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Terrify, Add :— " 'Twer mostly losing of a boss as did for 'em, and most 

 al'ays wi' bad sboeing. They gived 'em scant measure— sboed 'em too tigbt, 

 they did, a-terrifying o' the poor hea.sis." —Jonathan Merle, xlviii., 520. 



" Her own folks mightn't a-like so well to come and stay, if ther waa 

 al'ays a terrifying old woman to put up with." — Ibid, liv., 596. 



" Her husband, who had been out in the fields, came home and began to 

 'terrify ' haw" —Marlborough Times, 26th November, 1892. 



Theave. " We have wether bogs and chilver hogs, and shear hogs, ram tegs, 

 and theaves, and two-tooths, and four-tooths, and six-tooths." — Wilts Arch. 

 Mag., xvii., 303. 



Tiddle. Add-.— [2) v. To tickle. S.W. 



^Tiddy. adj. Weakly, delicate. N.W. (Castle Eaton, etc.) 



Tiller. The upper handle of a long sawyer's pit-saw. See BoX. N.W. 



(Clyffe Pypard.) 



Tippem, Tippum. A game played by sis boys, three on each side of the 

 table. The centre one " works the piece," i.e., passes it from hand to hand 

 up and down under his side of the table. Then all the hands are placed on 

 the table, aad the opposite side guesses which hand the " piece " is in, 

 and scores or loses a mark according as the guess is right or wrong. The 

 " piece " may be anything available, from a knife to a pebble or bean. N.W. 



Toad's-meat. Toadstools ; fungi. S.W. 



Toad-stabber. A bad blunt knife. Coramonly used by boys about Clyffe 

 Pypard. N. & S.W. 



Tommy. Food carried out into the fields. N. & S.W. 



Tommy-bag. Add :— s.w. 



Tommy -hacker. The same as Hacker. S.W. (Steeple Ashton.) 



Traipse, (i) Add-.-^.-^. 



(2) Add :— S.W. 

 *Traveller's-ease. Achillea Millefolium, L., Common Yarrow. S.W, 



(Little Langford.) 

 Trendle. Add-.— {2) a trough in which bakers mix their dough. N. &S.W. 

 Trig. " Pretty trig," in fairly good health, S.W. (Steeple Ashton.) 



Truckle, (l) v. To roll. 



(2) n. Anything that may be rolled. 



Truckles. Add :— (2) " To play truckles," to roll anything, such as a reel, 

 the top of a canister, etc., from one player to another, backwards and 

 forwards. ^■^^ 



Truckle-cheese. Add :-s.w. 



Trumpery. Add :— " If he'd a-let TI3 have it rent free first year ('causfr 



