Saat. 'Saat bread,' soft, sweet puddingy bread, which pulls apart in ropes or strings, made from 'grown-out' wheat. Cp. Halliwell (s.v. Sad): 'Sad bread, panis gravis, Coles.' See Zaad-paul.
Sails. The upright rods of a hurdle (D.). Hurdle-zailin', sing. (Clyffe Pypard).—N.W.
Sally-withy. A willow (A.H.Wr.). A curious reduplication, both parts of the word having the same meaning in Anglo-Saxon.
Sar. (1) To serve (S.) or feed (Wilts Tales, p. 112). 'Sar the pegs, wull 'ee,' i.e. 'Give them their wash.'—N. & S.W. (2) ''Twon't sar a minute to do't,' will not take a minute.—N.W.
Saturday's Pepper. Euphorbia Helioscopia, L., Sun-spurge (English Plant Names). Saturday-night's-pepper (Village Miners).
Sauf. As if (S.). 'Looks sauf 'twur gwain to rain.'—N. & S.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)
Scallot. Quarrymen's term for one of the upper beds of the Portland series—a fine white stone (Britton's Beauties of Wilts, vol. iii).
Scambling. 'A scambling meal,' one taken in a rough and hurried way.—N.W.
'In the Percy Household Book, 1511, "Scamlynge days" is of constant occurrence for jours maigres.'—Smythe-Palmer.
Scat. v. To whip, beat, smack, slap.—S.W., occasionally.