Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Part 21

_Pig's-paut_. Pig's foot, a trotter.

_Pismire_. An ant.

_Plasens_. Places. "I've seen many plasens but this licks 'em all."

(See lick.)

_Posy_. A bunch of flowers, bouquet.

_Pry_. Name of a field. Pry-close (from praie, coa.r.s.e gra.s.s.)

_Puddock_. A kite or buzzard.

_Purr_. A poker. "Purr the fire," _i.e._ poke it.

_Quirking_. Nimble, active, as a monkey.

_Ramper_. The highway (probably rampart).

_Remble_, _to_. To move a thing out of the way. "Remble that chair,"

&c.

_Ratle_ or _Reightle_. To set to rights, arrange in order. "La.s.sy, ratle them things."

_Screeved_. Split up on the ice. Cattle in former frozen fen floods were thus ruptured and killed.

_Shale_, _to_. To walk awkwardly, shuffle along.

_Shan_. Shy. Of horses or cattle frightened at an object.

_s.h.i.+ft_, _to_. To move anything to another place.

_s.h.i.+v_ or _s.h.i.+ver_. A splinter of wood. "I've got a s.h.i.+v in my finger."

_Shout_! A flat-bottomed fen boat.

_Shove_, _to_. To push anything along, or out of the way.

_Shugh_! An expression of disbelief. Shugh! Nonsense! I don't believe it.

_Shut_. Rid. To get shut (_i.e._ rid) of anything not needed, or a nuisance.

_Sicker_, _to_. To soak, as water oozing through a rotten bank.

_Sidle_. To walk aside, or indirectly, towards anyone. "Sidle up to her quietly."

_Sile_, _to_. To pour. "It siles wi' rain."

_Skelp_, _to_. To empty a cart by tilting it.

_Skirth_. A fen drain.

_Slape_. Slippery, as roads after frost.

_Slappy_ or _sloppy_. Muddy and moist.

_Slither_, _to_. To slide on ice.

_Slive_, _to_. To slip or creep slowly on. "The night slives on."

_Slosh_. Aslant, as a path running slosh across a field.

_Sloven_. The stump of a tree.

_Smock-raffled_. Taken aback, puzzled.

_Smower_, _to_. To pour over. "Yon tree smowers over wi' fruit."

_Snitchy_. Bad tempered, irritable.

_Soodle_, _to_. To daudle.

_Soodly_. Idle.

_Sooth_. Soft, gentle, of whispers, winds, &c.

_Souse_, _to_. To soak in water, &c.

_Spank_. To strike with flat hand. "Spank the tiresome bairn."

_Splats_. Leggings or gaiters.

_Spry_. Lively, full of spirit.

_Squarls_. Quarrels.

_Stang_. A pole. Only used in eel-stang, a long pole with iron p.r.o.ngs at the end, thrust into the mud to catch eels; and in "riding the stang,"

in the old custom of "rantanning," to serenade with beaten tins and kettles the wife-beater, when a figure was carried disguised as the offender, sitting astride of a long pole.

_Stilted_. Daubed with dirt (stockings, &c.)

_Struttle_. A runnel, small stream between stepping stones.

_Suthering_. Sighing, as the wind in the trees.

_Swads_. Bean pods.

_Swail_. Shade. "Left in the swail," away from the sun.

_Swingle_. A flail.