A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire - LightNovelsOnl.com
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Stagnated _adj._ astonished
Stang _s._ a long pole
Stap _v._ for to stop
Stare-basin, Glow-basin _s._ glow-worm
Stean _v._ to stone a road. Steaned _part. s._ a large stone pitcher (Dutch _steen_)
"Upon an huge great earthpot stean he stood"
(Spenser, Faery Queene)
Steanin _s._ a stone-pitched ford
Steeve _v._ to dry, to stiffen (Dutch _styven_)
Stickle _s._ shallow rapids in a stream. Steep _adj._ steep as a hill
St.i.tch _s._ a shock of corn, ten sheaves
Stive _v._ to keep close and warm
Stiver _s._ a bristling of the hair
Stocky _adj._ short, stumpy
Stodge _s._ thick slimy mud _adj._ miry; ex. "Pendummer, where the Devil was stodged in the midst of zummer"
Stodged _adj._ stuffed with eating
Stool _s._ the stock of a tree cut for underwood
Stoor, Storr _v._ to stir, move actively (Dutch _stooren_)
Stomachy _adj._ proud, haughty
Stout _s._ a gnat-fly
Strablet _s._ a long, narrow strip
Strame _s._ a streak, mark, trace _v._ to trace (Dutch _stram_)
Straw-mote _s._ a bit of straw
Strickle _adj._ steep as the roof of a house
Strod _s._ a leathern buskin worn by peasants
Strout _v._ to strut, stand out stiff
"Crowk was his hair, and as gold it shon And strouted as a fan large and brode"
(Chaucer, Miller's Tale)
Stub-shot _s._ the portion of the trunk of a tree which remains when the tree is not sawn through
Stun-pole _s._ a stupid fellow
Stwon _s._ stone Stwonen _adj._
Suant _adj._ even, regular, applied to rows of beans or corn; grave as applied to the countenance (Fr. _suivant_)
Sull _s._ plough-share (A S _sul_)
Suma _s._ a small cup made of blue and white stoneware
Surge _v._ and _s._ to bear heavily on, impetuous force
Swallow-pears _s._ service-pears, sorb-apples
Swather, or Swother _v._ to faint (A S _sweothrian_)
Sweem _v._ to swoon. Sweemy, Sweemish _adj._ faint (Dutch _swiim_)
Sweet-harty _v._ to court. Sweet-harting _s._ courts.h.i.+p
Swile _s._ soil, also Swoil-heap
Swill, Swell, Zwell _v._ to swallow
Tack _s._ a shelf, bacon-rack. Clavy-tack chimney-piece
Taffety _adj._ nice in eating
Tallet _s._ the s.p.a.ce next the roof in out-houses (Welsh _tavlod_)
Tame _v._ to cut, to have the first cut (Fr. _entamer_)
Tanbase _s._ unruly behaviour
Tan-day _s._ the second day of a fair
Tang _s._ to tie; that part of a knife which pa.s.ses into the haft
Tave _v._ to throw the hands about wildly
Tavering _adj._ restless in illness
