“The” West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of Somerset and East Devon, Volume 13; Volume 17Trübner, 1886 - 876 pages |
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Page 28
... wood is well known , and always called arbale by the country joiners . ARBOR [ aa'rbur ] , n . The shaft , spindle , or axle of a wheel or pulley . The word is not applied to a " pin " on which a pulley or wheel runs loosely , but an ...
... wood is well known , and always called arbale by the country joiners . ARBOR [ aa'rbur ] , n . The shaft , spindle , or axle of a wheel or pulley . The word is not applied to a " pin " on which a pulley or wheel runs loosely , but an ...
Page 32
... wood is probably as old as Saxon times . The faggot is always specially made with a number of the ordinary halse binds , or hazel withes , and in many cases , if large , it is bound with chains as well , to prevent its falling to pieces ...
... wood is probably as old as Saxon times . The faggot is always specially made with a number of the ordinary halse binds , or hazel withes , and in many cases , if large , it is bound with chains as well , to prevent its falling to pieces ...
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... wood , it not unfrequently happens that the cunning animal has merely soiled when he entered the stream , and then backed it on his foil , and laid fast in the covert . - Collyns , Chase of the Wild Red Deer , p . 137 . BACK ALONG [ baa ...
... wood , it not unfrequently happens that the cunning animal has merely soiled when he entered the stream , and then backed it on his foil , and laid fast in the covert . - Collyns , Chase of the Wild Red Deer , p . 137 . BACK ALONG [ baa ...
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... wooden partition called the spirting - board , on either side , to keep the corn upon the floor . It is made of elm ... wood . BARNY [ baar'nee ] , sb . An altercation , dispute , quarrel . Of some quarrelsome neighbours , a man said ...
... wooden partition called the spirting - board , on either side , to keep the corn upon the floor . It is made of elm ... wood . BARNY [ baar'nee ] , sb . An altercation , dispute , quarrel . Of some quarrelsome neighbours , a man said ...
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... wooden mallet bound with two iron rings , used for cleaving wood . In this sense we generally hear it coupled with the wedges . Where be the battle n wadges ? See WEDGES . Pronounced also , but not so commonly , beetl , bút · l , buy'tl ...
... wooden mallet bound with two iron rings , used for cleaving wood . In this sense we generally hear it coupled with the wedges . Where be the battle n wadges ? See WEDGES . Pronounced also , but not so commonly , beetl , bút · l , buy'tl ...
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