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Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 



Rip, " At rip," engaged in reaping. S.W. 

 Ronk. (1) and (2) Add:— S.W. 



Rowett. Rough coarse grass. N - & S - W - 



RowleSS-tlling. Add .— " In Anglo-Saxon nomenclature the epithet 22^e 

 (or iMA), the equivalent to our modern word rough, was applied to such 

 places as were rugged, wild, or uncultivated— thus we meet in the Charters 

 with Buan-leah, or Ruge-leah, which is represented by the Wiltshire 

 " Row-ley."— Wilts Arch. Mag., xvi., 248-9. • 



In documents of the middle of last century, relating to Deverill, such as 

 leases of 1750—90, we frequently find such phrases as "a Eough-lease 

 tenement " and "roughless" occurring. 



Rudder, (l) and (2) Add .— s.w. 



Ruddle. Red ochre. N. & S.W. 



Rumpy. The game of hockey or bandy. S.W. (Salisbury.) 



Salisbury whites. A kind of long-cloth. Obsolete" 

 "Salisbury has . . . Long Cloths for the Turkey trade, called 

 Salisbury Whites."— Defoe, Journey thro Great Britain, I., 324. 



" As good Whites as any are woven in this county."— Fuller's Worthies 

 (Wilts), II., 435. 



*Scabs. Sisymbrium Alliaria, Scop., Garlick Mustard. KW. (Melksham.) 



# Scarigen. The same as Shrigging, q.v. 



*ScarybaeUS. At Yatton Iveynell the Figwort, Scrophularia , is so called 

 by the old women. It is pounded up with lard, and made into eye-lotion. 

 Our informant considers that the name is from some fanciful resemblance 

 between the flower and the Scarabaeus beetle. But it is more probably a 

 variant of Squarrib (Square-rib, from the shape of the stem), which is 

 the name in use among old people round Chippenham. N.W. 



Scatling- S, A whipping. Op. Scotland s.w. 



Scaut. Add : — (3) To lean against a wall, etc. " Put un up scautin' and 

 then a wun't vail down." N.W. (Clvffe Pypard.) 



ScOOt. To lean or slope away, or inwards. Op. Cooted and Scaut. 

 " Perhaps it would be better if the sides scooted a little." S.W. 



Scotlail ? . "She just about give un a scotlan' [a good blowing up] when he 

 come home." Op. Settlings. S.W. (Shrewton.) 



Scraggle. « A scraggling frost," a very slight one. Op. "scrawling frost" 

 in Glouc. KW. (ClyfEe Pypard.) 



Screamer. Cypselus apus, the Swift. 



