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Carpenters about Marlborough usually reduce the word to a single letter in 



making up their accounts, as : — " To a new R to Cow-lease gate, etc." N.W. 



(Marlborough ; Huish ; Clyffe Pypard.) 

 liatch. (3) Add (after "door ") :— over which you must step to enter. 

 Jday-hoilie. " It was the last day of the hay -harvest — it was ' hay-home ' 



that night." — K. Jefferies, A True Tale of the Wiltshire Labourer. 

 jday-maklllg'. Add -. — Ruller is pronounced as if it rhymed with collar. 



Hay is "put in rollers," or " roUered up." 

 He-body. A woman of masculine appearance. S.W. (Deverill.) 



He-woman. The same as He-body. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, etc.) 



Head. The front upright timber of a gate. See Har and Falling- 



pOSt. N.W. (Marlborough; Huish; Clyffe Pypard.) 



Heartless. "A heartless day" is a wet day with a strong south-west 



wind. S.W. 



Heater (pronounced Setter). A flat-iron. N. & S.W. 



Helyer. A tiler. An old word, but still in use. 

 Here and there one. " I wur mortal bad all the way [by sea] and as 



sick as here and there one." N. & S.W. 



Here right. Add :— This very spot (^Slow). S.W. 



Hike off. Add :-s.w. 



Hit. V. To pour out or throw out. " You ought to het a quart o' drenk into 

 'ee." " Hit it out on the garden patch." N.W. 



Hodmedod. A snail. N.W. (Mildenhall.) 



Hog. (2) Add : — " We have wether hogs, and chilver hogs, and shear hogs 

 . . . . the word hog is now applied to any animal of a year old, such 

 as a hog bull, a chilver hog sheep." — Wilts Arch. Mag., xvii., 303. 



" 1580 .... Una ovis vocata a hogge." — Scrope's History of 

 Castle Combe. 



HogO. (Fr. haict gout). A bad smell {Monthly Mag., 1814). Still fre- 

 quently used of tainted meat or strong cheese. N. & S.W. 



Home, to be called. To have the banns of marriage published. S.W. 



Hook. Of a bull, to gore. N. & S.W. 



Hookland. Add -. — Sometimes defined as "land tilled every year." 



Horse-stinger. Add-.—^M. 



*Horse's-leg (Sa^e's-Zaj^r). A bassoon. S.W. 



Houssett, Add :— Mr. F. M. Willis points out that Swedish httsera and 

 Germ, hausen both have " to make a noise " among their meanings. See 

 article on The Wooset in Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. i., p. 88. , 



