ROBERT RAWLINSON.
In the neighbourhood of Canterbury we have the following.
Nail-bourn is the name given to an intermittent land-spring, showing itself at uncertain intervals. There is one in the parish of Petham, another near Sir John Honywood's at Evington, and a third at Barham.
To chastise is commonly used in the sense of to tax, or to charge, a man; and is probably a mere corruption of to catechise.
Gazel is the Kentish word for the black currant.
To get lucker means to get loose or flabby.
To terrify is used almost universally for to tease, to irritate.
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I beg to forward for "N. & Q.," according to the suggestion of MR. RAWLINSON, a few provincialisms. I know not whether my orthography is correct, as I have never seen the words written, and therefore only spell them according to the sound.
Critch (Hants): any earthenware vessel; a jar.