Flinders, flying pieces of a body smashed; "Hit it all to flinders."
Flounce, a flying fall as into water.
Flout, a flinging, or blow of one.
Flush, fledged.
Footy, unhandily little.
G.
Gally, to frighten, fray.
Gee, jee, to go, fit, speed.
Giddygander, the meadow orchis.
Gil'cup, gilt cup, the buttercup.
Girt, great.
Glēne (2), to smile sneeringly.
Glutch, to swallow.
Gnang, to mock one with jaw waggings, and noisy sounds.
Gnot, a gnat.
Goo, go.
Goocoo flower, Cardamine pratensis.
Goodnow, goodn'er, good neighbour; my good friend; "No, no; not I, goodnow;" "No, no; not I, my good friend."
Goolden chain, the laburnum.
Gout, an underground gutter.
Grægle, Greygle, the wild hyacinth, Hyacinthus nonscriptus.
Gramfer, grandfather.
Ground-ash, an ash stick that springs from the ground, and so is tough; "Ground the pick," to put the stem of it on the ground, to raise a pitch of hay.
Gwoad (8, 4), a goad.
H.
Hacker, a hoe.
Hagrod, hagridden in sleep, if not under the nightmare.
Haïn (5, 1), to fence in ground or shut up a field for mowing.
Ha'me, see Hau'm.
Hangèn, sloping ground.
Hansel, Handsel, a hand gift.
Hansel, Handsel, to use a new thing for the first time.
Happer, to hop up as hailstones or rain-drops from ground or pavement in a hard storm, or as down-shaken apples; to fall so hard as to hop up at falling.
Haps, a hasp.
Ha'skim, halfskim cheese of milk skimmed only once.
Hassen, hast not.
Haum, Hulm, Haulm, the hollow stalks of plants. Teätie haum potatoe stalks.
Hatch, a low wicket or half door.
Haÿmeäkèn, haymaking.
The steps of haymaking by hand, in the
rich meadow lands of Blackmore, ere
machines were brought into the field, were
these:—The grass being mown, and laying
in swath it was (1) tedded, spread evenly
over the ground; (2) it was turned to dry
the under side; (3) it was in the evening
raked up into rollers, each roller of the
grass of the stretch of one rake, and the
rollers were sometimes put up into hay
cocks; (4) in the morning the rollers were
cast abroad into pa'sels (parcels) or broad
lists, with clear ground between each two;
(5) the parcels were turned, and when dry
they were pushed up into weäles (weales)
or long ridges, and, with a fear of rain, the
weäles were put up into pooks, or big peaked
heaps; the waggon (often called the plow)
came along between two weäles or rows of
pooks, with two loaders, and a pitcher on
each side pitched up to them the hay of
his side, while two women raked after
plow, or raked up the leavings of the
pitchers, who stepped back from time to time to
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Hazen, to forebode.
Hazzle, hazel.
Heal (2), hide, to cover.
Heal pease, to hoe up the earth on them.
Heän (1, 4), a haft, handle.
Heft, weight.
Herence, hence.
Here right, here on the spot, etc.
Het, heat, also a heat in running.
Het, to hit.
Heth, a hearth, a heath.
Hick, to hop on one leg.
Hidelock, Hidlock, a hiding place. "He is in hidelock." He is absconded.
Hidybuck, hide-and-seek, the game.
Hile of Sheaves, ten, 4 against 4 in a ridge, and 1 at each end.
Ho, to feel misgiving care.
Hodmadod, a little dod or dump; in some parts of England a snail.
Holm, ho'me, holly.
Hook, to gore as a cow.
Honeyzuck, honeysuckle.
Ho'se-tinger, the dragon-fly, Libellula.
Horse does not mean a horse,
but is an adjective meaning coarse or big of its kind, as in horse-radish, or horse-chesnut;
most likely the old form of the word gave name to the horse as the big beast where there was not
an elephant or other greater one. The dragon-fly is, in some parts called the "tanging ether" or
tanging adder, from tang, a long thin body, and a sting. Very few Dorset folk believe that
the dragon-fly stings horses any more than that the horse eats horse-brambles or horse-mushrooms.
Hud, a pod, a hood-like thing.
Ho'se, hoss, a board on which a ditcher may stand in a wet ditch.
Huddick (hoodock), a fingerstall.
Hull, a pod, a hollow thing.
Humbuz, a notched strip of lath, swung round on a string, and humming or buzzing.
Humstrum, a rude, home made musical instrument, now given up.
J.
Jack-o'-lent, a man-like scarecrow.
The true Jack-o'-lent was, as we learn from Taylor, the water poet, a ragged,
lean-like figure which went as a token of Lent, in olden times, in Lent processions.
Jist, just.
Jut, to nudge or jog quickly.
K.
Kag, a keg.
Kapple cow, a cow with a white muzzle.
Kern, to grow into fruit.
Ketch, Katch, to thicken or harden from thinness, as melted fat.
Kecks, Kex, a stem of the hemlock or cowparsley.
Keys, (2), the seed vessels of the sycamore.
Kid, a pod, as of the pea.
Kittyboots, low uplaced boots, a little more than ancle high.
Knap, a hillock, a head, or knob, (2.) a knob-like bud, as of the potatoe. "The teäties be out in knap."