CORNISH ROCK-NAMES, &c., AND IRISH WORDS. 139 
Squat. A bunch in a lode. Irish scarth, finest of anything; or scoth, 
essence of anything. ° 
Stem; Stemuyn. A day’s work. Seems to bea compound word from Sdadh, 
work; and am, time. 
Strix; Srreeck. To let a man down a shaft by a windlass. A word often 
used in Ireland is stric. If two men are carrying a handbarrow, and 
one becomes weary, he will say stric, that is, ‘“‘ put it down” or ‘let it 
down.” Strioc, ‘let it down,” is the imperative of striocaim, “I fall.” 
Taxte; Tackue. Irish ¢acla ; that part of a boat’s gear which either elevates 
or lets down; running gear. 
Trem. Irish taom, to pump out. 
Tin. Perhaps from éain, glittering. 
Toas. To clean and dress the wet tin. According to Pryce the word origi- 
nally signified paste ; it therefore is equivalent to the Irish word taos, 
dough. 
Tout; Toutur. In Ireland, boundaries in many places are marked by holes 
bored in the ground; the person who makes the holes being called 
Tollaire, or Tolloir. Toll means to bore, while poll, equal to tholl, isa 
hole. 
Tomats. Tom is a bunch, applied to corn, grass, or trees, when growing 
densely. TYomavil would express many of these together. 
Troi. A feast. May have a connection with ¢ruail or trail, a kneading 
trough, as the miners could not feast or make merry until after the food 
was prepared. 
Tor; Tur-worz. By thelump. Apparently similar to toid, whole or entire, 
i.é., in the lump; the miners bargaining to take out the whole of the 
ore at one price. 
Tye. Similar to tiugh, thick. 
Vooea. Apparently similar to fag, a hollow, or rather matter elevated to 
form a hollow, such as the hollows between waves of the sea or the 
_ hollows in a cloud of smoke. Pryce gives a similar meaning for the 
Cornish word. 
