'At Kington Langley ... the revel of the village was kept on the Sunday following St. Peter's Day (29th June), on which occasions a temporary officer called "the Peter-man" used to be appointed, bearing the office, it may be presumed, of master of the sports.'—Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxiv. p. 83.
Peth. The crumb of bread.—N.W.
Pethy. Crumby, as 'a pethy loaf.'—N.W.
Pick. (1) A hay-making fork (A.B.D.), a stable-fork (D.). Pick=pitch, as in pitch-fork (Skeat).—N. & S.W. (2) The fruit of the sloe.
Picked (two syll.). (1) Sharp-pointed. Piggid on Som. bord. 'Thuck there prong yun't picked enough.'—N. & S.W. (2) Looking ill (S.). With features sharpened by ill-health. See Peakid.—N. & S.W.
Pickpocket. Capsella Bursa-pastoris, L., Shepherd's Purse.—N. & S.W. (Enford, Mere, &c.)
Picky. See Peakid.
*Pie-curr. Fuligula cristata, Tufted Duck (Birds of Wilts, p. 190).—S.W.
Pig-all, Pig-haw. Fruit of the hawthorn (A.). Peggles (Jefferies, Marlborough Forest, &c.)—N.W.