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Wilts . . . . first signified the small croft or close where the sheep 
were brought up at night, and secured from danger of the open fields.” 
Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities. N. & 5.W. 
*Barle y-bigg. A variety of barley. (Aubrey’s Wilts IS.) 
*Barley Sower. Larus canus, the Common Gull. (Birds of Wilts, 
p. 534). S.W. 
Barm. The usual Wilts term for yeast. (A.B.) N. & S.W. 
*Barn-barley. Barley which has never been in rick, but has been kept 
under cover from the first, and is therefore perfectly dry and of high value 
__ for malting purposes. (Great Estate, ch. 8.) 
b Basket. In some parts of S. Wilts potatoes are sold by the “ basket,” or three- 
peck measure, instead of by the “sack” or the “ bag.” 
7 Bat-folding net. The net used in “ bird-batting,” g.v. (A.): more usually 
_ *clap-net.” 
Bat-mouse. The usual N. Wilts term for a bat. 
Batt. A thin kind of oven-cake, about as thick as a tea-cake, but mostly 
crust. N.W. 
_ *Battledore-barley. A flat-eared variety of barley. (Aubrey’s Wilts Us,) 
Baulk, See Corn-baulk. 
Bavin. An untrimmed brushwood faggot (A-B.); the long ragged faggot 
with two withes, used for fencing in the sides of sheds and yards ; sometimes 
also applied to the ordinary faggot with one withe or band. N. & S.W. 
Bay. (1) m. A dam across a stream or ditch. N.W. 
(2) vw. “To bay back water,” to dam it back. N.W. 
. (3) m. The space between beam and beam in a barn or cows’ stalls. N.W. 
~*Beak. (1) ». To chop up with a mattock the rough surface of land that is 
to be reclaimed, afterwards burning the parings. (Agric. of Wilts, ch, 12.) 
See Burn-beak. 
*(2) m, The curved cutting mattock used in “beaking.” (Zdid, ch. 12.) 
(3) . The ploughed land lying on the plat of the downs near Heytes- 
bury is usually known as the Beak, or Bake, probably from having 
been thus reclaimed. 
Beat. “To beat clots,” to break up the hard dry lumps of old cow-dung lying 
about in a pasture. N.W. 
secall. To abuse, to call names. ‘She do becall I shameful.” N.&S.W. 
BC wind, Bedwine. Clematis Vitalba, L., Traveller’s Joy. S.W. 
se-flower. Ophrys apifera, Huds., Bee Orchis. S.W. 
