GIT, GAT, GITTEN—Get, got, gotten. These is o’ i’ full go, an’ gitten is oft used for seized or taken, e.g., Ah was nearly gitten that time.
GIAT—Way. Thoo’s allus i’ somebody’s giat.
GIAT—Road, street, thoroughfare. Every Lakeland town has its street named after some distinctive gate, and every village its toon-giat.
GIAT—Pasturage; coo-giat is pasturage for a cow, mostly a common claim; sheep-giat, gius-giat, an’ seea on. Also see Whittle-gate.
GIAT—The opening made by a saw. Run a saw-giat doon ’t.
GIT-OWER—To get the better of anyone in a bargain. When they git ower thee they’ve nobbut anudder ta git ower.
GIZZUN, GIZZUN’D—To choke. Dry taties ’ll mak ye gizzun. Ah war varra nar gizzun’d wi’ lime stoor.
GIRDEN—Girden an’ laughen at somebody ’at hez hed nobbut a bit o’ baddish luck—say they’re tummel’d inta t’ sump—is t’ sign ov a wake knowledge box.
GISS-NER-STYE—Ye shoot giss when ye want t’ swine to come, an’ stye when ye want it ta gang, an’ them’s o’ t’ remarks a swine wants frae ye; hooivver, when ye say nowt ta neeabody aboot nowt, but keep mum an’ whiat, this yan co’s in. Ah said nowder giss-ner-stye, but let him deea o’ t’ camplin hissel.
GISS—What we shoot when we want t’ pigs ta come an’ be sarra’d, an’ ye needn’t shoot twice.