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oheep'bed (SMp-bed). When a labourer had drunk too much, he would 



" take a ship-bed," i.e., lie down like a sheep to sleep in a grass-field, till he 



was sober. N.W., obsolete. 



Shepherd's-Thyme. Add :— S.W. (Bishopstone, Little Langford, etc.) 



Shillibier. A bier on wheels. N.W. (Cly£Ee Pypard, etc.) 



ohinimy. Convolvulus sepium, L., Great Bindweed. Reported to us as 



"Chemise." S.W. (Little Langford.) 



*Shirt-buttonS. Flowers of Stellaria Holostea, Greater Stitchwort. S.W, 



(Deverill.) 

 Sllitsac. Add-.—^.yif. 



fellOg'. To sift ashes, etc., by shaking the sieve. N.W. (Devizes, Huish, etc.) 

 ohore. Add: — "A Mearstone [mere-stone] lying within the Shoore of the 



dyche." — Peramhulation of the Great Park of Fasterne, 1602. 

 Shoulder, to put out the. At Clyffe Pypard and Hilmarton it is 

 customary to ask a man whose banns have been published once — " How his 

 shoulder is P "^because you have heard that it has been " put out o' one 

 side," owing to his having " vallen plump out o' the pulput laast Zunday." 

 Next Sunday will "put'n straight agean." This implies that the banns were 

 formerly published from the pulpit. 



Shrammed. Add :— S.W. 

 Shrift. See Shaft-tide. 



*Shrigging. Hunting for apples (iSZow). See GriggleS and Scriggle. 



S.W. 



Shrimps. A particular kind of sweets. N. & S.W. 



Shrowd. (1) To trim off the lower boughs of a tree. N. 06 S.W. 



(2) To cut a tree into a pollard. N. & S.W. 



Shucks. Husks of oats, etc. S.W. 



Sibilated words. These are somewhat common in Wilts, as Snotch, notch ; 

 Spuddle, puddle ; Scnmck, crunch ; Spyzon, poison ; Spicter, picture. 



Sig. See Seg. 



Sinful-ordinary. Plain to the last degree in looks. " I once knew a young 

 gentleman in the Guards who was very ordinary-looking— what is called in 

 Wiltshire ' sinful ordinary.' "—Illust. London iVceos,23rd March,1889. N.W. 



Skillet. A round pot to hang over the fire. N.W. 



Skilling. Add :-S.W. 



Skimmer-cake. A cake made of odd scraps of dough. See Skimmer- 

 lad. S.W. 



Skippet. The long-handled ladle used for filling a water-cart, emptying a 

 hog-tub, etc. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 



