A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire - LightNovelsOnl.com
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Busket _s._ a bush or brake
But _s._ a basket for catching salmon; also a bee-hive. But, for Put, a heavy cart
b.u.t.ter and Eggs _s._ toad-flax, _linaria vulgaris_
b.u.t.ton stockings _s._ gaiters
b.u.t.ty _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-ca.n.a.l
Car _v._ to carry, ex. Ca.s.sn'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 shelf. Clavel-tack, a mantel-piece, a place where keys (_claves_) are kept, a shelf for keys. Holmen-clavel, an inn on Blagdon hill, so called from having a large _holm-beam_ supporting the mantel-piece
Cleve-pink, or Cliff-pink, a species of pink growing wild in the Cheddar cliffs, _dianthus deltoides_
Clim, Climmer, Climber _v._ to climb. Clammer _s._ a worn footpath up a steep bank
Clinkers _s._ hoof marks. Clinker-bells, icicles
Clint, or Clent _v._ to clench
c.l.i.t _v._ c.l.i.tty _adj._ applied to bread not properly kneaded
c.l.i.ttersome _adj._ troublesome
Clivver-and-s.h.i.+ver _adv._ completely, totally
Clize, Clice _s._ a swinging door, or valve of a dike or rhine, (A S _clysing_)
Cloam, Cloamen, coa.r.s.e earthen ware
