A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire - LightNovelsOnl.com
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Sense _v._ to understand
Seven-sleeper _s._ dormouse
Shab _s._ itch or mange in brutes _adj._ Shabby
Shaff-Tuesday _s._ Shrove-Tuesday
Shalder _s._ rush, sedge growing in ditches
Sham _s._ a horse-hoe
Share, Sheare _s._ the quant.i.ty of gra.s.s cut at one harvest, a crop
Sharps _s._ shafts of a cart
Shaul _v._ to sh.e.l.l, to shed the first teeth
Shaw _v._ to scold sharply
Sheen _adj._ bright, s.h.i.+ning
Sheer _s._ a sheath, ex. Scissis-sheer
Shelving-stone _s._ a blue tile or slate for covering the roofs of houses
Shod _part. of v. to shed_ ex. No use crying for shod milk
Showl _s._ for shovel
Shrig _v.a._ to shroud or trim a tree
Shrowd, Shride _s._ loppings of trees
Shuckning _adj._ shuffling
Shut _v._ to weld iron
Shuttles, s.h.i.+ttles _s._ floodgates
Sife, Sithe _v._ and _s._ to sigh
Sig _s._ urine (Dutch _v. zeycken_)
Silch, Sulch _v._ to soil, daub
Silker _s._ a court card
'Sim t' I it seems to me
Simlin _s._ a kind of fine cake intended for toasts
Sin, Sine _conj._ since, because
Sinegar _s._ the plant stocks
Singlegus _s._ the orchis
Skag _s._ a rent, tear, wound
Skenter, Skinter _adj._ relaxed, as applied to oxen
Skiff-handed _adj._ awkward
Skiffle _s._ as to make a skiffle, to make a mess of any business
Skiffling _s._ the act of whittling a stick
Skilly _s._ oatmeal porridge
Skimps _s._ the scales and refuse of flax
Skimmerton-riding _s._ the effigy of a man or woman unfaithful to marriage vows carried about on a pole accompanied by rough music from cows'-horns and frying-pans. Formerly it consisted of two persons riding on a horse back to back, with _ladles_ and _marrow-bones_ in hand, and was intended to ridicule a hen-pecked husband
Skir _v._ skim, mow lightly, as thistles
Skir-devil _s._ a black martin, swift
Skirrings _s._ hay made in pasture lands from the long gra.s.s left by the cattle
Skitty _s._ a water-rail
Skitty-vamps _s._ laced half boots
Skred, Skride _v._ to stride
Slat, Slate _v._ to split, crack, crumble
Slate _s._ a sheep-run. Slated _adj._ accustomed to, contented
Slerib _s._ a spare rib of pork
Sley for "as lief," ex. I would sley do it as not
Sliden, Slidder, Slither _v._ to slide
Sliver _s._ a thin slice
Slock _v._ to encourage the servants of other people to pilfer
