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Stived up. Shut up in a warm close place. N. & S.W. 
Stoach. To plant potatoes with a ‘ stoacher.” N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Stoacher. ‘A tater stoacher,” a thick stake, with projecting notch on which 
the foot is placed to drive the sharpened point into the ground. The potatoes 
are dropped into the holes so made. N.W. 
7 Stodge. (1) x. Substantial food. N.W. 
(2) vw. To stuff gluttonously. Stodged, quite unable to cram down 
another morsel. N.W. 
Stodgy. adj. Of food, causing a feeling of repletion. N.W. 
Stogged. Stuck in the mud, bogged. N. & S.W. 
Stomachy. Obstinate, headstrong, self-willed. N. & S.W, 
*Stone osier. Salix purpurea, L. (Gamekeeper at Home, ch. 8.) 
Storm-cock. Turdus viseivorus, Missel Thrush. (Birds of Wilts, p.129.)S.W. 
Stout. The gadfly. (A.B.) ‘The stowuts be so terrifyin’.” N.W. 
Stowl. (1). x. The root of a timber-tree, left in the ground after felling 
(A.B.); the stump of a bush or tree, in hedge or copse, cut off low down so 
as to form a stock from which underwood may spring. (D.) N.&S.W. 
(2) 2 ‘ Tostowl out,” to shoot out thickly, as a bush cut off low down, 
or wheat which has been fed off. N.W. 
Strafe. To wander about. N.W., occasionally. 
Strapper. An Irish harvester or tramping labourer. N.W. 
Strike, Strick. To slip up; to slip and swing out as a vehicle does when 
turning a corner fast on a slippery road. ‘‘She strick up on that there 
slide, an’ come down flop.” N. & S.W. 
Strommelling. *(1) Awkward, ungainly. (A.B.H.) 
*(2) Unruly. (A.B.H.) 
Strong. ** Strong a-dying,” at the point of death. N.W. 
Stub. (1) ». In walking, to strike the foot against a stub or projecting 
root. N.W. 
*(2) v. “To stub off,” to cut offa bush or tree close to the ground. 
(Agric. of Wilts, ch. 10.) 
(3) “Stubs,” stubble, as wheat-stubs, barley-stubs. (D.) N.W. 
*Stuck. A spike. (A.) 
Stud. To ponder over, think about. ‘‘ Don’t’ee stud upon’t so much.” N.W. 
. Studdle. To stir up water so as to make it thick and muddy. N.& S.W. 
7 Studdly. Thick, as beer before it settles after moving. N.W. (Berks bord.) 
~ *Stultch. A crutch, a boy’s stilt. (MS. Lansd.) Obsolete. 
Succour. Shelter. A tender plant is set “in the succour of the wall.” N.W. 
