A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire Part 22

Tawl-down _v._ to strike or smooth down a cat's back

Teak _s._ a whitlow

Teap _s._ a point, peak

Teart _adj._ sharp, sour, painful

Ted _v._ to turn hay or flax to dry. Ted-pole the pole used for the purpose

Teg _s._ a last year's lamb not sheared

Teem _v._ to pour out

Terrible _adv._ intensitive, ex. Terrible good

Thic, Thicky, Thicky-there, Thick.u.my, Thick.u.my-there _p.r.o.n._ that (Chaucer _thilk_)

Thiller _s._ the shaft horse

Thill-harness opposed to trace harness

Tho _adv._ then, ex. I couldn't go tho, but I went afterwards

Thong _v._ to stretch out into viscous threads or filaments

Thongy _adj._ viscid, ropy

Thornen _adj._ made of thorns

Thurt _v._ to thwart, to plough crossways

Thurt-handled _adj._ thwart-handled

Thurt-saw _s._ a thwart-saw, a cross-cut saw

Tilty _adj._ irritable, _i.e._, easily tilt or lifted up

Timmern _adj._ wooden

Timmersom _adj._ timorous

Tine _v._ to light, ex. Tine the candle (root of tinder) _v._ a tooth as of rake or spear (A S _tine_)

Tine-in _v._ to shut, to enclose. Tinings _s._ enclosures (A S _tynan_)

Tip-and-tail heels over head

t.i.tty-todger _s._ a wren

To appended to adverbs, as where-to, to-home, to-year, to-week, as to-day

Toak _v._ to soak

Toggers _s._ the handle-pieces of the scythe

Toke _v._ to glean apples

Toll _v._ to decoy, entice, ex. A bit o' cheese to toll down the bread wi'

Toll-bird _s._ a decoy bird

Tongue, or Tonguey _v._ to talk immoderately

Tossity _adj._ drunken ('tossicated)

Tranter _s._ a carrier. Coal-tranter a beggar

Trapes _s.v._ a slattern, to walk in the dirt

Trendle _s._ a brewer's cooler of an oval form

Trig _v._ to prop up _adj._ sound, firm, well in health, neat, tidy

Trig-to _v._ to open, set open, as a door

Trill _v._ to twirl

Trop intj. used by riders to excite a dull horse

Tuck _v._ to touch

Tucker _s._ a fuller, also Tucking-mill

Tun _s._ upper part of the chimney

Tunnegar _s._ a wooden funnel

Tup _s._ a ram

Turmets, Turmits _s._ turnips

Turve _s._ turf

Tut _s._ a ha.s.sock

Tutty _s._ flower. Tutty-more flower-root

Tut-work, Tuck-work _s._ piece-work