242 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 



Cooted. Add:— See Scoot. 



*Cop-loaf, a square box of paste, with an apple in the middle, notched 

 round the edges, and a cock's head made of paste on the top, with two 

 currants for eyes. Only seen at Christmas. — Wilts Notes and Queries, 

 No. 1, p. 9. 



Copse-willow. A species of willow, often growing in copses. The wood is 

 used for wedges, etc., in mills. S.W. 



Coik-and-far thing". A very old game, played in country tap-rooms, but 

 now nearly extinct. A circle was drawn with chalk round the bottom of a 

 quart pot, at one end of the table. Sometimes the circle was traced with an 

 awl, for permanent use. A cork was placed in the middle of the circle, with 

 a farthing balanced on top. The players stood at the other end of the table, 

 and with penny pieces tried to knock the cork away, so that the farthing 

 should fall within the circle. The table was generally edged with hoop-iron 

 at sides and top, so as to prevent the coins from rolling off when thrown. 

 (Mr. Sloiv.) "A dapster, too, at cork-an-varden." — Wilts Rhymes, v., 16. 

 "^Counting-Out rhyme. See quotation :— 



"I can give ... a genuine Wiltshire counting-out rhyme. The 

 spelling ... is phonetic : 



" One-ry ownry ekry en, 

 Ferison, Ferison, ekry jen, 

 Egey, Pegey, Virgin Mary, 



Egey, Pegey, club." — Wilts Notes and Queries, No. 6, p. 273. 

 ^Cousin. To agree to or with. " He won't cousin to that." S.W. (Harnham.) 

 Coward. Dele * and add : — In common use at Clyffe Pypard. 



CoW-down. Acid :— Still in use about Shrewton, Orcheston, etc., by the 

 older people, who remember when cattle were sent out to graze there under 

 the care of a cow-keeper, grazing at night only in very hot weather. 

 CoW-gOWn. A kind of smock-frock. N. & S.W. 



Crabby. Snappish, ill-tempered. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard). 



CrankumS. (1) In children, ill-temper. N. & S.W. 



(2) In cattle, some kind of disease. N. & S.W. 



" He admitted it [the cow] was lame, and suffered from ' cranckums ' — 

 understood to be an injury to a joint." — Devizes Gazette, 9th Dec, 1897. 

 ■*Cree. A cry of boys to cease play. (Hist of Chipp.) N.W. 

 CrOSS. To " put a cross " on a bill, to receipt it. S.W. 

 Crutch. (1) A cooking pot. See CHtch. S.W. (Shrewton). 



(2) An earthen jar for honey, etc. N. & S.W. 



