88 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Backside. The back-yard of a house. (A.B.) N. & S.W., now obsolete. 
Backsword. Single-stick. (A.H.) N.W., now obsolete. 
*Bad, Bod. To strip waluuts of their husks. (A.B.) Obsolete. 
*Badger. A corn-dealer (A.B,) ; used frequently in old accounts in N. Wilts, 
but now obsolete, Prof. Skeat refers it to F. bladier, but Rev. A. Smythe 
Palmer suggests O.E. bager, buyer, A.S. bycgan, to buy. Obsolete. 
Bag. (1) v. To cut peas with a double-handed hook. (Aubrey’s Wilts MS.) 
of. Vag. 
(2) m. The udder. (A.B.) N.W. 
Bake-faggot. The same as Faggot, gv. N.W. 
Ballarag, Bullyrag. To abuse or scold at anyone. N. & SW. 
Balm of Gilead. Melittis Melissophyllum, L., Wild Balm. 
Bams. Rough gaiters of pieces of cloth wound about the legs, much used by 
shepherds and others exposed to cold weather. ef. Vamplets. N. &S.W. 
Bandy. A species of Hockey, played with bandy sticks and a ball or piece 
of wood. N.W. 
Bane. Sheep-rot. Baned. Of sheep, afflicted with rot (A.B.) N.W. 
Bang-tail, or Red Fiery Bang-tail. Phenicurus ruticilla, the 
Redstart. N.W. (Wroughton.) 
*Bannet-hay, A rick-yard. (H.) 
Bannis. Gasterosteus trachurus, the Common Stickleback (A.B.H.) ; also 
Bannistickle (A.B.) and Bantickle (A.) S.W. 
*Bannut, Fruit of Juglans regia, L., the Walnut. (A.B.) 
*Barber’s Brushes. Dipsacus sylvestris, L,, Wild Teasel. (Flower’s 
Flora of Wilts. Brushes. N.W. 
Barge. (1) x. The gable of a house. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
(2) vw. Before a hedge can be “laid,” all its side, as well as the rough 
thorns, brambles, etc., growing in the ditch, must be cut off. This is called 
“barging out” the ditch. N.W. 
Barge-hook. The iron hook used by thatchers to fasten the straw to the 
woodwork of the gable. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard). 
Barge-knife. The knife used by thatchers in trimming off the straw round 
the eaves of the gable. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Bargin. The overgrowth of a hedge, trimmed off before “laying.” N. & S.W. 
Barken. The enclosed yard near a farm-house (A.B.) ; Rick-Barken, 
a vick-yard (A.), also used without prefix in this sense. (Wilts Tules, p. 
121.) “Barken, or Bercen, now commonly used for a yard or backside in 
