35 o PROVINCIALISMS. 



To FOOAZ; to level, with a pair of fhears, the top 



of a fleece of woo!. 



FREM ; ftrange, inimical, not intimate or friendly. 

 To FRIDGE j to chafei tofrift; to wear or injure 



by friction. 

 FRUGGANi an oven-poker : alfo a dirty flovenly 



woman. 



G. 



GAALFAT, or GUILEFAT ; the vat in which 

 new ale is let to ferment; alfotheliquor fermenting. 



GAD; a long team- whip; alfo a fifhing-rod. 



GAIN ; fhort, near; as, the " gaineft way.'* 



GA1RN; yarn. 



GAIT (vulg. feeat) ; ftreetj as weft-gait, caftl- 

 gait*, the town-gait, the gait-door. 



GAIT (vulg. geeat)-, away; as "killing-gait," 

 " goflip-g.iit ;" the names of by-ways acrofs com- 

 mon fields ; alfo " git a gait" go thy way. 



GAIT (pron. gteai] ; a going place; as a < cow- 

 gait j" the going of a cow in a furnmer paflure. 



GAIT (pronounced as 'gate]; a fin.gle fheaf of corn, 

 bound near the top, and fet upon its butts, 



GALLOWAY ; the common name of a poney, or 

 under-fiztd faddle-horfe. 



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* In towns which never were inclofed by a wall ; 

 confequently never had any gates. The interior ilrcets 

 ot York, and perhaps of all old towns in the county, 

 arc called gaits ; improperly gates. 



