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unfamiliar with these terms and not knowing what they meant. The drill- 

 sergeant was in despair, when someone suggested that he should get them to 

 put a "straw-ham" on one leg and a " hay -bam " on the other, and then 

 give the word of command as " Straw — Hay," and they would understand 

 that fast enough ! 



*Bandore. A violoncello. N.W. (Glouc. bord.) 



*Bandy-loft. A hockey-stick, or bandy-stick. N.W. (Potterne.) 



Barley-dot. A flat cake of barley-meal, baked on the hearth. N.W. (Clyffe 



Pypard.) 



Barney, adj. Eowdy, noisy. S.W. 



Bash, Bashet. Add: — At Longbridge Deverill a raised terrace of houses, 

 now pulled down, was known as " The Bash," or " Baish." At Harnham a 

 raised foot-path is known as " The Bashet," while at Road some houses on 

 the upper side of a similar path are said to be " on the Bash." 



*Baulky. Queer. N.W. 

 " A bottle nearly full of a liquid which had a peculiar taste. The ganger 

 . . . remarked that it was rather 'baulky.' " — Devizes Gazette, 28th May, 

 1896, p. 8, col. 3. 



Bay. (3) Add : — s.w. 



*Beckhampton Grey CrOW. Corvus cornix, Hooded Crow. (Birds 



of Marlb.) 



Beeil, Bin. Since, because. " Bein' I had a bad leg, I couldn't go." "Bin 

 as the path goes athert the groun', thur baint room for s'many graves." N. 



& S.W. 



Bin as ever, if ever. N. & S. w. 



" A [the cyclist] come by I wi' a whish, an' I never heared un a comin', 

 an' I'll warn as that turned every drop o' blood in my body, made I that 

 bad, bless'ee, as I wurn't right aal day arter't. An' when a come by, I says, 

 says I, — ' Bin as ever you comes by I like that agen, I'll summons 'ee ' — 

 But thur, bless'ee, he wur a quarter o' mile on the rwoad avore ever I could 

 get it out ! " 



Beetle-headed. A " boitle-yeaded chap," a blockhead. S.W. 

 Beggars' -lice. Grass-seeds. N.W. (Glouc. bord.) 



Belly-heft. " To live at belly-heft," to live in idleness, supported by others. 



but doing no work one's self. N.W. 

 Bevel. To level a heap of earth. S.W. 

 *Bibbity-bob, To go. To dance up and down (S.) as a child on the knee, 



N. Si S.W. 



