146 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 



of the Great Park of Fasterne (near Wootton Bassett), 1602. The original 

 document is in the Devizes Museum. N. & S.W. (Baverstock, etc.) 



Scotch. .40?^:— N.W. (Huish.) 



Scramb. Add:—^:w. 



*Scran. Add:—%M. Mr. Slow defines this as " victuals," but it is really 



the bag in which the food is carried. 

 Screechetty. Creaky. S.W. 



Scriggle. To take the last apples. See Grlggles. N.W. 



Scrump. (1) Add:—^:^. 

 Scrupet. Add :— Scrupetty, Scroopedee {Slow), S.W., and 



Scripet, N.W. 



Seg, Sig. Urine. S.W. 



Seg-Cart. The tub on wheels in which urine was collected from house to 



house for the use of the cloth mills. S.W. 



Sewent. Add :— Suant is still in frequent use in S.W. 



*Shab off. To go off {Sloio). S.W. 



Shackle, (l) A hurdle wreath or tie. Add :— S.W. 



(2) "All in a shackle," loose, disjointed. N. & S.W. (Devizes, Huish, 



Salisbury, Clyffe Pypard, etc.) 

 Shaft-tide or Shrift. Shrove-tide. S.W. 



Shaggle. Of a bough, etc., to shake. S.W. 



*Shandy. (P SUndy.) a row about nothing {Sloiv). S.W. 



Shape (pronounced Shap). To manage, arrange, attempt, try. "I'll shap to 

 do't," try to do it. Compare the common use oi frame. N.W. (Devizes.) 



Shard. Add-. — " 1636. Itm. to Robert Eastmeade for mendinge a shard in 

 Englands ijd." — Becords of Chippenham, p. 207. 



Sharps. Add-.—^yf. 



Sharpish. Considerable. "I be eighty-vive to-year, an' 'tis a sharpish 

 age." N.W. (Huish, etc.) 



Sheep. " In the article of sheep what strange nomenclature ! Besides the 

 intelligible names of ram, ewe, and lamb, we have wether hogs, and chilver 

 bogs, and shear hogs, ram tegs, and theaves, and two-tooths, and four-tooths, 

 and six-tooths. So strange is the confusion that the word hog is now applied 

 to any animal of a year old, such as a hog bull, a chilver hog sheep. ' Chilver ' 

 is a good Anglo-Saxon word, ' cylfer,' and means female, so a chilver hog 

 sheep simply means, in the dialect of the Vale of Warminster, a female 

 lamb a year old." — Wilts Arch. Mag., xvii., 303. 



