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Tag. (1) When a lawn-mower or barrow is too heavy for one man to 
manage alone, a rope is attached for a boy to draw by, who is said to “pull 
tag.” N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
(2) A game played by boys. One touches another, saying Tag! and 
the touched person has then to run after and touch another, who becomes 
i Tag in his turn. N. & S.W. 
Tail. (1) The whole skirt of a woman’s dress. N. & S.W. 
(2) ‘‘Seconds” of flour (Great Estate, ch. 6); also Tailing- 
flour. N.W. 
(3) Tail-ends or Tailings. Refuse wheat, not saleable in market, kept 
for consumption on the farm (A.B.); also Tail and ailing- 
wheat. N.W. 
Take up. Of weather, to become fine. 5 N. & S.W. 
Tallet, Tallot. A hbay-loft over a stable. (A.B.) N.W. 
_ Tang. () “To tang the bell,” to pull it. (A.) N.W. 
(2) ‘‘To tang bees,” to follow a swarm beating a fire-shovel or tin 
pan. (A.B.) N.W. 
(3) A small Church bell is a T'ing-Tang. N.W. 
*Tankard. A sheep-bell. (Great Estate, ch. 6.) 
*T are. (1) Convolvulus sepium, L., Great Bindweed. (D.) 
(2) C. arvensis, L., Small Bindweed. (D.) 
*Tasker. A tramping harvester or casual labourer who works by the piece. 
(Agric. of Wilts, p. 24.) 
Tear. (1) A rage. ‘He wur in just about a tear.” S.W. 
(2) InN. Wilts old folk used formerly to tear their crockery, and break 
their clothes. 
~Teart. (1) Painfully tender, as a wound. (A.) ow. 
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(2) Stinging, as a blister. N.W. (Rowde.) 
(3) Tart, as beer turning sour. S.W. 
Ted. To throw about hay for the first time. (D.) N. & S.W. 
Teel, Tile. To place anything leaning against a wall. (A.B.H.) N.W. 
Teft. The same as Heft. (A.B.) N.W. 
‘Temper. “To temper down dripping,” to melt it and refine with water. N.W. 
Temtious. Tempting, inviting. N. & S.W. 
*Temzer. A riddle or sieve. (MS. Lansd.) Obsolete. 
Tentful. Attentive, careful. N.W. 
‘Terrible. Extremely. ‘‘ This be a terr’ble bad harvest.” N. & S.W. 
