142 Contributions towarch a Wiltshire Glossary. 



♦Pecker. The nose (Slow). S.W. 



Pelt. A passion. Add :— S.W. 



*Perseen, To pretend to (5^^). S.W. 



*Peter-man. " At Kington Langley .... the revel of the village 

 was kept on the Sunday following St. Peter's Day (29th June), on which 

 occasions a temporary officer called ' the Peter-man ' used to be appointed, 

 bearing the office, it may be presumed, of master of the sports." — Wilts 

 Arch. Mag., xsiv., 83. See Jackson's Aubrey, p. 11. Obsolete. 



Picked. (2) Add :— S.W. 



Pickpocket. Add :— S.W. (Mere.) 



Pigeon-pair. When a woman has only two children, a boy and a girl, they 

 are called a " pigeon-pair." N. & S.W. 



" So in the North of England ' a dow's cleckin,' i.e., a dove's clutch, is 

 used of two children." — Smythe-Falmer. 



Pig meat. The flesh of the pig in Wilts, is, if fresh, " pig meat ; " it is never 

 "pork" unless the animal is specially killed as a "little porker." 



*Pig-muddle. Disorder, mess. N.W. 



Pit-hole. Add :— "They lies, the two on 'em, the fourth and fifth i' the 

 second row, for I dug pit-holes for 'era." — The Story of Dick, vi., 66. N. 



&S.W. 



Pitch. (7) Add :— Still in use in N. Wilts. 



Plan. " In a poor plan," unwell, in a poor way, etc. N.W. (Seend.) 



Plash. Add-.-i^.-^. 



Pleachers. Live boughs woven into a hedge in laying. S.W. 



Plini. Add: — (2) Many years ago, near Wootton Bassett, old Captain 

 Goddard spoke to a farmer about a dangerous bull, which had just attacked 

 a young man. The farmer's reply was : — " If he hadn't a bin a plimmin 

 an' vertin' wi' his stick— so fashion— (i.e., flourishing his stick about in the 

 bull's face,) the bull wouldn't ha' run at un." No further explanation of 

 these two words appears to be forthcoming at present. 



Plouo'h. (1) Add : — "The team of oxen that drew the plough came to be 

 called the plough, and in some parts of South Wilts they still call even a 

 waggon and horses a plough. This is needful for you to know, in case j-our 

 man should some day tell you that ihe plough is gone for coal." — Wilts 

 Arch. Mag., xvii., 303. 



Add:—{^) For the various parts of the old wooden plough see as fol- 

 lows : — " I should like to hear a Wiltshire boy who had been three years at 

 plough or sheep fold, cross-examine one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of 

 Schools, and ask him, in the article of a plough, to be so good as to explain 



