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until they look smooth and even. N.W. 
; (2) Yo smart with pain. (H.) N.W. 
; Tuffin, Tuffin- hay, Tuff-mowing. Late hay made of the rough grass 
; left by the cattle. Turvin. (Great Estate, ch. 4.) N.W. 
Tugs. Pieces of chain attached to the hames of the thiller, by which he 
draws. N.W. 
Tump. A hillock. (A.) N.W. 
Tumpy. Hillocky, uneven. (A.) : N.W. 
Tun. Chimney, chimney-top. (A.B.) N.W. 
*Turf, Refuse oak-bark from the tanner’s, made into cakes for firing. ( A.B.H.) 
*Turnpike. A wire set across a hare’s run. (Amateur Poacher, chs. 2 and 
7.) N.W. 
Twinge. A long flat cake or loaf of bread. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
*T wire. To look wistfully at anything. (A.B.) 
Twit. In cider-making, the same as Perkins. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
T’year. This year. (A.) N. & S.W. 
Unbelieving. Of children, disobedient. N. & S.W. 
Unked. Lonely (4.B.), but always with an idea of uncanniness underlying it. 
(Gamekeeper at Home, ch. 4.) Also Unkid, Unkerd, Unket. N.W. 
Upping-stock. A horse-block. (A.B.) N.W. 
Y. Many words, as Voreright, usually pronounced with a V., will be found 
under fF’, 
Vag. The modern mode of reaping with hook and crooked stick, chopping the 
straw off close to the ground, so as to leave little orno stubble. (Walks 
in the Wheat-fields.) N.& S.W. 
Vageing-hook. The hook used in vagging. N. & 8.W. 
q Vagegine-stick. The crooked stick with which the corn is drawn towards 
; _ the reaper in vagging. (Amateur Poacher, ch. 4.) N. & S.W. 
 *Valiant Sparrow. Yuna torquilla, the Wryneck. (Birds of Wilts, 
p- 257.) 
a *Vamplets. Rude gaiters to defend the legs from wet. (A.H.) cf Bams. 
‘ Veer. (1) 2». A furrow. N.W. (Glouc. bord.) 
(2) v. “ To veer out the rudges,” to mark out with the plough the “rudges ”’ 
or “‘lands”’ before ploughing the whole field. N.W. 
 Velt. The Ficldfare. Turdus pilaris (Wild Life, ch. 16), the usual name for 
q the bird in N, Wilts, there being a few local variants, as Vulver at Huish 
and Veldever at Clyffe Pypard. Veldvare, (Wilts Tales, p- 
177.) N.W. 
