100 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Cock’s Ege. The small eggs sometimes first laid by pullets. N.W. 
*Cock’s-neckling. “To come down cock’s-neckling,” to fall head fore- 
most. (H.) Obsolete. 
Cock’s-nests. The nests so often built and deserted by the wren, without 
any apparent cause. N.W. 
Cock-shot. A cock-shy: used by boys about Marlborough and elsewhere. 
“T say, there’s a skug [squirrel]—let’s have a cock-shot at him with your 
squailer.”’ 
*Cock-sqwoilin. Throwing at cocks at Shrovetide. (A.) See Squail. 
Obsolete. 
Codlins-and-cream. Epilobium hirsutum, L., Great Hairy Willow-herb ; 
from its smell when crushed in the hand. ef. Sugar-Codlins. S.W. 
Colley. (1) A collar. Colley-maker, a saddler. N. & S.W. 
*(2) Soot from a pot or kettle. (A.B.) 
Colley-strawker. A milker or “ cow-stroker.” N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Colt’s-tail. A kind of cloud said to portend rain. (Great Estate, ch. 8.) N.W. 
*Comb, Coom. The lower ledge of a window. (Kennett’s Paroch. Antiq.) 
Comb-and-Brush. Dipsacus sylvestris, L., Wild Teasel. S.W. 
Combe, Coombe. (1) The wooded side of a hill (D.); used occasionally 
in this sense in both Wilts and Dorset. 
(2) A narrow valley or hollow in a hillside. N. & S.W. 
*Coombe-bottom. A valley in a hillside. (Great Estate, ch. 4.) : 
*(3) A narrow valley in the woodlands. (Gamekeeper at Home, ch. 1.) — 
Come to land. Of intermittent springs, to rise to surface and begin to 
flow. (Agric. of Wilts, ch. 12.) S.W: 
Comical. (1) Queer-tempered. “ Her’s a comical ooman.” N.W. 
(2) Out of health. “ve bin uncommon comical to-year.” N.W. 
(3) Cracky. “ He’s sort 0’ comical in his head, bless ’ee.” N.W. 
Conks, Conkers (i.e., conquerors.) (1) A boy’s game, played with 
horse-chestnuts strung on cord, the players taking it in turn to strike at 
their opponent’s conk, in order to crack and disable it. N.W.(Marlborough.) 
(2) Hence, the fruitofHsculus hippocastanum,L., Horse-chestnut. N.W. 
Coob, A hen-coop (H.): invariably so pronounced. N. & S.W, 
Coom hedder. See Horses. 
‘Coop ! Coop ! The usual call to cows, etc., to come in. N. & S.W. 
*Cooted. Cut slanting, sloped off, as the ends of the upper part of an oblong 
hay-rick. (D.) 
Cord. “A cord of plocks,’”’ a pile of cleft wood, 8ft. long and 4ft. in girth 
and width. (D.) N.W. 
