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Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 



Plough, Add : — S.W. 



Plurals. Add : In S. Wilts houm is still used as the pi. of hour. 



" She weren't ill but two hourn." 



*Plum. Soft and yielding, as India-rubber, (ffist. of Chipp.) N.W. 



Plutch. A scab or blotch. S.W. 



Pog. (1) Add .—To punch with the fist. S.W. (Deverill.) 



(2) Add .—To plant potatoes. S.W. (DeveriU.) 



Pond-beater, Pond-rammer. A kind of beetle with the handle set 

 slanting, used in puddling ponds. S.W. (Shrewton.) 



* Popinjay. Picus viridis, Grreen Woodpecker. (Birds of Marlborough.) 



Povey. (1) An Owl. N.W. (Glouc. bord.) 



(2) Plovers or "pluvyers" are occasionally termed PoveyS. N.W. 



(Clyffe Pypard.) 



Powning. The gable of a house. Cp. Pwine-end. 



" The barge end of the pounynge of hys house."— -Castle Combe MS. 

 Court Books, 12 Eliz. 

 " To mend his poyninge end." — Ibid, 7 Eliz. 



Privet. Add .— n. & s.w. 



Pronged. Add .—S.W. (Deverill.) 



Proper. Add .—s.w. 



*Puckf0USt. Lycoperdon Bovista, L., Puff-ball. N.W. (Glouc. bord.) 



"^Puff-ball. Some kind of game. ? obsolete. 



" John Brewer ... for playinge at Puf bale."— -Castle Combe MS. 

 Court Boohs, 10 Eliz. 

 *Pug. Add:— (4) To punch. Cp. Pog. N.W. (Potterne.) 



Purdle. Add : — Verb transitive in Deverill. 



*Puwat. " All of a puvvat," all one mass of blossom. S.W. (Tisbury.) 



Quean. Add: — At Deverill also this term is used respectfully, and may 

 perhaps, be said to mark the position of the woman as " one in authority " in 

 the household. 



Quest. Add : — (2) v. To give tongue, as a dog when on a scent. N. & S.W. 

 Quiff. Add : — Both " quiff " and " to work a quiff " are in use in S. Wilts. 

 Quilt. Add .— *Quilp at Chippenham. (Hist, of Chipp.) 



Quiset about. Add .—s.w. 



Quodlins. The Codlin Apple. 



