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Yaught, Yawt. To swallow, to drink. "There's our Bill— he can yaught 

 down drenk like anything," or "He can yaught a deal." A.S. geotan, to 

 pour. N.W. (ClyfEe Pypard, Huish, etc.) 



Zammy. Add :— (2) n. A simpleton, a soft-headed fellow. S.W. 



" The idea common to both senses is halfness, incompleteness, from Mid. 

 Eug. sam, half (Lat. semi) ; e.g., sam-ded, sam-ope. So half-haked, silly, 

 Lonsdale, hoafen, haXi-wiiiedi." — Smythe-Palmer. 



ADDENDA. 



*BaWSy. Add-. — " I take Borsy to he the more correct form, standing for 

 hur-sy, full of burs (Fr. hourre) : cf. burr ass in Murray, coarse hempen 

 cloth, Fr. hourras." — Smyihe-Palmer. 



*Boreshore. Add :— " This is a kind of hurdle stake which can he used in 



soft ground without an iron pitching bar being required to bore the hole 



first for it. Hence it is called bore-shore by shepherds." — Mr. Slow. 

 Caddie. (3) ^c^rf:— To bother, to worry. " 'Tain't no use caddling I— I 



can't tell 'ee no more." — Greene Feme Farm, ch. 8. 

 Casulty. (1) Add: — "'Fine growing morning, you.' 'Ay, casualty 



weather, though.' . . . . ' Casualty,' used in connection with weather, 



means uncertain." — Ibid, ch. 1. 

 Chinsteys. n. The strings of a baby's cap. N.W. (ClyfEe Pypard.) 



Compare Chingstey, Devon. "Oh! Mo-ather ! Her hath chuck'd me 



wi' tha chingstey [caught her by the poll and choked her with the strings 



of her cap " — The Exmoor Scolding, p. 17. 

 Clote. n. Verbascum Thapsus, L., Great Mullein (Aubrey's Wilts 



MS.). Obsolete. 



Coglers. The hooks, with a cogged bar to adjust the height, by which pots 



and kettles were hung over open grates in cottages. Now superseded by 



H anglers. N.W., obsolete. 



*Crandum. Add-.—^.'W. "I first heard this word near Hungerford, 



where some farm hands were having a spree. There was a sis-gallon jar of 



beer on the table, which they were continually smacking with their hands, 



whilst they sang in chorus : — 



" Let it run down yer crandum, 

 An' jolly will we be," etc. 



I have only heard it applied to the human throat, never to that of an 

 animal." — Mr. Sloto. 



