296 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
* A-Drag. A large heavy kind of drag, which soon went out of use. (Agric. 
of Wilts.) Obsolete. 
WA galds. Add :—Perhaps from O. E. aglets, catkins, ete. Aggies in Devon. 
All-a-hoh. Add:—Unevenly balanced, lop-sided. A.S. awoh. “That load 
o’ carn be aal-a-hoh.” 
*A-masked. Add :—‘ Leaving him more masked than he was before.” 
—Fuller’s Holy War, iii., 2. 
Anbye. adv. Some time hence, presently, at some future time. “I be 
main busy now, but I'll do’t anbye.” N.W. 
Anighst. Near. (A.) “ Nobody’s bin anighst us since youcome.” N.&S.W. 
Anneal. A thoroughly heated oven, just fit for the batch of bread to be put 
in, is said to be nealded, 1.€., annealed. S.W. 
Any more than. Add:— Usually contracted into moor’n in N. Wilts. 
Aps. Add :—This is the oldest form of the word, being from A. 8. eps, and 
is in use throughout the South and West of England. In Round About a 
Great Estate it is misprinted asp. 
Arg. To argue, with a very strong sense of contradiction implied. ‘‘ Dwoan’t 
’ee arg at I like that! I tell ’ee I zeed un!” See Down-arg. N.W. 
Astore. Add :—If not an Ivishism, this may perhaps be connected with 
ustoor, very soon, Berks, or astore, Hants :— 
“The duck’s [dusk] coming on; I'll be off in astore.” 
A Dream of the Isle of Wight. 
It might then mean either “this moment” or ‘“ for a moment.” 
Athin. Within (A.B.) N. & S.W. 
Athout. Without; outside (A.B.) N. & S.W. 
*Attercop. Aspider. A.S.atter-coppa. N.W.(Monkton Farleigh), still in use. 
Bacon. To “ strick bacon” to cut a mark on the ice in sliding. cf. to strike 
a candle. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard). 
*Badger. Add :—“1620. Itm for stayeinge Badgers & keepinge a note of 
there names viijd.”—F. H. Goldney, Records of Chippenham, p. 202. 
Bannis. Add :—* Asperagus (queedam piscis) a banstykyll.”—Ortus Vocab. 
A. 8. ban, bone, and stickel, prickle. 
Bargain. A small landed property or holding. “They have always been 
connected with that little bargain of land.” N.W., still in use. 
Sir W. H. Cope, in his Hants Glossary, gives “ Bargan, a small 
property ; a house and garden ; a small piece of land,” as used in N. Hants. 
Bird’s-nest. Add:—The whole tuft is drawn together when the seed is 
ripe, resembling a bird’s nest.’’—Gerarde. 
