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unfamiliar with these terms and not knowing what they meant. The drill- 
sergeant was in despair, when someone suggested that he should get them to 
put a “straw-bam” on one leg and a “ hay-bam” on the other, and then 
give the word of command as “ Straw—Hay,” and they would understand 
. that fast enough ! 
*Bandore. A violoncello. N.W. (Glouc. bord.) 
; *Bandy-loft. A hockey-stick, or bandy-stick. N.W. (Potterne.) 
¥ Barley-dot. A flat cake of barley-meal, baked on the hearth. N.W. (Clyffe 
es Pypard.) 
Barney. adj. Rowdy, noisy. : S.W. 
4 Bash, Bashet. Add :-—At Longbridge Deverill a raised terrace of houses, 
q now pulled down, was known as “The Bash,” or “Baish.” At Harnham a 
raised foot-path is known as “The Bashet,” while at Road some houses on 
___ the upper side of a similar path are said to be “on the Bash.” 
4 *Baulky. Queer. N.W. 
“A bottle nearly full of a liquid which had a peculiar taste. The ganger 
ae remarked that it was rather ‘baulky.’””—Devizes Gazette, 28th May, 
1896, p. 8, col. 3. 
Bay. (3) ddd:—s.w. 
Beckhampton Grey Crow. Corvus cornix, Hooded Crow. (Birds 
a of Marib.) 
Been, Bin. Since, because. “ Bein’ I had a bad leg, I couldn't go.” _ “Bin 
as the path goes athert the groun’, thur baint room for s’many graves.” N. 
& S.W. 
Bin as ever. If ever. N. &S. W. 
““A [the eyclist] come by I wi’ a whish, an’ I never heared un a comin’, 
an’ T’ll warn as that turned every drop o’ blood in my body, made I that 
bad, bless’ee, as I wurn’t right aal day arter’t. An’ when a come by, I says, 
says I,—‘ Bin as ever you comes by [I like that agen, I’ll summons ’ee’— 
___ But thur, bless’ee, he wur a quarter o’ mile on the rwoad avore ever I could 
get it out!” : 
B etle-headed. A “ boitle-yeaded chap,” a blockhead. S.W. 
: eears’-lice. Grass-seeds. N.W. (Glouc. bord.) 
elly-hefft. “To live at belly-heft,” to live in idleness, supported by others, 
but doing no work one’s self. N.W. 
: el. To level a heap of earth. S.W. 
*B bbity-bob, To go. To dance up and down (S.) as a child on the knee. 
* . N. & S.W. 
