136 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Pin-bone. The hip bone ; sometimes the hip itself. Pins. Thehips. A 
cow with hips above its back is said to be “high in the pins.” N.W. 
Pineushion. (1) Anthyllis vulneraria, L., Kidney Vetch. S.W. (Barford.) 
(2) Scabiosa arvensis, L., Field Scabious. S.W. (Charlton.) 
Pinner. A servant’s or milker’s apron, a child’s pinafore being generally 
called Pinney. N. & S.W. 
Pinny-land. Arable land where the chalk comes close to the surface, as op- 
posed to the deeper clay land. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Pip. The bud of a flower. (B.) ; N.W. 
*Pish ! or Pishty ! Acalltoadog. (A.) 
Pissabed. Leontodon Taraxacum, L., Dandelion, from its diuretic effects. 
N.&S.W. 
*Pissing-candle. The least candle in the pound, put in to make up the 
weight. (Kennett’s Paroch. Antig.) O.F. poia, pois. Obsolete. 
Pit. (1) 2. A pond. N.W. 
(2) m. The mound in which potatoes or mangolds are stored. (Agric. 
of Wilts, ch. 7.) N. & S.W. 
(8) v. “To pit potatoes,” to throw them up in heaps or ridges, in field 
or garden, well covered over with straw and beaten earth, for keeping 
through the winter. N. & 8.W. 
Pitch. (1) x. A steep place. N.W. 
(2) m. “A pitch of work,” as much of the water-meadows as the water 
supply will cover well at onetime. (Agric. of Wilts, ch. 12.) S.W. 
(3) m2. The quantity of hay, etc., taken up by the fork each time in 
pitching. (Gamekeeper at Home, ch. 4.) N. & S.W. 
(4) v. To load up wheat, etc., pitching the sheaves with a fork. N. & S.W. 
(5) v. To fix hurdles, etc., in place. (Bevis, ch. 23.) N. & S.W. 
*(6) v. To settle down closely. “Give the meadows a thorough good 
soaking at first . . . . to make the land sink and pitch closely to- 
gether.” (Agric. of Wilts, ch. 12.) 
*(7) v. To lose flesh, waste away. ‘‘ The lambs ‘pitch and get stunted,’ 
and the best summer food will not recover them.” (Agric. of Wilts, ch. 12.) 
(8) v. To set out for sale in market. “There wur a main lot o’ cheese 
pitched s’marnin’.” N. & S.W. 
(9) ». To pave with Pitchin, ¢.v. N.W. 
Pitch-poll. When rooks are flying round and round, playing and tumbling 
in the air (a sign of rain), they are said to be “ playing pitch-poll.” N.W. 
Pitched market, A market where the corn is exposed for sale, not sold 
by sample. (D.) N.W. 
