150 Contr'ihuiions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 



Eylden within the Manner of Ogburne near adjoyning to His Majesties 

 Chace being a place that in winter time was a special and usual succour for 

 preserving the breed of young deer belonging to the Chace."— Extract from 

 Bond V. Goddard and others, 1636. See Wilts Arch. Mag., xxiii., 259. 

 " Its a gwain to rain, for the wind's down in the succours," i.e., hollows 

 and sheltered places generally. N.W. (Huish.) 



Suck-blood. The Common Leech. S.W. 



*Summer-ground. " A custom upon two farms .... of feeding 

 six oxen through the full range of all the summer ground belonging to the 

 hither Beversbrook .... being the Home Close, the Middle .Marsh' 

 the Course Marsh, the Upper Lease, and Brewer's Lease ; through the full 

 range likewise of such summer grounds as belong to the yonder Beversbrook 

 to be put in at Mortimers Gate and to feed to Burfurlong Corner, through 

 all the afore mentioned grounds from the third of May to Michaelmas." — 

 Silmarton Parish Terrier, 1704. See Wilts Arch. Mag., xxiv., 126. 



*Swaft. Add -.—'PyohdiUy from Fr. soif.—Smythe-Palmer. 

 OWank. To work in a slow lazy fashion, to idle. " Her hain't no good for 

 your place, ma'am, her do go swanking about so over her work." S.W. 



(Salisbury.) 

 A nasalized form of snack, seen in Scotch, swack, weak, feeble, hence 

 remiss, — Dutch, zwak, — Germ, schwach, weak, — Gothic, siukan, to be 

 weak. — Smythe- Palmer. 



*Swanky. Weak beer. S.W. 



fewa-Sil or iSWOSh. A rush of water, etc. "A man in answer to my 

 question of how the rain seemed to fall, said, ' It came down in swashes,' 

 and I think it may also be said that occasionally the wind came in swashes 

 too."— The Great Wiltshire Storm, Wilts Arch. Mag., vi., 380. N.W. 



SweGt-briar. The young succulent suckers of any rose, which are peeled 

 and eaten by children. N.W. (ClyfPe Pypard.) 



Tail. (3) ^c^c^ :— Tailens. N.&s.w. 



Tallet. Add -.-S.W. 



*Tamed. "By that time the ground will be tamed." Said in Lisle's Htis- 



bandry to be a Wilts agricultural term, but not there explained. 

 Tan. Then is so pronounced, in such expressions as Now-an-Tan. Also see 



Twitch-an'-Tan. 



Tazzle. n. " Her hair be aal of a tazzle," in great disorder, all tangled and 

 knotted and tousled. N.W. 



Teg-man. A shepherd. " I am a teg-man (or shepherd) in the employ of 

 Mr. y^h.iiQ."— Wilts County Mirror, 28th October, 1892, p. 8, col. 5. S.W. 



(Salisbury.) 



