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Six-penny Madell, Three-penny Madell. 



to get three pieces together in a line anywhere on the dots or holes, while at 

 the same time preventing your adversary from making a line. " Nine- 

 penny," " Sixpenny," and " Three-penny " differ only in the number of 

 men each side and the form of the board (see diagrams). The " board " is 

 scratched or chalked out on paving-stones, drawn on the slate, cut deep into 

 the turf on the downs or the top of the corn-bin (with holes instead of dots), 

 in short, made anywhere and anyhow. The " men " or " pieces " may be 

 anything available, sticks being played against stones, beans against oats, 

 etc. N. & S.W. (Devizes, etc.) 



*Magg0tting. Meddling {Slow). S.W, 



Maggotty. Add:-^Nf. 



*MammOck. v. To pull to pieces. {Leisure Hour, August, 1893). 



N.W. (Castle Eaton, etc.) 

 " He did so set his teeth and tear it ; 0, 1 warrant, how he mammocked 

 it ! " — Shalcespeare, Coriolanus, i., 3. 



Mar, More. Add -.-S.W. 



Occasionally Moir in N. Wilts, as in Crazy-moir. 

 Mealy. Add :— An interesting word, akin to Prov. Germ. Mollig, Millig, 

 Fries. Mollig, soft, Prov. Eug. melsh, soft and mild (of the weather), 

 mellow, Lat. Mollis, etc. ; and so explaining " mealy-mouthed."— (S^wj^^Ae- 

 F aimer. 



Meggy. Add :— Meg. s.w. 



Mere. A boundary line or bank of turf. N. & S.W. 



A turf boundary between the downs on adjoining farms : formed by 

 cutting two thick turves, one smaller than the other, and placing them, 

 upside down, with the smaller one on top, at intervals of about a chain along 

 the boundary line. N.W. (Devizes.) 



" The strips [in a ' common field '] are marked off from one another, 

 not by hedge or wall, but by a simple grass path, a foot or so wide, which 

 they call ' balks ' or ' meres." "—Wilts Arch. Mag., xvii., 294. 



" Two acres of arable, of large measure, in Pen field, lying together and 

 bounded by meres on both sides."— J?i7»iar<o» Parish Terrier, dated 1704. 



" Mere stones" often mark the boundaries of holdings or properties. 



