158 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Tommy-bag. The bag in which labourers take food out with them. N.W. 
Tommy-hawk. A potato hacker. See Hacker. N.W. 
Toppings. Bran and mill-sweepings ground up together. N.W. 
Totty, Tutty, Tutto. A nosegay. Used all over Wilts, in slightly 
varying pronunciations, the stress sometimes falling on the first and some- 
times on the last syllable. An apple tree in full blossom is “‘ all a totty.”’ 
At Hungerford the tything-men are known as Tutti-men, and carry 
Tutti-poles, or wands wreathed with flowers. N. & S.W- 
Touchwood. A boy’s game, in which the pursued endeavours to escape by 
touching wood, 1.e., tree or post, before his pursuer can seize him. N. & 8.W. 
Toward. (1) Order to a horse to come towards you. N.W. 
(2) Hence applied to anything near or leaning towards you. (Great 
Estate, ch. 8.) N.wW. 
Towardly. Docile, as opposed to froward. N.W. 
Traipse, Traipsey. (1) 2. A slattern. N.W. 
(2) To walk in a slatternly manner ; used chiefly of women. N.W. 
*Trammel Hawk. Falco peregrinus, Peregrine Falcon. (Birds of 
Wilts, p. 72.) S.W. 
Trant. To move goods. NW. 
Tranter. A haulier. N.W. 
. Tree-mouse. Certhia familiaris, the Common Creeper. (Birds of Wilts, 
p. 259.) S.W. 
*Trendle. A circular earthwork. ‘‘Chisenbury Camp, or Trendle, as it is 
vulgarly called.” (Britton’s Wilts,,p. 407.) 
Trian gle. ‘* To plant cabbages triangle,” to set them in guincunz order. N.W, 
Trig. To fasten, make firm. (Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxii., p. 113.) N.W. 
Trigger. The rod let down to “trig up” the shafts of a cart. N.W. 
*Trim-tram. A gate which swings in a V-shaped enclosure of post and 
rail, so as to prevent cattle from passing through. N.W. (Cherhill.) 
Trip. To take off in jumping. N.W. 
Tripping. The “ take-off” in jumping. (Bevis, ch. 5.) N.W. 
Trounce. To have the law of a man, to punish by legal process (A.B.) ; 
never used of physical punishment. N.W. 
Truckle-cheese. A small barrel-shaped cheese of about 6 or 8lbs. N.W. 
Truckles. ‘‘Sheep’s-truckles,” sheep dung ; the usual term in N. Wilts. 
Trumpery. Weeds growing in cultivated ground. N.W. 
Tuck. (1) “To tuck a rick,” to pull out the uneven hay all round the sides, 
