Leicestershire Agricultural Terms
Extract from A General View of the Agriculture of Leicester &
Rutland
by
William Pitt 1809
As an occasional visitor has little opportunity of picking up these, not having sufficient colloquial intercourse with the lower classes, by whom they are used, I have collected the most remarkable of those noticed by Mr. Marshall, who resided in this neighbourhood two years, buy have altered some of the definitions :-
| Acre Aigles Batch Batch Bag Batten or Bolting Beggars Needle To Belt or Burl Beltings or Burlings Boar Thistle Brush Crop Butty Byslings or Beastings Chadlock or kedlock Camp or hogg Caps or hackler's Chapmanry Clam or clammed Cleries Cockheads Crow-flower Corned Cullings Daglocks Dee hettle Dog Fennel Douk Eavins Elder Feeders Fegg To fettle Fin Finch backed Fitchet Galls Garner Gaun Gearing Gorse Gurgeons Gutter Heart spurn Hengorse Hillocks Hooders Hubbs To kibble Kids Lag Lamb hogs Lap love Lay for cattle Lays Muck Nag Pad Passer Pin fallow Pingle Piles Poothery Queest Quart of butter Raun-picked Raw weather Roarer Rood Ruck Sarver Score Seedness Shear hog Sludge Sough or suff Spinney Stail Stalled To stock up Stodged Strike Stump Tankard turnip To thack Theave Thoan Thrave Twitch or squitch Wall spring Wastrell Willow weed Welly |
A long measure of 4 roods or 32 yards icicles the corn sent to the mill for family use the bag containing the above a truss of straw a weed, shepherds needle to shear the buttocks of a sheep wool so shorn spear thistle, cardous lanceolatus crop sown on a stubble partner in a small concern a cows first milk after calving wild mustard, radish or rape a hoard of potatoes hood of sheaves or corn shocks a small return on receiving money for beasts or corn starved by hunger draft iron of a plough a weed, knapweed, also plaintain heads crow-foot, renunculus fed with grain refuse, out-casts of a stock beltings or burlings of wool a weed, nettle hemp, or lamicoms a weed, corn, camomile damp eaves of thatched buildings the udder of a cow fatting cattle rough dead grass to adjust, or to put in order a plant, onions, rest harrow white backed or streaked cattle a pole cat moist springy places on land a bin in a granary, or mill a gallon measure, also a small pail or tub the harness of a horse, or ladder, and side rails of a carriage in harvest furze or whin, ulex Europœus pollard, or a sort of bran a small ditch or drain tap root ononis spinosa, thorny rest harrow, to hike, to strike, or gore with a horn mole-hills, ant-hills covering sheaves, of wheat shocks naves or stocks of wheels to grind corn perfectly faggots a shake in a timber yearling sheep, before shearing corn bind weed, convolvulus hired pasture grass or pasture land compost of dung and straw a saddle horse a traced path a nailpasser, a gimblet winter fallow a small croft awns of barley close, cloudy, sultry weather the wood pigeon three pounds dead-branched tree, stag-headed wet and cold weather a restless cow, also a rupture winded horse a customary measure of 8 yards a heap a corn scuttle twenty in number seed time a wether or ram, yearling sheep after shearing mire a covered drain a clump, or small coppice handle, as fork stail, mop stail a carriage set fast in a slough to grub up filled to the stretch a measure once stricken originally a post the long rooted turnip to thatch a yearling ewe after shearing damp, not thoroughly dry 24 sheaves or boltings coach grass a spring breaking through the surface outcast polygonum pezsicaria almost |
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