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Webster gives this meaning as common in England, but not in the 
United States, though he quotes W. Irving as writing “ starving with 
cold as well as hunger.” 
Strouters, the outside piles of a wharf, which are larger and stronger 
than the inner ones which are called shores. According to Wright in 
the Somerset dialect it denotes anything that projects. 
Swinge, a form of s/nge, pronounced obsolete, but preserved in 
various English Provincial dialects, is the only one heard here. It is 
an ancient if not the original form of the word. Thus Spencer says, 
‘* The scorching flame sore swinged a1 his face.” 
Tull Tib’s eve, an old English expression equivalent to the “ Greek 
Kalends,” meaning never, is found here. The origin of the phrase is 
disputed. The word 77d is said to have been a corruption of the proper 
name Tabitha. Ifso the name of that good woman has been sadly 
profaned, for it came to signify a prostitute 
“« Every coistrel 
That comes inquiring for his tib.”—Shakespeare, Pericles. 
But St. Tib is supposed by some to be a corruption of St. Ubes, 
which again is said to be a corruption of Setubal. This, however, gives 
no explanation of the meaning of the phrase, and there is really no saint 
of the name. To me the natural explanation seems to be, that from 
the utter unlikelihood of such a woman being canonized, persons would 
naturally refer to her festival, as a time that would never come. 
Tilt, a log house such as lumbermen use ; a rough temporary shelter, 
like a shanty in Canada, only instead of being built of logs laid hori- 
Zonally one on the other, it is usually composed of spruce or fir wood 
placed vertically, and covered with bark. In Anglo-Saxon it appears as 
telt and telde, from telden, to cover. According to the dictionaries from 
Johnson, it is used to denote a tent, an awning or canopy, as over a 
boat. 
Troth plight, one espoused or affianced. So Shakespeare 
This your son-in-law 
Is troth plight to your daughter.— Winter's Tale. 
Tussock, a bunch or tuft of grass. It is marked in the dictionaries 
as obsolete, but it is still in use in Newfoundland to denote the matted 
tufts of grass found on the bogs. 
Yafjle, an armful, applied especially to gathering up the fish which 
have been spread out to dry, a small yaffle denoting as many as can be 
