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S quail. Add :— (4) Of a candle, to gutter. N. & S.W 



Squailer. Add-.—^ee History of Marlborough College, ch. ix., p. 94; 



also Notes and Queries, 8th S., ii., 149 ; 197 ; 257. 

 Squoil. Add :— Bird-squoilin, killing birds with stones {Slow). S.W. 

 Staicl. Of mature age, elderly. " A staid ooman." N. & S.W. 



Standing. ^A^^^r-Stannen (Slow). S.W. 



btark. V. To dry up. "The ground is got so stark — you see the hot sun 

 after the rain did stark the top on't." N.W. (Hilmarton.) 



Starky. Add:~{2) Shrivelled and wasted by ill-health. N.W. 



btarve. Add •, — " My old man he do starve I wi' the could at nights, 'cause 

 he got a crooked leg, and he do sort o' cock un up 'snaw, and the draaft do 

 get in under the bed-claus, and I be fairly starved wi' the could." 



Strapper. Add :— s.w. 



Steart. Add -. — The small iron rod, on the head of which the cappence of the 

 old-fashioned flail played. N.W. 



Stem. ^rf<^ :— N. & s.w. 



Stobball. Add: — "Illegal games .... mentioned are .... 

 hand-ball, foot-ball, and stave-ball or ' stobball ' ; (pilum manualem, 

 pedalem, sive baculinam), 'nine-holes' and 'kittles.'" — " On the Self- 

 government of Small Manorial Communities, as exemplified in the 

 Manor of Castle Combe." Wilts Arch. Mag., iii., 156. 



Stoggy. Wet and sticky ; used of ground that " stogs " you, or in which you 

 get " stogged." N.W. 



Stomachy. Unbending {Slow). S.W. 



Stone-uruise. Add •. — in an American trouting-yam in Fishing Gazette, 

 17th December, 1892, p. 429, the following occurs : — " It's just the age for 

 ' stone-bruises ' in a boy, and he must have a pair of shoes any way." 

 Striddling. The right to lease fallen apples after the gathering in of the 



crop. Cf Griggling. 



*Strim-strum. adj. Unmusical {Slow). S.W. 



*StrOUter. A strut or support in the side of a waggon {Slow). S.W. 



Stub. A stump of a tree. S.W. 



Stubbed. A " stubbed " broom is one much worn down by use, as opposed 



to a new one. S.W. 



Stud, ^rfrf:— S.W. 

 Stun. V. To make no growth. " Grass stunned in its growth this season." 



(1892.) N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, Potterne, etc.) 



Succour. (1) Add : — " Goddard the elder being a copyholder of lands in 



