouthful of liquid. 'Have a quilt on't?' have a drop of it.--N.W.

=Quinnet=. _n._ (1) A wedge, as the iron wedge fastening the ring of the scythe nibs in place, or the wooden wedge or cleat which secures the head of an axe or hammer.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) See ~Scythe~.

=Quirk=. To complain (A.B.G.); spelt Quisk by Akerman in error. To grunt (S.); to croak. A frog often quirks, and a toad sometimes.--N. & S.W.

=Quiset about=. To pry about (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 112).--N.W.

=Quisk=. See ~Quirk~.

=Quist=, =Quisty=. See ~Quest~.

=Quob=. (1) A soft wet place, a piece of marsh or bog.--N.W. Cp. W. of Eng. _quob_, a bog; _quob-mire_, Salop. (2) Hence 'all in a quob,' said of a bad bruise.--N.W.

=Quomped=. See ~Quamped~.

*=Quop=. To throb (A.B.G.).

=R=. (1) In pronunciation _r_ often has _d_ or _t_ affixed or prefixed, as ~Cavaltry~, horsemen; ~Crockerty~, crockery; ~Millard~, miller, &c. (2) See ~Har~. (3) Transpositions frequently occur, as _cruds_, curds; _cruddle_, to curdle; _girn_, to grin; _girt_, great; _gird'l_, a great deal; _hirn_, to run.

=Rabbit-flower=. _Dielytra spectabilis_, DC., the flowers of which, when pulled apart, form two little pink rabbits.--S.W., occasionally.

=Rabbits=. Blossoms of Snapdragon when pinched off the stem.--S.W.

*=Race=. The heart, liver and lungs of a calf (A.B.).

=Rack=. (1) A rude narrow path, like the track of a small animal (A.S.). See Gen. Pitt-Rivers' _Excavations in Cranborne Chase_, vol. i. ch. i. On Exmoor the wild deer always cross a wall or hedge at the same spot. The gap thus formed is called a 'rack.' See _Red Deer_, ch. iv. Also in W. Somerset.--S.W. (2) Apparently also sometimes used in the sense of a boundary.--S.W.

=Radical=. 'A young radical,' a regular young Turk, a troublesome young rascal. Also used in Somerset.--N.W.

=Rafter=. To plough so as to leave a narrow strip of ground undisturbed, turning up a furrow on to it on each side, thus producing a succession of narrow ridges (_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. vii). See ~Balk-ploughing~.--N.W.

=Rafty=, =Rasty=, =Rusty=. Of bacon, rancid (A.B.S.).--N. & S.W.

=Rag-mag=. A ragged beggar, or woman all in tatters.--N. & S.W.

=Rail=. To crawl or creep about, to walk slowly (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 112). 'I be that weak I can't hardly rail about.'--N.W.

=Raims=, =Reams=. A mere bag of bones, a very thin person. 'He do look as thin as a raims.'--N. & S.W.

=Raimy=. Very thin.--N. & S.W.

=Ramp=. A curve (S.).--S.W.

=Ramping=. Tall, as 'a rampin' gel.'--N.W.

*=Randin=. Riotous living.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Randy=. (1) _n._ A noisy merry-making (S.).--N. & S.W. (Malmesbury, etc.) (2) _n._ 'On the randy,' living in a riotous or immoral manner.--N. & S.W. (3) _adj._ A woman who used to be a regular attendant at all the tea-meetings and other gatherings of the kind in her neighbourhood in N. Wilts was usually spoken of as being 'a randy sort o' a 'ooman'--_randy_ apparently being there applied to such gatherings.

*=Range=. Two drifts or rows of felled underwood (D.).

=Rangle=. To twine round anything as a climbing plant does.--S.W. (Som. bord.)

=Rank=, =Ronk=. (1) Audacious. 'Hands off! Thee bist a bit too ronk!'--N.W. (2) Outrageous, as applied to a fraud or a lie.--N.W.

*=Rannel=. _adj._ Ravenously hungry.--N.W.

'A man comes in rannel vor 's food, and plaguey little dacent vittles can a get.'--_Dark_, ch. ii.

=Rant=. (1) v. To tear.--N.W.

'She "ranted" the bosom of her print dress.'--_Field Play._

(2) _n._ A tear or rent.--N.W.

=Rantipole=. _Daucus Carota_, L., Wild Carrot (_English Plant Names_).--N.W.

=Rap=, =Wrap=. A thin strip of wood.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Rapid=. 'A rapid pain,' 'rapid weather,' i.e. very violent. Always so used at Clyffe Pypard. So in W. Somerset.--N.W.

'This is a Latin use: cf. Virgil's _rapidus aestus_ (Bucol. ii. 10) and _rapidus sol_ (_Georg._ ii. 321)=strong, violent.'--SMYTHE-PALMER.

=Rare=. Underdone, but not raw. Reer (A.). Pronounced _Raa_.

=Rash=. To burn in cooking (H.Wr.). Sometimes used of malt.

=Rasty=. See ~Rafty~.

*=Rathe-ripes=. (1) An early kind of pea (B.). (2) An early kind of apple.

*=Rattle-basket=. (1) _Rhinanthus Crista-galli_, L., Yellow Rattle.--S.W. (Zeals.) *(2) _Erica cinerea?_ Heath. Heard only from one person.--S.W. (Deverill.)

=Rattle-thrush=. _Turdus viscivorus_, the Missel-thrush, occasionally extended to any very large Song-thrush. ~Rassel-thrush~ at Huish.--N. & S.W. (Salisbury, &c.)

*=Rattle-weed=. _Silene inflata_, L., Bladder Campion.--N.W. (Lyneham.)

=Rave=. The ring of twisted hazel by which hurdles are fastened to their stakes or shores.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Raves=, =Reaves=. The waggon-rails (D.S.). At Clyffe Pypard applied to the flat woodwork projecting over the wheels from the side of the forward part of a waggon.--N. & S.W.

=Rawmouse, Raamouse=. The reremouse or bat; used at Tormarton, Clyffe Pypard, &c. ~Bat-mouse~ is, however, in more general use. ~Ryemouse~ (A.B.).--N.W.

=Rawney=, =Rowney=. (1) _adj._ Thin, poor, and uneven, as applied to badly manufactured cloth (A.B.C.).--N.W. (2) _adj._ Of persons, extremely thin.--S.W. (Som. bord.), occasionally.

=Ray=, or =Array=. _v._ To dress and clean corn (D.).--N.W.

=Ray-sieve=. _n._ A sieve used to get the dust out of horses' chaff. ~Rayen-sieve~ on Dorset bord.--N.W.

=Reams=. See ~Raims~.

=Reap-hook=. The 'rip-hook' is a short-handled hook without teeth, the blade bent beyond the square of the handle; used to cut to the hand a handful at a time (D.). The old reaping-sickle was toothed or serrated. See ~Hal~. _s.v._ ~Hook~.

=Red Bobby's eye=. _Geranium Robertianum_, L., Herb-Robert.--S.W. (Redlynch.)

=Red Fiery Bang-tail=. See ~Bang-tail~.

=Red Robin Hood=. _Lychnis diurna_, Sibth., Red Campion.--S.W. (Zeals.)

=Red-Robins=. _Lychnis diurna_, Sibth., Red Campion.--N. & S.W.

=Red-weed=. Red Poppy (D.). The only name for _Papaver Rhoeas_, &c., used about Salisbury and Warminster, _Digitalis_ being the 'Poppy' of those parts. One of our oldest plant-names.--N. & S.W.

=Reed=. Unthreshed and unbroken straw reserved for thatching (S.). A Somerset and Devon word. 'Reed' is seldom used in Wilts, where ordinary threshed straw, made up into 'elms,' is the common material.--S.W.

=Reer=. See ~Rare~.

=Reeve=. To draw into wrinkles.--N.W. (Malmesbury, Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

=Remlet=. A remnant.--N.W.

=Reneeg=, =Renegue= (_g_ always hard). To back out of an engagement, to jilt.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) In Ireland a horse refusing a fence would be said to _renage_. See Whyte-Melville's _Satanella_, ch. i. p. 7: _Lear_, ii. 2, &c.

=Revel=. A pleasure fair; a parochial festival, a wake (A.B.), as 'Road Revel.' A village Club Feast (S.).--N. & S.W. There was a revel held at Cley Hill formerly, on Palm Sunday, and one at Kington Langley on the Sunday following St. Peter's Day.

=Rhaa=. Hungry, ravenous. See ~Rhan~.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, rarely.)

=Rhan= (pronounced _Rhaan_). To eat voraciously (S.). A form of _raven_. Cf. West of Eng. _ranish_, ravenous.--S.W.

*=Rhine= (pronounced _Reen_). A water-course. This is a Som. word.--N.W. (Malmesbury.) Mr. Powell mentions a Wiltshire poem, which begins:--

'There once were a frog that lived in a ditch, Or 'twere may be a rheen, it don't matter which.'

=Rick-barken=. A rick-yard (A.). See Barken.--N.W.

=Rick-stick=. In thatching, after the 'elms' are fastened down with 'spicks' or 'spars' the thatch is then lightly combed over with the 'rick-stick,' a rod with a few teeth at one end and an iron point at the other by which it can be stuck into the thatch when not in actual use.--S.W. (Warminster.)

=Riddle=. (1) _n._ A coarse sieve (A.B.). Cp. A.S. _hridder_. See Rudder.--N. & S.W. (2) v. To sift. 'Hev 'ee riddled they ashes well s'marnin'?'--N. & S.W.

=Ridge-tie=. A back chain for shafts. ~Wridgsty~ (S.).--S.W.

*=Riffle=. A knife-board on which 'callus-stone' is used (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 113).--N.W. (Cherhill.)

=Rig=. (1) _n._ A horse which has not been 'clean cut,' i.e. is only half gelded, owing to one of its stones never having come down.--N.W. (2) _v._ To climb up upon (S.), or bestride anything, either in sport or wantonness. 'To rig about' is commonly used in S. Wilts of children clambering about on wood-piles, walls, &c.--N. & S.W.

=Rigget=. A woodlouse.--S.W. (Heytesbury.)

=Ring=. 'To ring bees,' to make a noise with poker and shovel when they swarm.--N.W.

=Rinnick=. The smallest and worst pig of a litter. Sometimes abbreviated into ~Nurk~. Cf. North of England _Rannack_, a worthless fellow.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Robin's eyes=. _Geranium Robertianum_, L., Herb Robert.--S.W.

=Rock=. The 'fur' or calcareous deposit inside a kettle.--N. & S.W.

=Rocket=. 'Don your rocket,' put on your bonnet.--S.W. (Downton.) No doubt originally this meant a woman's dress or cloak (_rochet_), as in M.E., but it has long been transferred to the bonnet. In Devon _rochet_ is still sometimes applied to female dress.

=Roke=. Smoke.--S.W., occasionally.

=Rollers= (_o_ short). (1) _n._ The long lines into which hay is raked before pooking.--S.W. (Warminster, &c.) (2) _v._ Rolly. To put grass into rollers (_Cycl. of Agric._).--S.W.

*=Rommelin=. Rank, overgrown (A.).

=Ronk=. See ~Rank~.

*=Rook Hawk=. _Falco subbuteo_, the Hobby (_Birds of Wilts_, p. 72).

=Ropey=. _adj._ (1) 'Rawpey bread,' a term applied to that peculiar condition of home-made bread, known only in dry summer weather, and caused by a kind of second fermentation, when the inside of the loaf appears full of minute threads, and has a disagreeable taste.--N.W. (2) Also applied to thick drink (S.).--S.W.

=Rough=. (1) _adj._ Unwell, as 'He bin terr'ble rough this fortnight.'--N. & S.W.

'There, she was took rough as it might be uv a Monday, and afore Tuesday sundown she was gone, a-sufferin' awful.'--_The Story of Dick_, ch. viii. p. 85.

(2) 'To sleep rough,' or 'lay rough,' to sleep about out of doors like a vagabond.--N. & S.W. (3) _v._ To treat roughly, to ill-use. 'Thuck there hoss 'll kick 'ee, if so be as you do rough un.'--N.W.

=Rough Band=. A housset. See _Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. i. p. 88.

=Rough-carpenter=. The same as ~Hedge-carpenter~.--N.W.

=Rough Music=. The same as _Housset_ and _Skimmenton_.--N. & S.W.

*=Round-tail=. _v._ To clip the dirty locks of wool off the tail and legs of sheep, previously to shearing. Very commonly used in many parts of the county.--N. & S.W.

*=Round-tailings=. The locks so clipt, which are washed and dried, and usually sold at half-price.--N.W.

*=Rouse=. 'To catch and rouse,' see ~Catch~.

=Rowet-grass=. The long rough grass in hedges, &c., which cattle refuse; rowan or coarse aftergrass.--N.W.

=Rowetty=. Of grass, coarse and rough.--N.W.

'Tangled dead ferns and rowetty stuff.'--_Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. ii.

'That "rowetty" grass seen in the damp furrows of the meadows.'--_Wild Life_, ch. ii.

'Our low meadowes is ... rowtie, foggie, and full of flags.'--HARRISON'S _Description of Britain_.

=Rowey=. Rough (C.). See ~Rowetty~.

*=Rowless-thing=. In the _Diary_ of the Parliamentary Committee at Falstone House, S. Wilts, 1646-7, this curious phrase frequently occurs, apparently meaning waste and unprofitable land. It is once applied to a living. Several forms of it are used, as _Rowlass-thing_, _Rowlist-thing_, and _Rowless-thing_. See _Wilts Arch. Mag._, Nov. 1892, pp. 343-391. We have been unable to trace the word elsewhere, so that it may possibly be of local origin.

'George Hascall is become tenant for a Rowlass thing called Dawes-Frowd, land of Lord Arundell and estated out to Mrs. Morley a recusant ... John Selwood and Richard Hickes tenants unto Sir Giles Mompesson for his farm at Deptford and his Rowless-thing called Hurdles at Wiley.'--_Diary_, &c.

Sir Fras. Dowse, of Wallop, is said to have been possessed of 'another _thing_ called the Broyl [_Bruellii_ = woods] of Collingbourne.' See 'Wiltshire Compounders,' _Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxiv. p. 58. In the New Forest a 'rough' is a kind of enclosure.

'Philips promised to feed the horse in a "rough" or enclosure ... which was well fenced in, but the bank foundered and the animal got out.'--_Salisbury Journal_, Aug. 5, 1893.

=Rowney=. See ~Rawney~.

=Rubble=. (1) In Wilts usually applied to the hard chalk used in making roadways through fields (_Wild Life_, ch. ii),--N. & S.W. (2) Rubbish (A.B.C.S.).--N. & S.W.