A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire Part 5

Clothen _adj._ made of cloth

Clotting, Clatting _s._ fishing for eels with a knot or clot of worms, which is also called reballing

Clout _s._ and _v._ a blow in the face or head, to beat about the head

Clumber _s._ a clump, or large piece

Cly, Cliver, Clider, or Clidden _s._ goose-gra.s.s

Coathe, or Coe _v.a._ to bane, applied to sheep, rabbits, and hares

c.o.c.k-and-mwile _s._ a jail

c.o.c.k-lawt, c.o.c.k-lart _s._ a garret or c.o.c.k-loft

c.o.c.k-squailing _s._ an old Shrove Tuesday sport--(in Somerset, Shaff Tuesday), flinging sticks at a c.o.c.k tied by the leg, one penny per throw, whoever kills him takes him away

Cob-wall _s._ made of mud and straw, mud-and-stud, or wattle-and-dab

College _s._ an a.s.semblage of small tenements, having a common entrance from the street, and only one

Colley blackbird; Water-colley water-ouzel; Mountain-colley ring-ouzel

Colt a person entering on a new employment; Colting, Colt-ale a fine on entering; footing; also, a thrashing

Comb-broach _s._ tooth of a wool-combe, a spit, knitting-needle (Fr.

_broche_)

Commandement _s._ (Four syllables as in Chaucer and Wiclif), command

Conk, or Skonk _s._ a collection of people (Lat. _concio_)

Connifle _v._ to embezzle, to sponge

Cop-bone _s._ knee-pan, patella

Count _v._ to think, to esteem

Couples, Cooples _s._ an ewe with her lambs; Double-couples _s._ an ewe with twins

Coy _v._ to decoy; Cway Pool _s._ a decoy

Cowerd Milk _s._ milk not skimmed

Cow-babby _s._ a great childish fellow

Crab-lantern _s._ a cross froward child

c.r.a.p a bunch or cl.u.s.ter (Fr. _grappe_)

c.r.a.p, c.r.a.ppy _v._ to snap, to crack

Craze _v.a._ to crack

Crease _s._ crest of a horse's neck, a crestaline of a roof

Creem _s._ and _v._ a cold shivering, to shiver; to creemy _adj._ subject to shivers

Creem _v._ to crush or squeeze severely the limbs of a person

Crewel _s._ a cowslip

Creeze _adj._ squeamish, dainty

Crip _v._ to clip--as the hair

Cripner, Kr'pner _s._ crupper strap

Crips, or Curps _adj._ crisp

Criss-cross-lain the alphabet, because in the Horn-book it was preceded by a X (Fr. _croissette_)

Crope _pret. of creep_ crept, ex. A craup'd in

Cross-axe _s._ an axe with two broad and sharp ends, one cutting breadth-wise, the other length-wise, called also grub-axe and twibill

Crowdy, Crowdy-kit (Celtic _crwth_) _s._ small fiddle; to crowd _v._ to grate as the two ends of a broken bone, to make a flat creaking; Crowder _s._ a fiddler (W. _crwthwr_)

Crown _v._ Crowner's quest _s._ Coroner's Inquest. To be crowned, to have an inquest held over a dead body by the direction of the coroner

Crub, Croost _s._ a crust of bread

Cruel _adv._ intensive, as cruel-kind, very kind

Cry _s._ to challenge, bar, or object to

Cubby-hole _s._ a snug comfortable situation for a child, such as between a person's knees when sitting before the fire

Cuckold _s._ the plant Burdock; cuckold-b.u.t.tons, the burs, (A S _coccel_, darnel, tares)

Cue _s._ the shoe on an ox's hoof, or tip on a man's boot

Curdle _v.a._ to curl, also, _v.n._; Curdles _s._ curls

Cut _s._ a door hatch

Curse _s._ cress