356 PROVINCIALISMS. 



STARK; tight; complete; not lax: as a 

 rope; ftark with fevere exercife; ftark mad. 



To STAUP ; to liff the feet high, and tread hea- 

 vily, in walking. 



STEATHING; a lath and plaifter partition. 



To STECK ; to fhut, as a door or a gate. 



STEG ; a gander. 



STEVVQN; a loud voice. 



STIDDY (that is, Jleady) ; the common name of 

 an anvil. 



STOOK ; fhock ; twelve fheaves of corn fet up 

 together in the field. 



STOOP j a pqft ; as, a yat-ftoop," a gate-port 5 

 " ftoops and rails," ppfts and rails. 



STON YHARD ; litbofpermum arvenfe ; corn gromwell, 



Tp STOOR ; to rife up in clouds, as fmoke, duft, 

 fallen lime, &c. 



STORM; afalloffnow. 



STOT ; a fteer, or young o?:. 



STOVEN ; a fhoot of a tree. 



STOWER.: a ftaff, or round flick j as, a heck- 

 ftower," a rack-ftafF. 



To STRAMA'SH : to crufh, or break irreparably ; 

 to deftroy. 



STREEA; ftraw. 



STRICKLE ; an appendage of the fithe ; the 

 tool with which it is whetted ; made, here, in a 

 peculiar manner : a fquare piece of wood, work- 

 ed off at one end to a point ; the other end forms 

 a handle : the furfaces indented with the point of 



a fickle ; 



