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Rail. Add :—S.W. (Deverill.) 
i Raimy. Add :-—Raimsy at Deverill. 
Rake. 2. This word, heard at Salisbury, would appear to mean an irregularly 
: _ built row of houses. ‘ There'll be a rake o’ houses run up along there.” 
*Rammel-milk. New milk. S.W. (Deverill.) 
Rams-claws. Ranunculus repens, L., Creeping Buttercup. S.W. (Deverill, 
Shrewton, etc.) 
Rappers. Flowers of Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, L. See Wrappers. 
Rate. “ After the rate,” properly, well. “TI likes a thing done a bit aa’ter the 
oe’ rate.” . N.W., (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Rave. (2) v. To fasten a hurdle to its “shore” with a “ rave,” or loop of 
twisted hazel, rope, or wire. S.W. (Shrewton, Heytesbury, etc.) 
Rawney. Add:—Bony. (Hist. of Chipp.) N.W. 
Red Linnet. Linota cannabina, Common Linnet. 
; Red tail. Proenicwra ruticilla, Redstart. 
Reed Sparrow. (1) Hmnberiza schoeniclus, Black-headed Bunting. 
(2) Salicaria arundinacea, Reed Warbler, 
4 evel. Add :—In some recollections of old Wiltshire life, recently published 
in the Devizes papers, ‘‘ Revel” was persistently misprinted as ‘‘ Reach,” a 
“ shost-word” which might prove misleading to some future collector. 
The Revel is generally, if not invariably, held on the day of the saint to 
whom the parish Church is dedicated, very frequently still following the old 
style. 
There is a curious local rhyme in North Wilts, which some suppose to have 
been intended to indicate the order of the various feasts :— 
* Rowde, Potterne, and Marston, 
Little Cheverell, Great Cheverell, and Caaston, 
White Cleeve, Pepper Cleeve, 
Cleeve and Cleeveancy, 
Lyneham and lousy Clack, 
Cus Mavord and Dancy.” 
£ Others, however, consider it as a mere rustic jew d’ esprit. 
Ri ing. Add :—Also 8. Wilts. This noise is made to show your ownership of 
the bees, and is considered as entitling you to enter a neighbour’s garden in 
‘pursuit. There is also a popular idea that the noise will make the swarm 
settle. Cp. :— 
< “Tinnitusque cie, et Matris quate cymbala circum 
Ipse consident medicatis sedibus.”—Virgil, Georg., iv., 64. 
