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

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СКАЧАТЬ astoor, very soon, Berks, or astore, Hants:—

      'The duck's [dusk] coming on; I'll be off in astore.'

      A Dream of the Isle of Wight.

      It might then mean either 'this moment' or 'for a moment.'

      At. (1) 'At twice,' at two separate times. 'We'll ha' to vetch un at twice now.'—N.W. (2) 'Up at hill,' uphill. 'Th' rwoad be all up at hill.'—N.W.

      Athin. Within (A.B.).—N. & S.W.

      Athout. Without; outside (A.B.S.).—N. & S.W.

      *Attercop. A spider. A.S. atter-coppa.—N.W. (Monkton Farleigh), still in use. Mr. Willis mentions that Edderkop is still to be heard in Denmark.

      *Attery. Irascible (A.B.).

      Away with. Endure. This Biblical expression is still commonly used in Wilts. 'Her's that weak her can't away with the childern at no rate!'

      Ax. To ask (A.B.S.).—N. & S.W.

      *Axen. Ashes (A.B.); Acksen (MS. Lansd.: G.H.Wr.).—Obsolete.

      Babies'-shoes. Ajuga reptans, L., Common Bugle.—S.W.

      Bachelor's Buttons. (1) Wild Scabious (A.B.), Scabiosa arvensis, L., S. Columbaria, L., and perhaps S. succisa, L.—N.W. (2) Corchorus Japonica (Kerria Japonica, L.).—N.W. (Huish.)

      Back-friends. Bits of skin fretted up at the base of the finger-nails.—N.W.

      *Backheave. To winnow a second time (D.).

      Backside. The back-yard of a house (A.B.).—N. & S.W., now obsolete.

      Backsword. A kind of single-stick play (A.H.Wr.). Obsolete, the game being only remembered by the very old men. For an account of it see The Scouring of the White Horse, ch. vi.—N.W.

      Bacon. To 'strick bacon,' to cut a mark on the ice in sliding; cf. to strike a 'candle.'—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

      Bacon-and-Eggs. Linaria vulgaris, Mill., Yellow Toadflax. Also called Eggs-and-Bacon.—N. & S.W.

      *Bad, Bod. To strip walnuts of their husks (A.B.H.Wr.); cf. E. pod.—N.W., obsolete.

      *Badge. v. To deal in corn, &c. See Badger.—Obsolete.

      '1576. Md. that I take order of the Badgers that they do name the places where the Badgers do use to badge before they resieve their lycens. … Md. to make pces [process] against all the Badgers that doe badge without licence.'—Extracts from Records of Wilts Quarter Sessions, Wilts Arch. Mag. xx. 327.

      *Badger. A corn-dealer (A.B.); used frequently in old accounts in N. Wilts, but now obsolete.

      '1620. Itm for stayeinge Badgers & keepinge a note of there names viijd.'—F. H. Goldney, Records of Chippenham, p. 202.

      Compare bodger, a travelling dealer (Harrison's Description of England, 1577), and bogging, peddling, in Murray. (Smythe-Palmer).

      Bag. (1) v. To cut peas with a double-handed hook. Cf. Vag.

      'They cannot mow it with a sythe, but they cutt it with such a hooke as they bagge pease with.'—Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 51, ed. Brit.

      (2) n. The udder of a cow (A.B.).—N.W.

      Bake, Beak. (1) v. To chop up with a mattock the rough surface of land that is to be reclaimed, afterwards burning the parings (Agric. of Wilts, ch. xii). See Burn-beak. *(2) n. The curved cutting mattock used in 'beaking' (Ibid. ch. xii). (3) n. The ploughed land lying on the plat of the downs near Heytesbury, in Norton Bavant parish, is usually known as the Beäk, or Bake, probably from having been thus reclaimed. In the Deverills parts of many of the down farms are known as the Bake, or, more usually, the Burn-bake.—S.W.

      Bake-faggot. A rissole of chopped pig's-liver and seasoning, covered with 'flare.' See Faggot (2).—N.W.

      Ballarag, Bullyrag. To abuse or scold at any one (S.).—N. & S.W.

      Balm of Gilead. Melittis Melissophyllum, L., Wild Balm.

      Bams. Rough gaiters of pieces of cloth wound about the legs, much used by shepherds and others exposed to cold weather. Cf. Vamplets.—N. & S.W.

      'The old man … had bams on his legs and a sack fastened over his shoulders like a shawl.'—The Story of Dick, ch. xii. p. 141.

      Bandy. (1) A species of Hockey, played with bandy sticks and a ball or piece of wood.—N. & S.W. (2) A crooked stick (S.).

      Bane. Sheep-rot (D.). Baned. Of sheep, afflicted with rot (A.B.).—N.W.

      Bang-tail, or Red Fiery Bang-tail. Phoenicurus ruticilla, the Redstart.—N.W. (Wroughton.)

      *Bannet-hay. A rick-yard (H.Wr.).

      Bannis. Gasterosteus trachurus, the Common Stickleback (A.B.H.Wr.). Also Bannistickle (A.B.), Bantickle (A.Wr.), and *Bramstickle (S.). 'Asperagus (quoedam piscis) a ban-stykyll.'—Ortus Vocab. A.S. bán, bone, and sticels, prickle. (See N.E.D.).—S.W.

      *Bannut. Fruit of Juglans regia, L., the Walnut (A.B.).

      Bantickle. See Bannis.

      *Barber's Brushes. Dipsacus sylvestris, L., Wild Teasel (Flower's Flora of Wilts). Also Brushes.—N.W.

      Bargain. A small landed property or holding. 'They have always been connected with that little bargain of land.'—N.W., still in use. Sir W. H. Cope, in his Hants Glossary, gives 'Bargan, a small property; a house and garden; a small piece of land,' as used in N. Hants.

      Barge. (1) n. The gable of a house. Compare architectural Barge-boards.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) v. Before a hedge can be 'laid,' all its side, as well as the rough thorns, brambles, &c., growing in the ditch, must be cut off. This is called 'barging out' the ditch.—N.W.

      Barge-hook. The iron hook used by thatchers to fasten the straw to the woodwork of the gable.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

      Barge-knife. The knife used by thatchers in trimming off the straw round the eaves of the gable.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

      Bargin. The overgrowth of a hedge, trimmed off before 'laying.'—N. & S.W.

      Barken. The enclosed yard near СКАЧАТЬ