A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire Part 21

Stagnated _adj._ astonished

Stang _s._ a long pole

Stap _v._ for to stop

Stare-basin, Glow-basin _s._ glow-worm

Stean _v._ to stone a road. Steaned _part. s._ a large stone pitcher (Dutch _steen_)

"Upon an huge great earthpot stean he stood"

(Spenser, Faery Queene)

Steanin _s._ a stone-pitched ford

Steeve _v._ to dry, to stiffen (Dutch _styven_)

Stickle _s._ shallow rapids in a stream. Steep _adj._ steep as a hill

St.i.tch _s._ a shock of corn, ten sheaves

Stive _v._ to keep close and warm

Stiver _s._ a bristling of the hair

Stocky _adj._ short, stumpy

Stodge _s._ thick slimy mud _adj._ miry; ex. "Pendummer, where the Devil was stodged in the midst of zummer"

Stodged _adj._ stuffed with eating

Stool _s._ the stock of a tree cut for underwood

Stoor, Storr _v._ to stir, move actively (Dutch _stooren_)

Stomachy _adj._ proud, haughty

Stout _s._ a gnat-fly

Strablet _s._ a long, narrow strip

Strame _s._ a streak, mark, trace _v._ to trace (Dutch _stram_)

Straw-mote _s._ a bit of straw

Strickle _adj._ steep as the roof of a house

Strod _s._ a leathern buskin worn by peasants

Strout _v._ to strut, stand out stiff

"Crowk was his hair, and as gold it shon And strouted as a fan large and brode"

(Chaucer, Miller's Tale)

Stub-shot _s._ the portion of the trunk of a tree which remains when the tree is not sawn through

Stun-pole _s._ a stupid fellow

Stwon _s._ stone Stwonen _adj._

Suant _adj._ even, regular, applied to rows of beans or corn; grave as applied to the countenance (Fr. _suivant_)

Sull _s._ plough-share (A S _sul_)

Suma _s._ a small cup made of blue and white stoneware

Surge _v._ and _s._ to bear heavily on, impetuous force

Swallow-pears _s._ service-pears, sorb-apples

Swather, or Swother _v._ to faint (A S _sweothrian_)

Sweem _v._ to swoon. Sweemy, Sweemish _adj._ faint (Dutch _swiim_)

Sweet-harty _v._ to court. Sweet-harting _s._ courts.h.i.+p

Swile _s._ soil, also Swoil-heap

Swill, Swell, Zwell _v._ to swallow

Tack _s._ a shelf, bacon-rack. Clavy-tack chimney-piece

Taffety _adj._ nice in eating

Tallet _s._ the s.p.a.ce next the roof in out-houses (Welsh _tavlod_)

Tame _v._ to cut, to have the first cut (Fr. _entamer_)

Tanbase _s._ unruly behaviour

Tan-day _s._ the second day of a fair

Tang _s._ to tie; that part of a knife which pa.s.ses into the haft

Tave _v._ to throw the hands about wildly

Tavering _adj._ restless in illness