Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect - William Barnes - Page №1470
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
William Barnes
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  • Q.
  • Quaer, queer.[page 465]
  • Quag, a quaking bog.
  • Quar, a quarry.
  • Quarrel, a square window pane.
  • Quid, a cud.
  • Quirk, to grunt with the breath without the voice.

  • R.
  • R, at the head of a word, is strongly breathed, as Hr in Anglo-Saxon, as Hhrong, the rong of a ladder.
    • R is given in Dorset by a rolling of the tongue back under the roof.
    • For or, as an ending sometimes given before a free breathing, or h, try ow,—hollor, hollow.
    • R before s, st, and th often goes out, as bu'st, burst; ve'ss, verse; be'th, birth; cu'st, curst; fwo'ce, force; me'th, mirth.
  • Raft, to rouse, excite.
  • Rake, to reek.
  • Ram, Rammish, rank of smell.
  • Rammil, raw milk (cheese), of unskimmed milk.
  • Ramsclaws, the creeping crowfoot. Ranunculus repens.
  • Randy, a merry uproar or meeting.
  • Rangle, to range or reach about.
  • Rathe, early; whence rather.
  • Ratch, to stretch.
  • Readship, criterion, counsel.
  • Reämes, (1, 3), skeleton, frame.
  • Reän (1, 4), to reach in greedily in eating.
  • Reäves, a frame of little rongs on the side of a waggon.
  • Reed (2), wheat hulm drawn for thatching.
  • Reely, to dance a reel.
  • Reem, to stretch, broaden.
  • Rick, a stack.
  • Rig, to climb about.
  • Rivel, shrivel; to wrinkle up.
  • Robin Hood, The Red campion.
  • Roller (6, 4). See Haÿmeäkèn.
    • A Roller was also a little roll of wool from the card of a woolcomber.
  • Rottlepenny, the yellow rattle. Rhinanthus Crista-galli.
  • Rouet, a rough tuft of grass.

  • S.
  • Sammy, soft, a soft head; simpleton.
  • Sar, to serve or give food to (cattle).
  • Sarch, to search.
  • Scote, to shoot along fast in running.
  • Scrag, a crooked branch of a tree.
  • Scraggle, to screw scramly about (of a man), to screw the limbs scramly as from rheumatism.
  • Scram, distorted, awry.
  • Scroff, bits of small wood or chips, as from windfalls or hedge plushing.
  • Scroop, to skreak lowly as new shoes or a gate hinge.
  • Scud, a sudden or short down-shooting of rain, a shower.
  • Scwo'ce, chop or exchange.
  • Settle, a long bench with a high planken back.
  • Shard, a small gap in a hedge.
  • Sharps, shafts of a waggon.
  • Shatten, shalt not.
  • Shroud (trees), to cut off branches.
  • Sheeted cow, with a broad white band round her body.
  • Shoulden (Shoodn), should not.
  • Shrow, Sh'ow, Sh'ow-crop, the shrew mouse.
  • Skim, Skimmy, grass; to cut off rank tuffs, or rouets.
  • Slaït, (5, 1) Slite, a slade, or sheep run.
  • Slent, a tear in clothes.
  • Slidder, to slide about.
  • Slim, sly.
  • Sloo, sloe.
  • Slooworm, the slow-worm.
  • Smame, to smear.
  • Smeech, a cloud of dust.
  • Smert, to smart; pain.
  • Snabble, to snap up quickly.
  • Snags, small pea-big sloes, also stumps.
  • Sneäd (1, 4), a scythe stem.
  • Snoatch, to breathe loudly through the nose.
  • Snoff, a snuff of a candle.
  • Sock, a short loud sigh.
  • Spur (dung), to cast it abroad.[page 466]
  • Squaïl (5, 1), to fling something at a bird or ought else.
  • Squot, to flatten by a blow.
  • Sowel, Zowel, a hurdle stake.
  • Sparbill, Sparrabill, a kind of shoe nail.
  • Spars, forked sticks used in thatching.
  • Speäker (1 4), a long spike of wood to bear the hedger's nitch on his shoulder.
  • Spears, Speers, the stalks of reed grass.
  • Spik, spike, lavender.
  • Sprack, active.
  • Sprethe (2), to chap as of the skin, from cold.
  • Spry, springy in leaping, or limb work.
  • Staddle, a bed or frame for ricks.
  • Staïd (5, 1), steady, oldish.
  • Stannèns, stalls in a fair or market.
  • Steän (1, 4) (a road), to lay it in stone.
  • Steärt (1, 4), a tail or outsticking thing.
  • Stout, the cowfly, Tabanus.
  • Stitch (of corn), a conical pile of sheaves.
  • Strawèn, a strewing. All the potatoes of one mother potatoe.
  • Strawmote, a straw or stalk.
  • Strent, a long slent or tear.
  • Streech, an outstretching (as of a rake in raking); a-strout stretched out stiffly like frozen linen.
  • Stubbard, a kind of apple.
  • Stunpoll (7), stone head, blockhead; also an old tree almost dead.

  • T.
  • th is soft (as th in thee), as a heading of these words:—thatch, thief, thik, thimble, thin, think, thumb.
  • Tack, a shelf on a wall.
  • Taffle, to tangle, as grass or corn beaten down by storms.
  • Taït, to play at see-saw.
  • Tamy (3, 1), tammy (5, 1), tough, that may be drawn out in strings, as rich toasted cheese.
  • Teäve, (1, 3), to reach about strongly as in work or a struggle.
  • Teery, Tewly, weak of growth.
  • Tewly, weakly.
  • Theäse, this or these.
  • Theasum (1, 4), these.
  • Tidden (tidn), it is not.
  • Tilty, touchy, irritable.
  • Timmersome, restless.
  • Tine, to kindle, also to fence in ground.
  • Tistytosty, a toss ball of cowslip blooms.
  • To-year, this year (as to-day.)
  • Tranter, a common carrier.
  • Trendel, a shallow tub.
  • Tump, a little mound.
  • Tun, the top of the chimney above the roof ridge.
  • Tut (work), piecework.
  • Tutty, a nosegay.
  • Tweil, (4, 1) toil.
  • Twite, to twit reproach.

  • U.
  • Unheal, uncover, unroof.