Carriage. A water-course, a meadow-drain (A. B. G. H. Wr.). In S. Wilts the carriages bring the water into and through the meadow, while the drawn takes it back to the river after its work is done.—N. & S.W.
Carrier, Water-carrier. A large water-course (Wild Life, ch. xx).—N. & S.W.
Carry along. To prove the death of, to bring to the grave. 'I be afeard whe'er that 'ere spittin' o' blood won't car'n along.'—N.W.
Cart. 'At cart,' carrying or hauling, as 'We be at wheat cart [coal-cart, dung-cart, &c.] to-day.—N.W.
Casalty. See Casulty.
Cass'n. Canst not (A.S.).—N. & S.W.
Cassocks. Couch-grass.—S.W. (Som. bord.).
Casulty. (1) adj. Of weather, unsettled, broken (Green Ferne Farm, ch. i). Casalty (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 109).—N. & S.W. (2) Of crops, uncertain, not to be depended on. Plums, for instance, are a 'casalty crop,' some years bearing nothing.—N.W.
*Cat-gut. The ribs of the Plantain leaf; so called by children when drawn out so as to look like fiddle-strings (Great Estate, ch. ii).