240 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
difficulty of finding it; but the name may have come from a time when the 
wares offered in August would include preparations for winter evenings. — 
Wilts Notes and Queries, No. 5, p. 23. 
*Candle-tining. Evening. See Tine. (1) N.W. (Gloue. bord.) 
Candlemas bells. Galanthus nivalis, L., Snowdrop. N.W. (Glouc. bord.) 
Casulty. (1) Add :—A\so applied to timber of doubtful soundness. 
Cank. (1) ddd :—* You'll cank me to death,” talk me to death, surfeit me 
with gossip. N. & S.W. 
(3) To gossip. “She’sallus a canking wi’ thuck thur gel next door.” N.W. 
Catch. (2) Add :—Of ground, to get hard. N. & 8. W. 
“An inexperienced man neglects to roll down his furrows, and finds after 
a few days of dry and sunny weather that the clods are ‘ caught,’ and cannot 
be reduced until rain again falls.’—Marlborough Times, 14th March, 
1891. N. & 8. W. 
*Cattern-tide. The Feast of St. Katherine, when the well-known Cattern — 
Cakes were made.— Wilts Notes and Queries, No. 1, p. 8. “7 
Charm. Add :—Sometimes Churm is used. 
“The birds . . . wurael in a churm.”—Ashen Faggot. 
Chatter-water. Tea. (Wilts Arch. Mag., xxx., 125.) N. & S.W. 
Cheeper. Anthus pratensis, Meadow Pipit. (Birds of Marlborough.) N.W. 
Chicken-corn. Very poor corn, only fit for feeding fowls. ‘‘ The second 
share has only yielded chicken-corn.”— Wilts County Mirror, 27th Sept., 
1895, p. 2. 
Chimp. (2) Add :—N.W. (Chippenham.) 
Chism, Add :—*(2) To strip potatoes of their sprouts. (Hist. of Chipp.) 4 
Chit-Jack. The same as Shitsack. 
Chitterlings. Add :—At Deverill the intestines of calves are known as 
Calves’ Chadlens. 
Choke-sparrow. Bearded wheat, which it is said birds find a difficulty in 
swallowing. N. & S.W. - 
Christmas. Holly, when used for Christmas decorations. “Why, you 
haven’t a bit o’ Christmas about the house yet.” N. & SW. 
*Chuek-board. See quotation :— 
“Labourers playing at “chuck-board,” which consists in casting a small 
square piece of lead on to certain marked divisions of a shallow tray-like box _ 
placed on the trestle table.” —Jefferies, Great Estate, ch. 4, pp. 67-8. . 
Chump-head. A stupid person, a dullard. S.W. 
