WORDS IN t7SE IN WEST COBNWALL. 61 



Slowceipple. The Blindworm. Mr. Stackhouse (No. II) gives the 



word as " Long -cripple." 

 Stuam. "The cart carue stram against the wall." "He ran strain 



up against me." 

 Steamming (Secondary sense of the preceding). " He told me a 



stramming great lie ! " 

 Vean. Little. " Cheel vean," a term of endearment=little child. 

 ViDNANS. Sand Eels. 

 Upping- STOCK, (Hepping-stock, Polwhele). Stone-steps attached to 



an outhouse, to enable the goodwife to mount behind her 



husband in the days when pillions were used. 



The late Mr. Le Grice, seeing a cleigyman riding, with his 

 wife dressed in black on the pillion, quoted the well-known line in 

 Horace : — 



" Post equitem sedet atra cura." 



We have received the following additions from another correspondent. 



Bakester. a Baker. 



BiTLCHED. Tossed or gored by a bullock. 



Cab. To handle overmuch, to soil with handling. 



Cabby. Sticky. 



Carney. To wheedle or coax. 



Chantering. Mumbling or humming to one's self. 



CiAiN-oFF. Excellent, perfect. 



Ceouging. Shuffling, awkward. " Crouging along." 



Dew-snail. A slug. 



DuFE. To strike. 



Eilth. EuU. "He had his filth of broth." 



Foathy. Forward, presumptuous. 



Gammut. Fun, frolic. 



Gliddee. Any kind of smooth enamel. 



GxTLGE. To drink greedily. 



Glaws. Dried horse or cow-dung. 



"We cheldurn was sent to pick glaws," for fuel. 



