A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire Part 19

Sense _v._ to understand

Seven-sleeper _s._ dormouse

Shab _s._ itch or mange in brutes _adj._ Shabby

Shaff-Tuesday _s._ Shrove-Tuesday

Shalder _s._ rush, sedge growing in ditches

Sham _s._ a horse-hoe

Share, Sheare _s._ the quant.i.ty of gra.s.s cut at one harvest, a crop

Sharps _s._ shafts of a cart

Shaul _v._ to sh.e.l.l, to shed the first teeth

Shaw _v._ to scold sharply

Sheen _adj._ bright, shining

Sheer _s._ a sheath, ex. Scissis-sheer

Shelving-stone _s._ a blue tile or slate for covering the roofs of houses

Shod _part. of v. to shed_ ex. No use crying for shod milk

Showl _s._ for shovel

Shrig _v.a._ to shroud or trim a tree

Shrowd, Shride _s._ loppings of trees

Shuckning _adj._ shuffling

Shut _v._ to weld iron

Shuttles, s.h.i.ttles _s._ floodgates

Sife, Sithe _v._ and _s._ to sigh

Sig _s._ urine (Dutch _v. zeycken_)

Silch, Sulch _v._ to soil, daub

Silker _s._ a court card

'Sim t' I it seems to me

Simlin _s._ a kind of fine cake intended for toasts

Sin, Sine _conj._ since, because

Sinegar _s._ the plant stocks

Singlegus _s._ the orchis

Skag _s._ a rent, tear, wound

Skenter, Skinter _adj._ relaxed, as applied to oxen

Skiff-handed _adj._ awkward

Skiffle _s._ as to make a skiffle, to make a mess of any business

Skiffling _s._ the act of whittling a stick

Skilly _s._ oatmeal porridge

Skimps _s._ the scales and refuse of flax

Skimmerton-riding _s._ the effigy of a man or woman unfaithful to marriage vows carried about on a pole accompanied by rough music from cows'-horns and frying-pans. Formerly it consisted of two persons riding on a horse back to back, with _ladles_ and _marrow-bones_ in hand, and was intended to ridicule a hen-pecked husband

Skir _v._ skim, mow lightly, as thistles

Skir-devil _s._ a black martin, swift

Skirrings _s._ hay made in pasture lands from the long gra.s.s left by the cattle

Skitty _s._ a water-rail

Skitty-vamps _s._ laced half boots

Skred, Skride _v._ to stride

Slat, Slate _v._ to split, crack, crumble

Slate _s._ a sheep-run. Slated _adj._ accustomed to, contented

Slerib _s._ a spare rib of pork

Sley for "as lief," ex. I would sley do it as not

Sliden, Slidder, Slither _v._ to slide

Sliver _s._ a thin slice

Slock _v._ to encourage the servants of other people to pilfer