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Screech devil. Cypselus a pus, the Swift. 

 Screech martin. Cypselus apus, the Swift. 

 Screech owl. Strix flammed, White Owl. 



Scrig. The scrag-end of a neck of mutton. N.W. 



Scriggle. To take the last apples. N & S.W. 



Scrigs. Small fruit left after the gathering of the crops. — Notes and Queries, 

 6th Aug.. 1881. 



Scroff. Rubbishy underwood to be cleared away. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 

 ScrOW. (1) Add .—S.W. (Deverill.) 



Scrubber. A chain-harrow. S.W. 



'• Take them [the clods] . . . when just so mellow with the moisture 

 they have imbibed as to be soft and friable, and just so dry as not to stick, 

 and a chain-harrow, or ' scrubber,' will do more to reduce them than any 

 amount of clod-crushing." — Marlborough Times, 14th March, 1891. 



Scullery-maid. The Water- Wagtail. N.W. 



S CUrling wheat. Very inferior grain, given to the poultry. See 



Tailings. S.W. (Salisbury.) 



Scythe. Add .—At Deverill the blade is the Zive, the pole is the 



Zl Ve-Sliead, and the projecting handles thereon are the NogS. S.W. 

 Seg-Cart. Add : — This was a kind of two-wheeled barrow, with an arched 



rod across it, from which a tub was suspended. 



Seg-Critch. The vessel or tub on a seg-cart. S.W. 

 Setting-pin. A gardener's dibble. N. & S.W. 



Sewent. Add : — A held where the whole crop was evenly grown would be 

 said to be " suant ." 



[tldd . (3) Sly. S.W. (Deverill, occasionally.) 



Shame-faced maiden. Add: — Ornifhoff alum umbellatum, L., Star of 

 Bethlehem. SW - (Shrewton.) 



*Shandy-f00. A Cheverell person said of a fete in a neighbouring parish 

 that there was " so much hollerin' an shoutin' and shandy-fooin' at thic 

 Veast, as you endden hear nothen ! " The Rev. A. C. Smith suggests that 

 there may he some connection with chants desfous. 



Sheening. Add .— s.w. 



Shepherds, Folk-lore relating to. In Wilis it was formerly usual to place 

 a lock of wool in a shepherd's coffin, to enable him on the Judgmenl Hay. 



