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

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СКАЧАТЬ The muscles of the leg, just under the knee-joint.—N. & S.W.

      Clinkerbell. An icicle.—S.W. (Som. bord.) occasionally.

      Clitch. The groin.—N.W.

      Clite, Clit. (1) n. 'All in a clite,' tangled, as a child's hair. A badly groomed horse is said to be 'aal a clit.'—N. & S.W. (2) v. To tangle. 'How your hair do get clited!'—N. & S.W.

      Clites, Clytes. Galium Aparine, L., Goosegrass (A.). Usually pl., but Jefferies has sing., Clite, in Wild Life, ch. ix.—N. & S.W.

      Clitty. Tangled, matted together.—S.W.

      Clock. A dandelion seed-head, because children play at telling the time of day by the number of puffs it takes to blow away all its down.—N. & S.W.

      Cloddy. Thick, plump, stout (H.Wr.).—S.W.

      Clog-weed. Heracleum Sphondylium, L., Cow-parsnip (Amateur Poacher, ch. vi).—N.W.

      Clot. A hard lump of dry cow-dung, left on the surface of a pasture. See Cow-clat.—N.W.

      'On pasture farms they beat clots or pick up stones.'—R. Jefferies, Letter to Times, Nov. 1872.

      '1661. Itm p^d Richard Sheppard & Old Taverner for beating clatts in Inglands, 00. 04. 08.'—Records of Chippenham, p. 226.

      *Clote. n. Verbascum Thapsus, L., Great Mullein (Aubrey's Wilts MS.).—Obsolete.

      Clothes-brush. Dipsacus sylvestris, L., Wild Teasel. Cf. Brushes.—S.W.

      Clottiness. See Cleaty. Clottishness (Agric. Survey).

      'The peculiar churlishness (provincially, "clottiness") of a great part of the lands of this district, arising perhaps from the cold nature of the sub-soil.'—Agric. of Wilts, ch. vii. p. 51.

      Clout. (1) n. A box on the ear, a blow (A.B.C.S.). See Clue. 'I'll gie thee a clout o' th' yead.'—N. & S.W. (2) v. To strike.—N. & S.W.

      Clue. 'A clue in the head,' a knock on the head (Village Miners). A box on the ear. Cf. clow, Winchester College. See Clout.—N.W.

      Clum. To handle clumsily (A.B.), roughly, boisterously, or indecently (C.).—N.W.

      Clumbersome. Awkward, clumsy.—N.W.

      Clumper, Clumber. A heavy clod of earth.—N.W. (Marlborough.)

      Clums. pl. Hands. 'I'll keep out o' thee clums, I'll warnd I will!'—N.W. Clumps is used in S. Wilts in a similar way, but generally of the feet (S.), and always implies great awkwardness, as 'What be a treadin' on my gownd vor wi' they girt ugly clumps o' yourn?'

      Clungy. See Clangy.

      *Cluster-of-five. The fist. Cluster-a-vive (S.).—S.W.

      Clutter. n. Disorder, mess, confusion. 'The house be ael in a clutter to-day wi' they childern's lease-carn.'—N. & S.W.

      Cluttered. (1) 'Caddled,' over-burdened with work and worry.—N. & S.W.

      '"Cluttered up" means in a litter, surrounded with too many things to do at once.'—Jefferies, Field and Hedgerow, p. 189.

      *(2) Brow-beaten. Said to have been used at Warminster formerly.

      Cluttersome. See Clattersome.

      Cluttery. Showery and gusty.—S.W.

      *Clyders. Galium Aparine, L., Goosegrass.—S.W.

      *Clyten. *(1) n. An unhealthy appearance, particularly in children (A.B.C.).—N.W., obsolete. *(2) n. An unhealthy child (C.).—N.W., obsolete.

      *Clytenish. adj. Unhealthy-looking, pale, sickly (A.B.C.H.Wr.).—N.W., obsolete.

      Clytes. See Clites.

      *Coath. Sheep-rot (D.S.).—N. & S.W.

      Cobbler's-knock. 'To do the cobbler's knock,' to slide on one foot, tapping the ice meanwhile with the other.—S.W.

      *Cob-nut. A game played by children with nuts (A.B.).—S.W.

      Cockagee, Cockygee (g hard). A kind of small hard sour cider apple. Ir. cac a' gheidh, goose-dung, from its greenish-yellow colour (see N.E.D., s.v. Coccagee).—S.W. (Deverill, &c.)

      Cocking-fork. A large hay-fork, used for carrying hay from the cock into the summer-rick.—S.W.

      *Cocking-poles. Poles used for the same purpose.—N.W.

      Cockles. Seed-heads of Arctium Lappa, L., Burdock.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard).

      Cock's Egg. The small eggs sometimes first laid by pullets.—N. & S.W.

      Cock-shot. A cock-shy: used by boys about Marlborough and elsewhere. 'I say, there's a skug [squirrel]—let's have a cock-shot at him with your squailer.'—N. & S.W.

      *Cock's-neckling. 'To come down cock's-neckling,' to fall head foremost (H.Wr.).—Obsolete.

      Cock's-nests. The nests so often built and then deserted by the wren, without any apparent cause.—N.W.

      *Cock-sqwoilin. Throwing at cocks at Shrovetide (A.Wr.). See Squail.—N.W., obsolete.

      '1755. Paid expenses at the Angel at a meeting when the By Law was made to prevent Throwing at Cocks, 0.10.6.'—Records of Chippenham, p. 244.

      Cocky-warny. The game of leap-frog.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

      *Cod-apple. A wild apple (Wilts Arch. Mag. xiv. 177).

      Codlins-and-cream. Epilobium hirsutum, L., Great Hairy Willow-herb; from its smell when crushed in the hand. Cf. Sugar-Codlins.—S.W.

      *Coglers. The hooks, with cogged rack-work for lifting or lowering, by which pots and kettles were formerly hung over open fireplaces. Now superseded by Hanglers.—N.W., obsolete.

      Colley. (1) A collar.—N. & S.W. *(2) Soot or grime from a pot or kettle (A.B.). Compare:—

      'Brief as the lightning in the collied night.'—Midsummer Night's Dream.

      'Thou hast not collied thy face enough.'—Jonson's Poetaster.

      Colley-maker. СКАЧАТЬ