GLOSSARY. 



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Wall-plait, 148. The wooden frame 

 that runs along the top of the wall. 

 Bur. Household Book. 



Waster, 7. One that eats without get- 

 ting fat. See Hunter's Hallamshire 

 Glossary. 



Way-gate, 74. Departure. 



Wearinge, 6. Of a sheep's teeth, bor- 

 rowed from the nautical phrase to 

 "wear round." 



Weekinesse, 75. Juicy, soft, and 

 watery. 



Welke, 31. To dry, wither. 



Well-happed, 17. Warmly covered, 

 well defended. 



White rymes, 77. Hoar frost, now 

 called '' white imes." 



Whollily, 4. Entirely, altogether. 



Wigger, 133. Strong. 



WiKEs, 35. A mark used in setting 

 out tithes. Qu. quasi part of a quick 

 hedge. Q) 



WiLFE, 41. The willow. 



Win, 38. To make firm land of wet 

 marshy^ground. 



Windle-straw, 76. A grass formerly 

 very plentiful on the wolds, and no't 

 unlike an ear of oats, which, when 

 shaken by the wind, has a peculiar 

 whistling or ringling sound, whence 

 one of its present names " ringle- 

 straw." It is also called '■^doddering 

 dillie, dothering Dick, and trembling 

 Jockey, " and is the briza or quaking 

 grass. 



WiNDROWE, 33. The form into which 

 hay is thrown both to resist the wind 

 and to be gathered into pike by the 

 hay-rake or siocep. 



Wreathes, 61. The wisps of plaited 

 straw of which a bee hive is made. 



Wykes, 14. The curners of the mouth. 



Wynder cloes, 172. A cloth for win- 

 nowing com. 



Y. 



Yerens, 172. Kennet. 

 YowER, 7. The udder of a cow. 



