llocking _adj._ rude, romping
Bumtowel _s._ long-tailed tit
Bungee, (g hard), _adj._ short and squat
Burcott _s._ a load
Burge _s._ bridge
Burr _s._ a sweet-bread
Bursh _s._ brush
Busket _s._ a bush or brake
But _s._ a basket for catching salmon; also a bee-hive. But, for Put, a
heavy cart
Butter and Eggs _s._ toad-flax, _linaria vulgaris_
Button stockings _s._ gaiters
Butty _s._ a partner
Buzzies _s._ flies
Byes _s._ furrows
By-now, a short time ago
Caddle _s._ bustle, ex. We'rn jussy caddle to-day
Cadock _s._ a bludgeon, a short thick club
Cag _v._ to annoy, vex
Cag _v._ to irritate
Callenge _s._ and _v.a._ challenge
Cal-home, or Cal-over _v._ to publish or call the banns of marriage for
the last time
Callyvan' or Carryvan, also Clevant and Vant, a pyramidal trap for
catching birds, quy. _colly fang_, (A S _fangen_, to take)
Cannel, Cannal _s._ the faucet of a barrel--tap-and-canal
Car _v._ to carry, ex. Cassn't car'n?
Carry-merry _s._ a kind of sledge used in conveying goods
Carvy-seeds _s._ carraway seeds, (_carvi sem_:)
Cauk _v._ to turn down the ends of shoes for a horse to stand on ice
Caxon _s._ a sorry wig
Chaccle _v._ to caccle as a hen
Chaity _adj._ careful, nice, delicate
Chaine _s._ a weaver's warp
'Ch'am, (A S _ic eom_: Germ. _Ich bin_) I am. 'Ch'ave, I have. 'Ch'ad,
I had. 'Ch'ool, I would. Uch'll go, I will go. "Chill not let go, zir,
without vurther 'casion." Shaks. Lear, iv, 6. This form occurs chiefly
in the neighbourhood of Merriott.
Cham _v._ To chew
Charm _s._ confused noise as of birds
Cheaymer, Chimmer _s._ a bed-room
Cheese-stean _s._ a wring or press for cheese
Chibbole _s._ (Sp. _cepolla_, Fr. _ciboule_) a young onion, before the
bulb is fully formed
Chilbladder _s._ a chilblain
Chilver, (A S _cilfer-lamb_), an ewe lamb. Pur, the male lamb
Chilver-hog and Pur-hog, sheep under one year old
Chine _s._ that part of a cask which is formed by the projection of the
staves beyond the head. Chine-hoops top-hoops
Chissom, Chism _v._ to bud, to shoot out; also, _s._ a bud
Chowr _v._ to grumble, to mutter (A S _ceorian_, to murmur)
Clam _v._ to handle in a slovenly manner
Clamper _s._ a difficulty, ex. I zined once and a got meself in jissey
clamper I never w'ont zine nothing no more
Claps _v._ clasp
Clathers _s._ clothes or rags
Clavy, a sh
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