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Drock. * (2) Add :-N.W. (Castle Eaton, etc.) 



* (3) Omit "probably a mistake," and add :— N.W. (Castle Eaton, etc.) 

 ♦Dromedary, (l) Centaurea nigra, L., Black Knapweed. S.W. (Bar- 

 •^ ford St. Martin.) 



(2) Centaurea Scabiosa, L., Hardheads. S.W. (Barford St. Martin.) 

 Duckstone. A game played by boys with stones. S.W. 



EaSS, sometimes YeeS. An earthworm. ^•^"' 



Eel-SCrade. A kind of eel-trap. " A trap used to catch eels, placed near a 

 weir. The water is turned into the scrade when high, and the fish washed 

 ap to a stage through which the water finds an outlet, the fish, however, 

 being retained on the platform by a piece of sloping iron."— .F. M. Willis. 

 Eel-Sticher. An eel-spear. " Wishing to secure [a Little Grebe] in summer 

 plumage, I asked the old ' drowner ' in our meadows to look out for one for 

 me -and this he very soon did, fishing one out from under the watex between 

 the spikes of his eel-sticher, as it was diving under the \vaiex."— Wilts Arch. 

 Mag., xsii., 193. 

 Elms. Add :— About Marlborough usually pronounced as Yelms, but at 

 Clyffe Pypard there is not the slightest sound of y in it. Elsewhere it is 

 frequently pronounced as Ellums. 

 En. (1) Add.— FdiQQn. 



(2) Add :— Glassen. " There's some volk as thinks to go droo life 

 in glassen slippers." 

 Boarden, made of boards. 

 ♦Falarie. Disturbance, excitement, commotion. "'Look'ee here, there' ve 

 bin a fine falarie about you, Zur.' He meant that there had been much 

 excitement when it was found that Bevis was not in the garden, and was 

 nowhere to be found."— Je/eries, Wood Magic, ch. 2. 

 Falling, n. A downfall of snow. " I thinks we shall have some vallen 

 soon." Only used of snow. N. & S.W. 



Fallino--post. The front upright timber of a gate. Occasionally heard at 

 Huish, Head, however, being the more usual term there. N.W. 



Falsify. Of seeds, young trees, etc., to fail, to come to nought. N.W. 



Fantag, Fanteague, etc. n. Fluster, fuss. {Sloto.) Also used of 

 vagaries or larks, as « Now. none o' your fantaigs here ! " At Clyffe Pypard, 

 N.W., " a regular fantaig " would be a flighty flirting lad or girl, a " wonder- 

 menting or gammotty sort of a chap." N. <» o. . 



Favour To resemble in features, etc " He doesn't favour you, Sir . . . . 

 Ho is his mother's boy." i> . <k o. w . 



