Nuncheon. Add:—About Salisbury Nuncheon is between 10 and 10.30 a.m., and again at 4 p.m., and is a very small meal, merely a piece of bread and glass of beer, while Nammet is at 12, and is equivalent to dinner.
Off. 'A can't be off puttin' up a covey o' pa'tridges, if so be as a goes whoam athert Four-Acre,' i.e. he cannot possibly help doing it.—N.W.
Out. n. The outcome or result of an attempt to do a thing. 'A offered vor to do some draishin', but a made a ter'ble poor out on't,' i.e. he had little to show for his labour.—N.W.
Parson's nose. A goose's tail, when served up at table.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Peter Grievous. Add:—Children who look as if they thought themselves sadly 'put upon' by their elders are said to be 'Peter-grievous.'
Pigs. (2) Add:—In Berks woodlice are called Church-pigs.
*Pimple, Pumple. The head. Used by children.—S.W. (Deverill).
*Pisty-poll. A child riding with his legs on your shoulders is said to be carried 'a pisty-poll.'—S.W. (Deverill.)
Ploughing terms. The first furrows ploughed are those 'veered out' to mark the 'lands.' On each side of this 'veering out' furrow a fresh furrow is ploughed, turning the earth into it. This is 'topping up,' or 'shutting the top up,' and becomes the centre and highest point of the 'land.' When the 'lands' have been all but ploughed, there remains between them a strip, two furrows wide, still unploughed. This is 'the Ent,' and is halved by the plough, one half being turned up one way, and the other half the other way. There remains then a furrow just twice the ordinary width. The plough is taken down this, and half of it is turned up again on one side, the result being a narrow furrow some inches deeper than any other, called the 'Zid-furrer' or Seed-furrow.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)