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7 Sereech devil. Cypselus apus, the Swift. 
be Screech martin. Cypselus apus, the Swift. 
Sereech owl. s¢rix jlammea, White Owl. 
. Serig. The serag-end of a neck of mutton. N.W. 
'Scriggle. To take the last apples. N&s.w. 
Scrigs. Small fruit left after the gathering of the crops.—Wotes and Queries, 
4 6th Aug., 1881. 
: Scroff. Rubbishy underwood to be cleared away. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Scrow. (1) Add :—8.W. (Deverill.) 
q Serubber. A chain-harrow. S.W. 
4 “Take them [the clods] . . . when just so mellow with the moisture 
_ + they have imbibed as to be soft and friable, and just so dry as not to stick, 
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and a chain-harrow, or ‘scrubber,’ will do more to reduce them than any 
; amount of clod-crushing.’—Marlborough Times, 14th March, 1891. 
Scullery-maid. The Water-Wagtail. N.W. 
j Scurling wheat. Very inferior grain, given to the poultry. See 
‘Tailings. S.W. (Salisbury.) 
‘Scythe. Add:—At Deverill the blade is the Zive, the pole is the 
4 Zive-snead, and the projecting handles thereon are the N ogs. S.W, 
fs eg-cart. Add :—This was a kind of two-wheeled barrow, with an arched 
4 rod across it, from which a tub was suspended. 
Seg-critch. The vessel or tub on a seg-cart. S.W. 
Setting-pin. A gardener’s dibble. N. & S.W. 
~ said to be “ suant.” 
Add :—(3) Sly. 8.W. (Deverill, occasionally.) 
i hame-faced maiden. 4dd:—Ornithogalum wmbellatum, L., Star of 
Bethlehem. S.W. (Shrewton.) 
; Shandy-foo. A Cheverell person said of a féte in a neighbouring parish 
a that there was “so much hollerin’ an’ shoutin’ and shandy-fooin’ at thic 
_ Veast, as you cudden hear nothen!” The Rev. A. C. Smith suggests that 
there may be some connection with chants des fous. 
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Sheening. dd :—S.W. 
1epherds, Folk-lore relating to. In Wilts it was formerly usual to place 
a lock of wool in a shepherd’s coffin, to enable him on the Judgment Day, 
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