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Rail . Add .•— S.W. (Deverill.) 

 Raiiny. Add .— Raimsy at Deverill. 



Rake. n. This word, heard at Salisbury, would appear to mean an irregularly 



built row of houses. " There'll be a rake o' houses run up along there." 

 *Rammel-milk. New milk. S.W. (Deverill.) 



Rams-claWS. Ranunculus repens, L., Creeping Buttercup. S.W. (Deverill, 



Shrewton, etc.) 



Rappers- Flowers of Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, L. See Wrappers. 



Rate. " After the rate," properly, well. " I likes a thing done a bit aa'ter the 

 rate." N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 



Rave. (2) v. To fasten a hurdle to its " shore " with a " rave," or loop of 

 twisted hazel, rope, or wire. S.W. (Shrewton, Heytesbury, etc.) 



Rawney . Add .—Bony. (Hist, of Chipp.J N.W. 



Red Linnet. Linota cannabina, Common Linnet. 



Red tail. J D hoe?iicura ruticilla, Redstart. 



Reed Sparrow. (1) Emberiza schoeniclus, Black-headed Bunting. 



(2) Salicaria arundinacea, Reed Warbler. 



Revel. Add : — In some recollections of old Wiltshire life, recently published 

 in the Devizes papers, "Revel" was persistently misprinted as "Reach," a 

 " ghost-word " which might prove misleading to some future collector. 



The Revel is generally, if not invariably, held on the day of the saint to 

 whom the parish Church is dedicated, very frequently still following the old 

 style. 



There is a curious local rhyme in North Wilts, which some suppose to have 

 been intended to indicate the order of the various feasts :■— 



" Rowde, Potterne, and Marston, 

 Little Cheverell, Great Cheverell, and Caaston, 

 White Cleeve, Pepper Cleeve, 

 Cleeve and Cleeveancy, 

 Lyneham and lousy Clack, 

 Cus Mavord and Dancy." 



Others, however, consider it as a mere rustic jeu d' esprit. 

 Ring. Add .—Also S. Wilts. This noise is made to show your ownership of 

 the bees, and is considered as entitling you to enter a neighbour's garden in 

 pursuit. There is also a popular idea that the noise will make the swarm 

 settle. Op. : — 



"Tinnitusque cie, et Matris quate cymbala circum 

 Ipsa? consident medicatis sedibus."— Virgil, Georg. t iv., 64. 



