$12 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
F and v sometimes become ¢h, as thetches for fitches or vetches. 
Th will also occasionally become Ss, as lattermass, latter-math. Con- 
versely, ss becomes th, as moth, moss. 
*Tac. To tease, to torment. (Cunnington MS.) N.W., obsolete. 
*Tawney, Ta’aney. The Bullfinch, Pyrrhula vulgaris. N.W. 
*Thauf. Although. N.W. (Malmesbury.) 
Thimbles. Campanula rotundifolia, L., the Harebell. S.W. (Hamptworth.) 
*Thurindale. Add:—From O.E. thriddendele, a third part. 
Tine. *(8) Add:—‘ To tine in a piece of waste ground is to enclose it 
with a fence of wood or quickset.” (Cunnington MS.) N.W. 
* (5) Add:—In Hants to give the ground two or three ¢inings is to draw 
the harrow two or three times over the same place. (Cope’s Glossary.) 
*Tining. Add :—(2) A fence of wood, either brushwood, pale, or quickset. 
(Cunnington MS.) N.W., obsolete. 
Ting-Tang. A small Church-bell. See Tang. N.W. 
Todge, Add:—N. Wilts. (Cunnington MS.) See Stodge. 
Toll. Add:—A cow given to wandering, when she breaks out of bounds, 
generally ‘‘ tolls”’ the rest of the herd after her. 
Tommy. Food in general. N.W. 
Touch. Coarse brown paper soaked in saltpetre and dried, used instead of 
matches for lighting a pipe in the open air, the spark to kindle it being 
struck with a knife and a flint. Commonly used up to a very recent 
date. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Truckles. Add:—Sheep’s dung is ‘‘trottles” in Linc., and ‘‘ trestles” in 
Suss. 
*T wire. Add :—Compare Prov. Germ. zwiren, to take a stolen glance at 
anything. ‘' How he did twire an’ twire at she, an’ her wouldn’t so much 
as gie’una look!” In Cunnington MS. the word is said to have been in 
common use at that time in N. Wilts. 
“The wench . . . . twired and twinkled at him.”—Fletcher, 
Women Pleased, Al. 
*T wl-ripe. Ripening unevenly. (D.) 
U.. J is often sounded ow, as fowsty, fusty, dowst, dust, or chaff. 
Uck. This very characteristic N. Wilts verb is used in many ways. Stable- 
litter is ucked about with a fork in cleaning out;. weeds are ucked out 
of a gravel path with an old knife; a cow ucks another with a thrust of 
her horn; or a bit of cinder is ucked out of the eye with a bennet. See 
Great Estate, ch. 4, where it is said that anything stirred with a pointed 
