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Crumpling. A stunted apple. 

 Cullers. The same as hollibubber (Delabole). 

 CuSTis. A smart blow on tlie open hand, a common school 

 punishment. 



D. 



Dafter. Daughter. 



Deaf, or Deave. Barren, empty. 



A nut without a kernel is ' deave.' 



Dew Snail. The Slug, Limax agrestis. 



Dish. " The Lord's dish." Vide Pryce. 



D6l, Toll. A tribute raised by the Lord of the sett. Tollere. 



Dowse. To throw on the ground. 



Draxel. Threshold. 



Dredge-corn. A mixed crop of barley, oats, and wheat. 



Dringed-up. Crowded. 



Drumble-drane. The humble bee. 



DuMBLE-DORY. The cockchafer. 



E. 



Ear-bussums. The tonsils. 



Easy. Idiotic. 



Ellegk. a species of Gurnard, Trigla cuculus. 



Carew, in his enumeration of the fishes of Cornwall, mentions 

 the "lUek." 



Eval. a dung-fork. 



R ^ 



FiTCHETT. A polecat. 



Flikkets. Flashes or sudden and rapid changes of colour. 



FoRTHY. Officious, forward. 



Frape. To bind. 



G. 



Go-A-GooDiNG. On the day before Christmas-day poor women go 

 round to their richer neighbours asking alms; this they 

 call " going a gooding." 



Goal. Slow, heavy, aching pain. 



GooG or GuG. A sea-side cavern. N.E. Cornwall. 



Gore. A gore of blood (?). 



Green-sauce. The herb Rumex acetosa, 



Gulge. To drink gluttonously. 



