A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire - LightNovelsOnl.com
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Tawl-down _v._ to strike or smooth down a cat's back
Teak _s._ a whitlow
Teap _s._ a point, peak
Teart _adj._ sharp, sour, painful
Ted _v._ to turn hay or flax to dry. Ted-pole the pole used for the purpose
Teg _s._ a last year's lamb not sheared
Teem _v._ to pour out
Terrible _adv._ intensitive, ex. Terrible good
Thic, Thicky, Thicky-there, Thick.u.my, Thick.u.my-there _p.r.o.n._ that (Chaucer _thilk_)
Thiller _s._ the shaft horse
Thill-harness opposed to trace harness
Tho _adv._ then, ex. I couldn't go tho, but I went afterwards
Thong _v._ to stretch out into viscous threads or filaments
Thongy _adj._ viscid, ropy
Thornen _adj._ made of thorns
Thurt _v._ to thwart, to plough crossways
Thurt-handled _adj._ thwart-handled
Thurt-saw _s._ a thwart-saw, a cross-cut saw
Tilty _adj._ irritable, _i.e._, easily tilt or lifted up
Timmern _adj._ wooden
Timmersom _adj._ timorous
Tine _v._ to light, ex. Tine the candle (root of tinder) _v._ a tooth as of rake or spear (A S _tine_)
Tine-in _v._ to shut, to enclose. Tinings _s._ enclosures (A S _tynan_)
Tip-and-tail heels over head
t.i.tty-todger _s._ a wren
To appended to adverbs, as where-to, to-home, to-year, to-week, as to-day
Toak _v._ to soak
Toggers _s._ the handle-pieces of the scythe
Toke _v._ to glean apples
Toll _v._ to decoy, entice, ex. A bit o' cheese to toll down the bread wi'
Toll-bird _s._ a decoy bird
Tongue, or Tonguey _v._ to talk immoderately
Tossity _adj._ drunken ('tossicated)
Tranter _s._ a carrier. Coal-tranter a beggar
Trapes _s.v._ a slattern, to walk in the dirt
Trendle _s._ a brewer's cooler of an oval form
Trig _v._ to prop up _adj._ sound, firm, well in health, neat, tidy
Trig-to _v._ to open, set open, as a door
Trill _v._ to twirl
Trop intj. used by riders to excite a dull horse
Tuck _v._ to touch
Tucker _s._ a fuller, also Tucking-mill
Tun _s._ upper part of the chimney
Tunnegar _s._ a wooden funnel
Tup _s._ a ram
Turmets, Turmits _s._ turnips
Turve _s._ turf
Tut _s._ a ha.s.sock
Tutty _s._ flower. Tutty-more flower-root
Tut-work, Tuck-work _s._ piece-work
