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Glossary of Dialect used in This Book

Avroze: frozen, of the weather

Bailey: more properly, a bailiff; one who acted as agent or steward of a landlord

Blood turnip: beetroot

Bridewell: a gaol or prison

Brimstones: a type of moth

Caddle: a muddle

Churched: churching – a blessing ceremony for a new mother

Dirn: doorframe

Doust: dust

Figgety-pudden: plum pudding; the forerunner of Christmas pudding

Goosegogs: gooseberries

Gurt: great or big (of size)

Hob and nob: to chat, gossip or socialise, especially over a drink

I’ll count: I suppose, I concede

I’ll own: I admit, I’ll acknowledge, I’ll own up to

Joppety-joppety: a state of nervous anxiety, jittery

Limber: slim or slender (of a person)

Mazed: crazy, mad, mentally unbalanced

Nammet: lunch; usually taken by a labourer to eat at his place of work

Pummy: the pomace or what remains from the apples pressed for cider making

Quag: a quagmire or bog

Randy: a rustic celebration, often in connection with a wedding or harvest

Shrammed: frozen or cold to the bone (of a person)

Slug-abed: a sluggard or lazy person

Sowbugs: woodlice

Sterlyng: starling

Strickle: a block on which a blade – usually of a scythe or sickle – was sharpened

Summat: something

Turmit: turnip or occasionally, a swede

Vittles: food, provisions or ingredients

Water-meadow: grazing pasture that was flooded during the winter months to give an earlier crop of grass

Werret: to worry or a worry

Withywind: the climbing plant known as Bellbine or Bindweed

Yardstack: a stack of sheaves of grain waiting to be threshed, sited within the protection of a farmyard