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_Pig's-paut_. Pig's foot, a trotter.
_Pismire_. An ant.
_Plasens_. Places. "I've seen many plasens but this licks 'em all."
(See lick.)
_Posy_. A bunch of flowers, bouquet.
_Pry_. Name of a field. Pry-close (from praie, coa.r.s.e gra.s.s.)
_Puddock_. A kite or buzzard.
_Purr_. A poker. "Purr the fire," _i.e._ poke it.
_Quirking_. Nimble, active, as a monkey.
_Ramper_. The highway (probably rampart).
_Remble_, _to_. To move a thing out of the way. "Remble that chair,"
&c.
_Ratle_ or _Reightle_. To set to rights, arrange in order. "La.s.sy, ratle them things."
_Screeved_. Split up on the ice. Cattle in former frozen fen floods were thus ruptured and killed.
_Shale_, _to_. To walk awkwardly, shuffle along.
_Shan_. Shy. Of horses or cattle frightened at an object.
_s.h.i.+ft_, _to_. To move anything to another place.
_s.h.i.+v_ or _s.h.i.+ver_. A splinter of wood. "I've got a s.h.i.+v in my finger."
_Shout_! A flat-bottomed fen boat.
_Shove_, _to_. To push anything along, or out of the way.
_Shugh_! An expression of disbelief. Shugh! Nonsense! I don't believe it.
_Shut_. Rid. To get shut (_i.e._ rid) of anything not needed, or a nuisance.
_Sicker_, _to_. To soak, as water oozing through a rotten bank.
_Sidle_. To walk aside, or indirectly, towards anyone. "Sidle up to her quietly."
_Sile_, _to_. To pour. "It siles wi' rain."
_Skelp_, _to_. To empty a cart by tilting it.
_Skirth_. A fen drain.
_Slape_. Slippery, as roads after frost.
_Slappy_ or _sloppy_. Muddy and moist.
_Slither_, _to_. To slide on ice.
_Slive_, _to_. To slip or creep slowly on. "The night slives on."
_Slosh_. Aslant, as a path running slosh across a field.
_Sloven_. The stump of a tree.
_Smock-raffled_. Taken aback, puzzled.
_Smower_, _to_. To pour over. "Yon tree smowers over wi' fruit."
_Snitchy_. Bad tempered, irritable.
_Soodle_, _to_. To daudle.
_Soodly_. Idle.
_Sooth_. Soft, gentle, of whispers, winds, &c.
_Souse_, _to_. To soak in water, &c.
_Spank_. To strike with flat hand. "Spank the tiresome bairn."
_Splats_. Leggings or gaiters.
_Spry_. Lively, full of spirit.
_Squarls_. Quarrels.
_Stang_. A pole. Only used in eel-stang, a long pole with iron p.r.o.ngs at the end, thrust into the mud to catch eels; and in "riding the stang,"
in the old custom of "rantanning," to serenade with beaten tins and kettles the wife-beater, when a figure was carried disguised as the offender, sitting astride of a long pole.
_Stilted_. Daubed with dirt (stockings, &c.)
_Struttle_. A runnel, small stream between stepping stones.
_Suthering_. Sighing, as the wind in the trees.
_Swads_. Bean pods.
_Swail_. Shade. "Left in the swail," away from the sun.
_Swingle_. A flail.
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