"RAMASSE, chaise à porteurs, traîneau pour descendre des montagnes où il y a de la neige: descendre une montagne dans une ramasse."
He also says, in defining the meaning of the verb "ramasser:"
"Traîner dans une ramasse: on le ramassa pendant deux heures; quand il fut sur la montagne, il se fit ramasser."
The late Mr. Tarver, in his Dictionnaire Phraséologique Royal, has also the following:
"RAMASSE, s. f. (t. de voyageur), sledge.
"On le ramassa, they conveyed him in a sledge.
"RAMASSEUR, a man who drives a sledge."
D. C.
St. John's Wood, May 4. 1851.
Four Want Way ([Vol. iii., p. 168.]).—Halliwell describes the word "want" as meaning in Essex a cross-road. It is still used here as denoting a place where four roads meet, and called "a four want way." I always fancied it meant a wont way, via solita; but I have no authority for the etymology.
BRAYBROOKE.
Audley End.