Part 14

*=Summer ground=. See quotation.

'A custom upon two farms ... of feeding six oxen through the full range of all the summer ground belonging to the hither Beversbrook ... being the Home Close, the Middle Marsh, the Course Marsh, the Upper Lease, and Brewer's Lease; through the full range likewise of such summer grounds as belong to the yonder Beversbrook to be put in at Mortimers Gate and to feed to Burfurlong Corner, through all the afore mentioned grounds from the third of May to Michaelmas.'--_Hilmarton Parish Terrier_, 1704. See _Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxiv. p. 126.

=Summer rick=. A windmow, or very large cock of hay, thrown up in the field, to remain there some time (_Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. iv).--N.W.

=Summers= or =Bed-summers=. See ~Waggon~.

=Summer Snipe=. _Totanus hypoleucos_, Common Sandpiper.--N. & S.W.

=Sungreen=. _Sempervivum tectorum_, L., Houseleek. Occasionally Singreen in S. Wilts, and Silgreen in N. Wilts. A.S. _singréne_.--N. & S.W.

*=Swaft=. Thirst (H.Wr.). Probably from Fr. _soif_.

*=Swank=. To work in a slow lazy fashion, to idle. 'Her bain't no good for _your_ place, ma'am, her do go swanking about so over her work.'--S.W. (Salisbury.)

*=Swankey=. *(1) _adj._ Boisterous, swaggering, strutting (A.B.H.Wr.). *(2) _n._ Weak beer; drink (S.).--S.W.

=Swash=, =Swosh=. (1) _n._ A torrent or great rush of water.--N.W.

'A man in answer to my question of _how_ the rain seemed to fall, said, "It came down in _swashes_," and I think it may also be said that occasionally the wind came in _swashes_ too.'--_The Great Wiltshire Storm, Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. vi. p. 380.

(2) _v._ To swill out. 'I've bin swoshing out the back-kitchin.'--N.W.

*=Sweeps=. _Hypericum calycinum_, L., Large-flowered St. John's Wort.--S.W. (Farley.)

=Sweet-briar=. The young succulent suckers of any rose, which are peeled and eaten by children.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

*=Sweeten=. Some land requires _sweetening_, or chalking, to take out the acidity, before it will bear barley (_Agric. Survey_).

=Sweethearts=. _Galium Aparine_, L., Goosegrass, because its burs have such an affectionate way of clinging to one.--S.W. (Salisbury.)

=Swilter=. To smoulder away to ashes, without breaking into flame (A.B.).--N.W.

*=Swittle=. To cut or whittle (A.H.Wr.).

=Sythe=. To sigh (A.B.).--N.W.

=T=. _Thr_, at the beginning of a word, is usually sounded as _dr_, as _draish_, _dree_. After liquids _d_ or _t_ will often be added, as _varmint_, vermin; _sarment_, sermon; _steart_, a steer; _dillard_, thiller. _F_ and _v_ sometimes become _th_, as _thetches_ for fitches or vetches. _Th_ will also occasionally become _Ss_, as _lattermass_, latter-math. Conversely, _Ss_ rarely becomes _th_, as _moth_, moss.

=Tack=. (1) A shelf, as _chimney-tack_ (A.B.C.).--N.W. (2) Pasture for horses and cattle (A.B.).--N.W. (3) 'Out to tack,' at agistment, applied to cattle that are put out to keep by the week or month.--N.W.

=Tackle=. Stuff, any material, as food, solid or liquid (A.). 'This here yale be oncommon good tackle'; or dress material, 'Haven't 'ee got any gingham tackle?' (_Great Estate_, ch. iv). Also used of food for cattle.--N.W.

'Thaay [the sheep] be goin' into th' Mash to-morrow.... We be got shart o' keep.... Thur's a main sight o' tackle in the Mash vor um.'--_Green Ferne Farm_, ch. v.

=Taffety=. Dainty in eating (S.).--S.W.

=Tag=. (1) When a lawn-mower or barrow is too heavy for one man to manage alone, a rope is attached for a boy to draw by, who is said to 'pull tag.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) _n._ A game played by boys. One touches another, saying _Tag!_ and the touched person has then to run after and touch another, who becomes _Tag_ in his turn.--N. & S.W. *(3) _v._ To tease, to torment (C.).--N.W., obsolete.

=Tail=. (1) _n._ The whole skirt of a woman's dress. 'Hev 'ee got ar' a owld taail to gie I, Miss?'--N. & S.W. (2) 'Seconds' of flour (_Great Estate_, ch. vi); also ~Tailing-flour~.--N.W. (3) ~Tail-ends~ or ~Tailings~. Refuse wheat, not saleable in market, kept for consumption on the farm (A.B.G.); also ~Tail~, ~Tailing-wheat~, and ~Tailens~ (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Tail Pole=. See ~Waggon~.

*=Take=. _n._ The sciatica (Aubrey's _Wilts MS._).--Obsolete.

=Take up=. Of weather, to become fine.--N. & S.W.

=Tallet=, =Tallot=. A hay-loft over a stable (A.B.G.S.). Welsh _taflod_.--N. & S.W. See _N. & Q._ 8th Ser. iv. 450, &c.

*=Tamed=. 'By that time the ground will be tamed.' Said in Lisle's _Husbandry_ to be a Wilts agricultural term, but not there explained.

=Tan=. _Then_ is so pronounced in such phrases as _Now'-an'-Tan_ and _Twitch-an'-Tan_.

=Tang=. (1) 'To tang the bell,' to pull it (A.).--N.W. (2) 'To tang bees,' to follow a swarm, beating a fire-shovel or tin pan (A.).--N.W. (3) _v._ To make a noise (S.).--S.W. (4) _n._ A small church bell is a ~Ting-Tang~.--N.W.

=Tankard=. A sheep-bell.--N.W. It is said that the whole of the 'tankards' in use in England are made at Great Cheverell.

'Hilary ... turned back, remarking, "It's Johnson's flock; I know the tang of his tankards." The flat-shaped bells hung on a sheep's neck are called tankards, and Hilary could distinguish one flock from another by the varying notes of their bells.'--_Great Estate_, ch. vi. p. 123.

*=Tasker=. A tramping harvester or casual labourer who works by the piece (_Agric. of Wilts_, p. 24).

*=Tawney=, =Ta'aney=. The Bullfinch, _Pyrrhula vulgaris_.--N.W.

=Tazzle=. _n._ 'Her hair be aal of a tazzle,' in great disorder, all tangled and knotted and tousled.--N.W.

=Tear=. (1) A rage. 'He wur in just about a tear.'--S.W. (2) In N. Wilts old folk used formerly to _tear_ their crockery, and _break_ their clothes, but _tear_ now seems obsolete in this sense there.--N. & S.W.

=Teart=. (1) Painfully tender, sore, as a wound (A.).--N.W. (2) Stinging, as a blister.--N.W. (Rowde.) (3) Tart, as beer turning sour (S.): acrimonious. See _Addenda_.--S.W.

=Ted=. To throw about hay for the first time (D.S.).--N. & S.W.

=Teel=, =Tile=. To place anything leaning against a wall (A.B.H.Wr.). Generally used with _up_, as 'Teel it up agen th' wall, wull 'ee?'--N.W.

=Teft=. The same as ~Heft~ (A.B.C.)--N.W.

=Teg-man=. A shepherd.--S.W. (Salisbury.)

'I am a teg-man (or shepherd) in the employ of Mr. White.'--_Wilts County Mirror_, October 28, 1892, p. 8, col. 5.

=Temper=. 'To temper down dripping,' to melt it and refine with water.--N.W.

=Temtious=. Tempting, inviting.--N. & S.W.

*=Temzer=. A riddle or sieve. Cp. Fr. _tamis_.--Obsolete.

'A temzer, a range, or coarse searche: Wilts.'--_MS. Lansd._ 1033, f. 2.

=Tentful=. Attentive, careful.--N.W.

=Terrible=. Extremely. ''Tes a terr'ble bad harvest to-year.'--N. & S.W.

=Terrify=. (1) _v._ To worry, irritate, annoy; used especially of very troublesome children. 'The vlies be terrible terrifying.'--N. & S.W.

''Twer mostly losing of a hoss as did for 'em, and most al'ays wi' bad shoeing. They gived 'em scant measure--shoed 'em too tight, they did, a-terrifying o' the poor beasts.'--_Jonathan Merle_, ch. xlviii. p. 520.

'Her own folks mightn't a-like so well to come and stay, if ther was al'ays a terrifying old woman to put up with.'--_Ibid_, ch. liv. p. 596.

'Her husband, who had been out in the fields, came home and began to "terrify" her.'--_Marlborough Times_, November 26, 1892.

'I be turrivied wi' rheumatics.'--_Dark_, ch. x.

(2) _n._ A source of worry or trouble. A bed-ridden woman who has to get her neighbours to do everything for her is 'a terrible terrify' to them.--N.W. *(3) _v._ To injure, as a hailstorm does apple-blossom (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 113).--N.W. (Cherhill.)

=Tewley=, =Tuley=. Weakly (S.). Sickly, tired-looking.--S.W.

=Thatches=. See =Thetches=.

=Thauf=. Although, or although if; as 'A never vound un, thauf he'd gone dree lug vurder on, a cudden a bin off seein' on un.' Cp. Sauf.--N.W. (Malmesbury, etc.)

=Theave=. A ewe of the third year.

'We have wether hogs and chilver hogs, and shear hogs, ram tegs, and theaves, and two-tooths, and four-tooths, and six-tooths.'--_Wilts Arch. Mag._ ch. xvii. p. 303.

=There-right=. (1) 'Go straight forward,' order to a horse at plough (A.).--N.W. (2) On the spot.--N.W.

=Thert=. _v._ To plough land a second time, at right angles to the first ploughing, so as to clean it more effectually. Cp. _Thwart_.--N.W.

=Thetches=, =Thatches=. Vetches. _Lent thetches_ are an early spring kind.--N.W.

=Thill=, or =Dill=. The shaft of a cart.--N.W.

=Thiller=, =Diller=, =Thill-horse=. The shaft-horse of a team.--N.W.

=Thimbles=. _Campanula rotundifolia_, L., the Harebell.--S.W. (Hamptworth.)

=Thorough-pin=. The pin which fastens the waggon-bed to the carriage (D.). See Waggon.--N.W.

*=Three-pound-tenner=. The name given by bird-catchers about Salisbury to the 'Chevil' variety of Goldfinch, it being more valuable than the ordinary kind (_Birds of Wilts_, p. 203).--S.W.

=Threshles=. 'A pair of threshles, drashols, or flyals, a flail' (D.). The usual term for a flail. See ~Drashel~.--N. & S.W.

=Throw=. (1) _n._ 'A throw of timber,' the quantity felled at any one time.--N.W. (2) _v._ To fell timber (_Bevis_, ch. i).--N.W. (3) 'To throw a gin or snare,' to spring or set it off (_Amateur Poacher_, ch. vi).--N.W.

=Thunder-bolts=, (1) The concretionary nodules of iron pyrites so frequently found in the chalk. See ~Gold~; also Thunder-stones in _Addenda_.--N. & S.W.

'The ploughboys search for pyrites, and call them thunderbolts.--_Greene Ferne Farm_, ch. v.

(2) Fossil belemnites.--N. & S.W.

=Thunder-flower=. _Papaver Rhoeas_, &c., Red Poppy.--S.W.

=Thunder-fly=. A black midge. So called because they appear mostly in thunder weather.--N. & S.W.

'Tiny black flies alighting on my hands and face, irritated the skin; the haymakers call them "thunder-flies."'--_Great Estate_, ch. v. pp. 96-97.

*=Thurindale=. A flagon holding about three pints (H.Wr.). M.E. _thriddendele_, a third part.--Obsolete.

=Thurtifer=. Unruly, self-willed (H.Wr.).--S.W.

=Ticky Pig=. The smallest pig of a litter.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Tid=. *(1) Lively, playful (B.G.). (2) Childish, affecting simplicity (A.), shy. 'Coom, coom, dwon't'e be tid' (A.). A.S. _tyddr_, tender, weak, imbecile.--N.W.

=Tiddle=. (1) _v._ To bring up a lamb by hand (A.). A.S. _tyddrian_, to nourish, feed.--N.W.

'"Shall I get a drap o' milk, and _tiddle_ un a leetle, maester?" ... "Ha! to be sure! ... Put un into the basket ... and get us a bottle wi' some milk." Tom, who had often assisted the young lambs in the same way, soon procured the therewith to fashion the pseudo teat, and master and man did their best to perform the office of wet nurse to the unfortunate foundling.'--_Wilts Tales_, pp. 5-6.

(2) _v._ To tickle (S.).--S.W.

=Tiddlin' lamb=. A lamb brought up by hand (A.). See ~Tiddle~ (1).--N.W.

*=Tiddy=. _adj._ Weakly, delicate. See ~Tiddle~ (1).--N.W. (Castle Eaton, &c.)

=Tide-times=. Christmas, Easter, &c. 'He do have a drop, tide-times and that.'--N. & S.W.

=Tie=. Of wood, to pinch the saw while working.--N.W.

*=Tig=. A little pig (_Dark_, ch. i).--N.W., occasionally.

=Tile=. See ~Teel~.

=Tiller=. The upper handle of a sawyer's long pit-saw. See ~Box~.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Tiller out=. To sprout out with several shoots, as wheat after being eaten off when young.--N. & S.W.

=Timersome=. Timid (A.S.).--N.W.

=Tine=. *(1) _v._ To light a fire or candle (A.C.). ~Tin'd~ (B.). Cf. A.S. _tendan, on-tendan_, to kindle, and E. _tinder_. *(2) To finish off a laid hedge or stake-fence by weaving in the top-band of boughs (A.B.). *(3) _v._ To divide or enclose a field with a hedge (A.B.C.). A.S. _týnan_.--N.W.

'To tine in a piece of waste ground is to enclose it with a fence of wood or quickset.'--_Cunnington MS._

(4) _n._ A drag or harrow tooth (D.).--N.W. *(5) To give the ground two or three _tinings_ is to draw the harrow two or three times over the same place. See Cope's _Hants Gloss_.

'They drag it two, three, or four times, and harrow it four, five, or six times, viz. (provincially speaking), they give it "so many tine with the drag, and so many with the harrow."'--_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. vii.

=Ting-tang=. A small church-bell (S.). See ~Tang~.--N.W.

*=Tining=. (1) _n._ A new enclosure made with a dead hedge (D.H. Wr.).--N.W. (2) _n._ A fence of wood, either brushwood, pale, or quickset (C.).--N.W., obsolete.

=Tippem=, =Tippum=. A game played by six boys, three on each side of the table. The centre one 'works the piece,' i.e. passes it from hand to hand up and down under his side of the table. Then all the hands are placed on the table, and the opposite side guesses which hand the 'piece' is in, and scores or loses a mark according as the guess is right or wrong. The 'piece' may be anything available, from a knife to a pebble or bean.--N.W.

=Tippy=, =Tippity=. Easily upset.--N. & S.W.

=Tistie-tostie=, =Tostie=. A child's name for both cowslip and cowslip-ball.--N. & S.W.

=Tithing=, =Tething=. A shock of ten sheaves, for convenience in tithe-taking (D.). The same as ~Hyle~.--N.W.

=Titty-wren=. The wren.--N.W.

*=Toads'-cheese=. Toadstool, fungus (A.).

*=Toads'-heads=. _Fritillaria Meleagris_, L., Snake's-head (_English Plant Names_).--N.W. (Minety.)

=Toads'-meat=. Toadstools; fungi (S.).--S.W.

=Toad-stabber=. A bad blunt knife (S.). Commonly used by boys about Clyffe Pypard.--N. & S.W.

=Todge=. Any thick spoon-meat, as gruel (A.B.C.). See ~Stodge~.--N.W.

=Token=. *(1) A fool (H.Wr.). (2) A 'young token' is a young rascal.--N.W. (3) Formerly used also as a term of endearment. A man would call his children his 'little tokens.'--N.W. (4) 'Blackberry-token,' the Dewberry.

=Toll=. To entice or decoy. ~Tawl~ (S.). 'Hev' a bit o' cheese, to toll the bread down wi', will 'ee?' Still in common use. A cow given to wandering, when she breaks out of bounds, generally 'tolls' the rest of the herd after her.--N. & S.W.

=Toll-bird=. (1) _n._ A trained decoy-bird; also a stuffed bird used as a decoy.--N. & S.W. (2) 'To give anything just as a toll-bird,' to throw a sprat to catch a mackerel. Tradesmen will sell some one article far below cost-price, as a toll-bird to attract custom.--S.W.

=Tom-bird=. The male of any bird is generally so called in N. Wilts.

=Tom Cull=. The Bullhead, _Cottus gobio_ (A.).--N. & S.W.

=Tommy=. Food in general (S.), especially when carried out into the fields.--N. & S.W.

=Tommy-bag=. The bag in which labourers take food out with them (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Tommy-hacker=. The same as Hacker.--S.W. (Steeple Ashton.)

=Tommy-hawk=. A potato hacker. See ~Hacker~.--N.W.

*=Tom Thumbs=. _Lotus corniculatus_, L., Bird's-foot Trefoil.--S.W. (Mere.)

*=Tom Thumb's Honeysuckle=. _Lotus corniculatus_, L., Bird's-foot Trefoil (_Sarum Dioc. Gazette_).--S.W. (Zeals.)

=Toppings=. Bran and mill-sweepings ground up together.--N.W.

=Totty=, =Tutty=, =Tutto=. A nosegay. Used all over Wilts, in slightly varying pronunciations, the stress sometimes falling on the first and sometimes on the last syllable. An apple-tree in full blossom is 'all a totty.' At Hungerford the tything-men are known as ~Tutti-men~, and carry ~Tutti-poles~, or wands wreathed with flowers. Minsheu's Dict., Eng. and Spanish ed. 1623, 'a posie or tuttie.'--N. & S.W.

=Touch=. Coarse brown paper soaked in saltpetre and dried, used instead of matches for lighting a pipe in the open air, the spark to kindle it being struck with a knife and a flint. Commonly used up to a very recent date.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Touchwood=. A boy's game, in which the pursued endeavours to escape by touching _wood_, i.e. tree or post, before his pursuer can seize him.--N. & S.W.

=Toward=. (1) Order to a horse to come towards you.--N.W. (2) Hence applied to anything near or leaning towards you (_Great Estate_, ch. viii).--N.W.

=Towardly=. Docile, as opposed to _froward_.--N.W.

=To-year=, =T'year=. This year. 'I bain't a-gwain' to set no taters to-year.'--N. & S.W.

=Traipse=, =Trapes=, =Traipsey=. (1) _n._ A slattern.--N. & S.W. (2) To walk in a slatternly manner; used chiefly of women.--N. & S.W.

*=Trammel Hawk=. _Falco peregrinus_, Peregrine Falcon (_Birds of Wilts_, p. 72).--S.W.

=Trant=. To move goods.--N.W.

=Tranter=. A haulier.--N.W.

=Trapes=. n. An untidy person (S.). See ~Traipes~.--N. & S.W.

*=Traveller's-ease=. _Achillea Millefolium_, L., Common Yarrow.--S.W. (Little Langford.)

=Tree-mouse=. _Certhia familiaris_, the Common Creeper.--S.W.

'It may be seen creeping like a mouse up and down the hole of a tree. Hence it is known in the south of the county as the "Tree-mouse.'"--_Birds of Wilts._, p. 259. #/ =Trendle=. (1) _n._ A circular trough or tray in which bakers mix their dough.--N. & S.W. (2) _n._ Hence, a circular earthwork.--N.W.

'Chisenbury Camp, or Trendle, as it is vulgarly called.'--BRITTON'S _Top. Descr. Wilts_., p. 407.

=Triangle=. 'To plant cabbages triangle,' to set them in _quincunx_ order.--N.W.

=Trig=. (1) _v._ To fasten, make firm (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 113).--N.W. (2) adj. 'Pretty trig,' in fairly good health.--S.W. (Steeple Ashton.)

=Trigger=. The rod let down to '_trig up_' the shafts of a cart.--N.W.

*=Trim-tram=. A gate which swings in a V-shaped enclosure of post and rail, so as to prevent cattle from passing through.--N.W. (Cherhill.)

=Trins=. Calves' trins, i.e., calves' stomachs, are used in cheese-making.--N.W.

=Trip=. To take off in jumping.--N.W.

=Tripping=. The 'take-off' in jumping.--N.W.

'Sometimes they could not leap because the tripping was bad ... sometimes the landing was bad ... or higher than the tripping.--_Bevis_, ch. v.

=Trounce=. To have the law of a man, to punish by legal process (A.B.S.); never used of physical punishment.--N.W.

=Truckle=. (1) _v._ To roll.--N.W. (2) _n._ Anything that may be rolled.--N.W. (3) _n._ A small cheese (S.)--N. & S.W.

=Truckle-cheese=. A small barrel-shaped cheese of about 6 or 8 lbs.--N. & S.W.

=Truckles=. (1) 'Sheep's-truckles,' sheep dung; the usual term in N. Wilts. Cf. 'trottles' in Linc., and 'trestles' in Sussex.--N.W. (2) 'To play truckles,' to roll anything, such as a reel, the top of a canister, &c., from one player to another, backwards and forwards.--S.W.

=Trumpery=. Weeds growing in cultivated ground.--N.W.

'If he'd a-let us have it rent free first year ('cause that land wer all full o' trump'ry that high) we could ha' done.'--Jonathan Merle, ch. xxxvii. p. 412.

=Tuck=. (1) 'To tuck a rick,' to pull out the uneven hay all round the sides, until they look smooth and even.--N.W. (2) To smart with pain (H.Wr.).--N. & S.W. (3) To blow gustily. 'The wind is so tucking to-day,' i.e. gusty, veering, blowing from all quarters, uncertain.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Tuffin=, =Tuffin-hay=, =Tuff-mowing=. Late hay made of the rough grass left by the cattle. ~Turvin~ (_Great Estate_, ch. iv).--N.W.

*=Tufwort=. Probably the nest of _Vespa Britannica_, which in hot summers has occurred frequently in our hedges in some parts of the county.

'Between Crookwood and what is called "The Folly," they observed a large cluster in one of the fir-trees ... which turned out to be a wasps' nest. The nest, which was nearly as large as a quartern measure, was fully matured, and is described by an expert in taking wasps' nests as what is known as "the tufwort" nest. It consisted of three splendid cakes of comb, enclosed in a web.'--Local Papers, July, 1893.

=Tugs=. Pieces of chain attached to the hames of the thiller, by which he draws.--N.W.

=Tuley=. See ~Tewley~.

=Tulip-tree=. _Acer pseudo-platanus_, L., Sycamore, the smell or taste of the young shoots being supposed by children to resemble that of the tulip.--S.W. (Salisbury.)

=Tump=. A hillock (A.B.).--N. & S.W.

=Tumpy=. Hillocky, uneven (A.)--N.W.

=Tun=. (1) _n._ Chimney, chimney-top (A.B.C.). 'Chimney-tun' (_Wild Life_, ch. viii).--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ 'To tun,' or 'to tun in,' to pour liquid through a 'tun-dish' into a cask.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, Devizes, Huish.)

=Tun-dish=, or =Tun-bowl=. A kind of wooden funnel, like a small bucket, with hoops round it, and a tube at the bottom, used for pouring liquids into a cask.--N.W. (Devizes, Clyffe Pypard, Huish.) See _Measure for Measure_, iii. 2.

=Turf=. Refuse oak-bark from the tanner's, made into cakes for firing (B.H.Wr.).--N.W. (Marlborough, &c.)

*=Turn= or =Torn=. A spinning-wheel.--N.W. (obsolete). This word frequently occurs in the Mildenhall parish accounts, as:--

'1793. To Box and Spokes to Torn, 1_s_. 2_d_. To a Standard, hoop 4 spokes to Torn, 1_s_. 3_d_. To a Hoop 3 spokes to a Torn, 11 _d_. To 4 legs and standard a hope 5 spokes to Sal's Torn, 2_s_. 7_d_. To Mending Bery's Torn, 1_s_. 6_d_. 1784. Paid John Rawlins for a Turn, 3_s_.'

In 1809-10 the word _Turn_ gives place to _Spinning-wheel_.

*=Turnpike=. A wire set by a poacher across a hare's run (_Amateur Poacher_, chs. ii. and vii).--N.W.

=Turvin=. See ~Tuffin~.

=Tutto=. See ~Totty~.--N.W.

=Tutty=. See ~Totty~ (S.).--N. & S.W.

*=Tut-work=. Piece-work (S.).--S.W.

=Twinge=. (1) _n._ A long flat cake or loaf of bread.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) _n._ A piece of dough, moulded for making into bread.--S.W. (Deverill.)

*=Twire=. To look wistfully at anything (A.B.C.). 'How he did twire an' twire at she, an' her wouldn't so much as gie 'un a look!' In _Cunnington MS._ the word is said to have been in common use at that time in N. Wilts.

'The wench ... twired and twinkled at him.'--FLETCHER, _Women Pleased_, p. 41.

'Compare Prov. Germ, _zwiren_, to take a stolen glance at a thing.--SMYTHE-PALMER.

*=Twi-ripe=. Ripening unevenly (D.).

=Twit=. In cider-making, the same as ~Perkins~, q.v.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=T'year=. This year (A.S.) See ~To-year~.--N. & S.W.

=U=. _U_ is often sounded _ow_, as _fowsty_, fusty, _dowst_, dust, or chaff.

=Uck=. This very characteristic N. Wilts verb is used in many ways. Stable-litter is ucked about with a fork in cleaning out; weeds are ucked out of a gravel path with an old knife; a cow ucks another with the thrust of her horn; or a bit of cinder is ucked out of the eye with a bennet. See _Great Estate_, ch. iv, where it is said that anything stirred with a pointed instrument is 'ucked'; also _Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. ii. 'It is apparently not a perversion of _hook_, and should be compared with _huck_, to push, lift, gore, Hants; huck, a hard blow, Suss., and huck, to spread about manure (see Parish, _Sussex Gloss._). It is perhaps a by-form of Prov. _hike_, to toss, throw, or strike' (Rev. A. Smythe-Palmer).

=Unbelieving=. Of children, disobedient. 'He be that unbelieving, I can't do nothin' wi' un.'--N. & S.W.

=Under-creeping=. Underhanded.--S.W.

=Unempty=, =Unempt=, =Unent=. _v._ To empty (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Unked= or =Hunked=. Lonely (A.), but always with an idea of uncanniness underlying it. ''Tes a unked rwoad to take late o' nights.' Also ~Unkid~, ~Unkerd~ (B.C.), ~Unkert~ (C.), and ~Unket~ (B.).--N.W.

'The gamekeeper ... regards this place as "unkid"--i.e. weird, uncanny.'--_Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. iv.

'Related to uncouth = (1) unknown, (2) strange, uncanny, lonely.'--SMYTHE-PALMER.

'What be the matter with thuck dog you? How he do howl--it sounds main unkid!'--_Greene Ferne Farm_, ch. ix.

Here _unkid_=ominous and uncanny.

=Unthaw=. To thaw (S.Wr.).--N. & S.W.

=Up-along=. A little way up the street or road (S.). See ~Down-along~.--N. & S.W.

=Upping-stock=. A horse-block (A.B.).--N.W.

=Upsides=. 'I'll be upzides wi' un!' I'll be even with him (S)., or a match for him.--N. & S.W.

=V=. Many words, as _Voreright_, usually pronounced with a V, will be found under ~F~.