240 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 



difficulty of finding it ; but the name may have come from a time when the 

 wares offered in August would include preparations for winter evenings." — 

 Wilts Notes and Queries, No. 5, p. 23. 



*Candle-tining. Evening. See Tine, (1) N.W. (Glouc. bord.) 



Candlemas bells. Galanthus nivalis, L., Snowdrop. N.W. (Glouc. bord.) 



Casulty. (1) Add .—Also applied to timber of doubtful soundness. 



Cank. (1) Add .—" You'll cank me to death," talk me to death, surfeit me 

 with gossip. & s.w. 



(3) To gossip. " She's alius a canking wi' thuck thur gel next door." N.W. 



Catch. (2) Add .—Of ground, to get hard. N. & S. W. 



" An inexperienced man neglects to roll down his furrows, and finds after 

 a few days of dry and sunny weather that the clods are ' caught,' and cannot 

 be reduced until rain again falls."— Marlborough Times, 14th March, 

 1891. N . & S. W. 



*Cattern-tide. The Feast of St. Katherine, when the well-known Cattern 

 Cakes were made.— Wilts Notes and Queries, No. 1, p. 8. 



Charm. Add .—Sometimes Churm is used. 



" The birds . . . wur ael in a churm." — Ashen Faggot. 

 Chatter- Water. Tea. (Wilts Arch. Mag., xxx., 125.^ N. & S.W. 



Cheeper. Anthus pratensis, Meadow Pipit. (Birds of Marlborough.) N.W. 

 Chicken -COrn. Very poor corn, only fit for feeding fowls. " The second 



share has only yielded chicken-corn." — Wilts County Mirror, 27th Sept., 



1895, p. 2. 



Chimp. (2) Add —N.W. (Chippenham.) 



Chism, Add .— *(2) To strip potatoes of their sprouts. (Hist, of Chipp.) 



Chit- Jack. The same as Shitsack. 



Chitterlings. Add : — At Deverill the intestines of calves are known as 



Calves' Chadlens. 



Choke -SparrOW. Bearded wheat, which it is said birds find a difficulty in 

 swallowing. N. & S.W. 



Christmas. Holly, when used for Christmas decorations. "Why, you 

 haven't a bit o' Christmas about the house yet." N. & S.W. 



*CllUek-board. See quotation — 



" Labourers playing at " chuck-board," which consists in casting a small 

 square piece of lead on to certain marked divisions of a shallow tray -like box 

 placed on the trestle table." — Jefferies, Great Estate, ch. 4, pp. 67-8. 



Chump-head. A stupid person, a dullard. , S.W. 



