Taffety. Dainty in eating (S.).—S.W.
Tag. (1) When a lawn-mower or barrow is too heavy for one man to manage alone, a rope is attached for a boy to draw by, who is said to 'pull tag.'—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) n. A game played by boys. One touches another, saying Tag! and the touched person has then to run after and touch another, who becomes Tag in his turn.—N. & S.W. *(3) v. To tease, to torment (C.).—N.W., obsolete.
Tail. (1) n. The whole skirt of a woman's dress. 'Hev 'ee got ar' a owld taail to gie I, Miss?'—N. & S.W. (2) 'Seconds' of flour (Great Estate, ch. vi); also Tailing-flour.—N.W. (3) Tail-ends or Tailings. Refuse wheat, not saleable in market, kept for consumption on the farm (A.B.G.); also Tail, Tailing-wheat, and Tailens (S.).—N. & S.W.
Tail Pole. See Waggon.
*Take. n. The sciatica (Aubrey's Wilts MS.).—Obsolete.
Take up. Of weather, to become fine.—N. & S.W.
Tallet, Tallot. A hay-loft over a stable (A.B.G.S.). Welsh taflod.—N. & S.W. See N. & Q. 8th Ser. iv. 450, &c.
*Tamed. 'By that time the ground will be tamed.' Said in Lisle's Husbandry to be a Wilts agricultural term, but not there explained.
Tan. Then is so pronounced in such phrases as Now'-an'-Tan and Twitch-an'-Tan.