A Glossary of Words used in the Country of Wiltshire. George Edward Dartnell

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СКАЧАТЬ original meaning was to finish off cloth or felt by removing knots, rough places, loose threads, and other irregularities of surface, and it is still so used in S. Wilts (S.).

      Burn. 'To burn a pig,' to singe the hair off the dead carcase.—N. & S.W.

      *Burn-bake (or -beak). (1) To reclaim new land by paring and burning the surface before cultivation (Agric. of Wilts, ch. xii). See Bake. (2) To improve old arable land by treating it in a similar way (Ibid. ch. xii). Burn-beke (Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 103. Ed. Brit., where the practice is said to have been introduced into S. Wilts by Mr. Bishop of Merton, about 1639). (3) n. Land so reclaimed. See Bake.—S.W.

      Burrow. See Bur'.

      Burry. See Bur'.

      'Buseful. Foul-mouthed, abusive.—N.W.

      Bush. (1) n. A heavy hurdle or gate, with its bars interlaced with brushwood and thorns, which is drawn over pastures in spring, and acts like a light harrow (Amateur Poacher, ch. iv).—N.W. (2) v. To bush-harrow a pasture.—N.W.

      Butchers' Guinea-pigs. Woodlice. See Guinea-pigs.—S.W.

      Butter-and-Eggs. (1) Narcissus incomparabilis, Curt., Primrose Peerless.—N. & S.W. (2) Linaria vulgaris, Mill., Yellow Toadflax (Great Estate, ch. v).—N. & S.W.

      Buttercup. At Huish applied only to Ranunculus Ficaria, L., Lesser Celandine, all other varieties of Crowfoot being 'Crazies' there.

      Butter-teeth. The two upper incisors.—N.W.

      Buttons. Very young mushrooms.—N. & S.W.

      Buttry. A cottage pantry (A.B.).—N.W., now almost obsolete.

      Butt-shut. (1) To join iron without welding, by pressing the heated ends squarely together, making an imperceptible join (Village Miners). See Shut. (2) Hence a glaringly inconsistent story or excuse is said 'not to butt-shut' (Village Miners).

      Butty. A mate or companion in field-work (S.).—N. & S.W.

      *By-the-Wind. Clematis Vitalba, L., Traveller's Joy.—S.W. (Farley.)

      *Caa-vy (? Calfy). A simpleton (S.).—S.W.

      Cack. See Keck.

      *Cack-handed, *Cag-handed. Extremely awkward and unhandy: clumsy to the last degree (Village Miners). Other dialect words for 'awkward' are Dev., cat-handed, Yorks., gawk-handed, and Nhamp., keck-handed. Cf. Cam-handed.

      Caddle. (1) n. Dispute, noise, row, contention (A.); seldom or never so used now.—N. & S.W.

      'What a caddle th' bist a makin', Jonas!'—Wilts Tales, p. 82.

      'If Willum come whoam and zees two [candles] a burnin', he'll make a vi-vi-vine caddle.'—Wilts Tales, p. 42.

      (2) n. Confusion, disorder, trouble (A.B.C.S.).—N. & S.W.

      'Lawk, zur, but I be main scrow to be ael in zich a caddle, alang o' they childern.'—Wilts Tales, p. 137.

      (3) v. To tease, to annoy, to bother (A.B.C.). See Caddling. 'Now dwoan't 'e caddle I zo, or I'll tell thee vather o' thee!' 'I be main caddled up wi' ael they dishes to weish.'—N. & S.W.

      ''Tain't no use caddlin I—I can't tell 'ee no more.'—Greene Ferne Farm, ch. viii.

      (4) v. To hurry. 'To caddle a horse,' to drive him over-fast.—N.W. (5) v. To loaf about, only doing odd jobs. 'He be allus a caddlin' about, and won't never do nothin' reg'lar.'—N. & S.W. (6) v. To mess about, to throw into disorder. 'I don't hold wi' they binders [the binding machines], they do caddle the wheat about so.'—N. & S.W.

      Caddlesome. Of weather, stormy, uncertain. ''T 'ull be a main caddlesome time for the barley.'—S.W.

      Caddling. (1) adj. Of weather, stormy, uncertain.—N. & S.W. (2) adj. Quarrelsome, wrangling (C.).—N. & S.W.

      'His bill was zharp, his stomack lear, Zo up a snapped the caddlin pair.'—Wilts Tales, p. 97.

      'A cadling fellow, a wrangler, a shifting, and sometimes an unmeaning character.'—Cunnington MS.

      (3) adj. Meddlesome (S.), teasing (Monthly Mag., 1814); troublesome, worrying, impertinent (A.B.).—N. & S.W.

      'Little Nancy was as naisy and as caddlin' as a wren, that a was'.—Wilts Tales, p. 177.

      *(4) Chattering (Monthly Mag., 1814): probably a mistake.

      Caffing rudder. See Caving rudder.

      *Cag-handed. See Cack-handed.

      Cag-mag. Bad or very inferior meat (S.).—N. & S.W.

      Cains-and-Abels. Aquilegia vulgaris, L., Columbine.—S.W. (Farley.)

      *Calf-white. See White.

      Call. Cause, occasion. 'You've no call to be so 'buseful' [abusive].—N. & S.W.

      Call home. To publish the banns of marriage (S.).—S.W.

      'They tells I as 'ow Bet Stingymir is gwain to be caal'd whoam to Jim Spritely on Zundy.'—Slow.

      *Callow-wablin. An unfledged bird (A.).—S.W.

      Callus-stone. A sort of gritty earth, spread on a board for knife-sharpening (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 109).—N. & S.W. (Cherhill, &c.)

      Calves'-trins. Calves' stomachs, used in cheese-making. A.S. trendel. See Trins. Halliwell and Wright give 'Calf-trundle, the small entrails of a calf.'—N.W.

      *Cam. Perverse, cross. Welsh cam, crooked, wry.—N.W.

      'A 's as cam and as obstinate as a mule.'—Wilts Tales, p. 138.

      'They there wosbirds [of bees] zimd rayther cam and mischievul.'—Springtide, p. 47.

      Cam-handed. Awkward.—N.W.

      *Cammock. Ononis arvensis, L., Restharrow (D.).

      Cammocky. Tainted, ill-flavoured, as cheese or milk when the cows have been feeding on cammock. See Gammotty (2).—S.W.

      Canary-seed. Seed-heads of Plantain.—N. & S.W.

      Candle. 'To strike a candle,' to slide, as school-boys do, on the heel, so as to leave a white mark along the ice.—S.W.

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