162 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Well-drock. The windlass over a well. S.W. 
Wheat-reed. Straw preserved unthreshed for thatching. (D.) Reed is 
used in Dev. and Som., but not now in Wilts, threshed straw being pre- 
ferred. See K1ms. S.-W. W., obsolete. 
Whicker, Wicker. (1) To whinny as a horse, bleat as a goat, whine as 
a dog, &. (Village Miners; Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxii., p. 114.) N.W. 
(2) To giggle. N.W. 
*(3) “To find a wicker’s nest,” to be seized with an irrepressible fit of 
giggling. (Village Miners.) 
*Whip land. Land not divided by meres, but measured out, when ploughed, _ 
by the whip’s length. (D.) 
Whippence. The fore-carriage of a plough or harrow, ete. (D.) N.W. 
White. flower. Stellaria Holostea, L., Greater Stitchwort. N.W.(Huish.) 
*White-house. A dairy. (H.) 
White Robin Hood. Silene inflata, L., Bladder Campion. S.W.(Zeals.) 
White-wood. Viburnum Lantana, L., Mealy Guelder-rose. W hite- 
weed. S.W. (Farley.) N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
*Whitty-tree. Viburnum Lantana, lu. (Aubrey.) S.W. 
Whiver. (1) To quiver, hover. S.W. 
(2) To waver, hesitate. S.W. 
Wild Asparagus. Ornithogalum pyrenaicum, L., Spiked Star of 
Bethlehem. S.W. (Som. bord.) 
*Wild Willow. Epilobium hirsutum, L., Great Hairy Willow-herb. 
(Great Estate, ch. 2.) 
Will-j ill, An impotent person or hermaphrodite. N.W. 
*Willow-wind. (1) Convolvulus, Bindweed. (Great Estate, ch. 8.) 
(2) Polygonum Fagopyrum, L., Buckwheat. (Ibid.) 
Wim. To winnow. S.W. 
‘Wind-mow, A cock of a waggon-load or more, into which hay is sometimes 
put temporarily in catchy weather (D.), containing about 15cewt. in N. Wilts, 
and a ton elsewhere. 
‘Winter-proud. Of wheat, too rank (D.), as is frequently the case after a 
mild winter. N.W. 
Wirral, Worral, or Wurral. Ballota nigra, L.. Black Horehound. 
S.W. (Som. bord.) 
Withwind, or Withwine. Convolvulus sepium, L., Great Bindweed, 
and: other species (A.): Wave-wine or Witherwine (Cyel. of 
Agric.): Withywind on Som. border. N. & S.W. 
