Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect - William Barnes - Page №1469
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
William Barnes
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  • L.
  • Läiter (5, 1), one run of laying of a hen.
  • Leän (1, 4), to lean.
  • Leäne (1, 3), a lane.
  • Leäse (1, 4), to glean.
  • Leäse (1, 4), Leäze, an unmown field, stocked through the Spring and Summer.
  • Leer, Leery, empty.
  • Lence, a loan, a lending.
  • Levers, Livers, the corn flag.
  • Lew, sheltered from cold wind.
  • Lewth, lewness.
  • Libbets, loose-hanging rags.
  • Limber, limp.
  • Linch, Linchet, a ledge on a hill-side.
  • Litsome, lightsome, gay.
  • Litty, light and brisk of body.
  • Lo't (7), loft, an upper floor.
  • Lowl, to loll loosely.[page 464]
  • Lumper, a loose step.

  • M.
  • Maesh (2), Mesh, (Blackmore) moss, also a hole or run of a hare, fox, or other wild animal.
  • Mammet, an image, scarecrow.
  • Marrels, Merrels, The game of nine men's morris.
  • Mawn, mān, (5) a kind of basket.
  • Meäden (1, 4), stinking chamomile.
  • Ment (2), to imitate, be like.
  • Mēsh, (2) moss.
  • Mid, might.
  • Miff, a slight feud, a tiff.
  • Min (2), observe. You must know.
  • Mither ho, come hither. A call to a horse on the road.
  • Moot, the bottom and roots of a felled tree.
  • More, a root, taproot.
  • Muggy, misty, damp (weather).

  • N
  • Na'r a, never a (man).
  • Nar'n, never a one.
  • N'eet, not yet.
  • Nēsh (2), soft.
  • Nesthooden, a hooding over a bird's nest, as a wren's.
  • Netlèns, a food of a pig's inwards tied in knots.
  • Never'stide, never at all.
  • Nicky, a very small fagot of sticks.
  • Nïppy, hungry, catchy.
  • Nitch, a big fagot of wood; a load; a fagot of wood which custom allows a hedger to carry home at night.
  • Not (hnot or knot), hornless.
  • Nother, neither (adverb).
  • Nunch, a nog or knob of food.
  • Nut (of a wheel), the stock or nave.

  • O.
  • O', of.
  • O'm (2), of em, them.
  • O'n (2), of him.
  • O's (2), of us.
  • Orts, leavings of hay put out in little heaps in the fields for the cows.
  • Over-right, opposite.
  • Oves, eaves.

  • P.
  • Paladore, a traditional name of Shaftesbury, the British Caer Paladr,
    • said by British history to have been founded by Rhun Paladr-bras, 'Rhun of the stout spear.'
  • Pank, pant.
  • Par, to shut up close; confine.
  • Parrick, a small enclosed field; a paddock—but paddock was an old word for a toad or frog.
  • Pa'sels, parcels. See Haÿmeäkèn.
  • Peärt (1, 4), pert; lively.
  • Peaze, Peeze (2), to ooze.
  • Peewit, the lapwing.
  • Pitch. See Haÿmeäkèn.
  • Plesh, (2) Plush (a hedge), to lay it.
    • To cut the stems half off and peg them down on the bank where they sprout upward.
      To plush, shear, and trim a hedge are sundry handlings of it.
  • Plim, to swell up.
  • Plock, a hard block of wood.
  • Plow, a waggon, often so called.
    • The plough or plow for ploughing is the Zull.
  • Plounce, a strong plunge.
  • Pluffy, plump.
  • Pont, to hit a fish or fruit, so as to bring on a rotting.
  • Pooks. See Haÿmeäkèn.
  • Popple, a pebble.
  • Praïse (5, 1), prize, to put forth or tell to others a pain or ailing.
    • "I had a risèn on my eärm, but I didden praïse it," say anything about it.
  • Pummy, pomice.
    • ps for sp in clasp, claps; hasp, haps; wasp, waps.