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The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies The Dialect of Cornwall In Conjunction with Brian Stevens Recorder of Dialect |
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The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies The Dialect of Cornwall In Conjunction with Brian Stevens Recorder of Dialect |
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CAB AWAY |
Verb: to faint, give up the ghost. |
57, |
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N C |
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43. 52, 57, |
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1940 |
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CACK HANDED |
Awkward / Left handed |
57, |
General |
N C |
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Fishing |
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20, |
General |
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54 |
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Caage-of-bones / caauge |
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W C |
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54, 56 |
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N.C. |
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54 |
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CALL-'OME |
Remember |
20 |
General |
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WC |
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54 |
Gardening |
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CANKER |
type of crab |
43 |
Fishing |
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WC, |
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54 |
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54 |
General |
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Canvas
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Linoleum, especially cheap linoleum |
43 |
Houshold |
WC |
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54 |
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Gardening |
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CASTE |
Verb; to plough furrows away from each other |
57 |
Farming |
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54 |
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52, |
General |
NC, |
1940 |
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CAUDY |
of sheep infested with liver flike |
52 |
Farming |
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NC, |
1940 |
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54 |
General |
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20, 43 |
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WC |
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54 |
General |
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54 |
General |
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CAVINS |
Useless grain from thresher. |
57 |
Farming |
N C, |
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54 |
Farming |
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CAWEDID |
Liver riddled with fluke worm. |
57 |
Farming |
N C |
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Farming |
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20, 43, 57 |
General |
WC, N C |
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54 |
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54 |
Gardening / Farming |
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CHAFF |
Straw chopped for horse feed. |
57 |
Farming |
N C |
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54 |
Household |
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General |
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Fishing |
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Farming |
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CHAP |
Young farmworker living in. |
57 |
Farming |
N C |
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CHARLIE |
Chamber Pott |
20 |
Household |
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WC |
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54 |
General |
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54 |
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CLUME-BUZZA |
an earthen pan |
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Household |
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1790 |
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54 |
Household |
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54 |
Mining |
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54 |
General |
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54 |
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54 |
Clothing |
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43, 54, 56 |
Common |
WC, N.C. |
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20 |
General |
WC |
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54 |
Health |
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CHEEN |
Sprout, potatoes, to cheen out when they sprout. We cheen them when we break off the sprouts. |
52 |
Farming / Gardening |
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NC, |
1940 |
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20, 43 |
General |
WC |
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54 |
Household |
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54 |
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54 |
Faming |
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43 |
Household |
WC |
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CHEST WAGON |
a wagon fitted with raised sides and usually limited lock. |
52 |
Farming |
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NC |
1940 |
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General |
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Personal |
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43 |
Gardening |
WC |
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CHIBBLES |
Green tops from Spring onions. |
57 |
Household |
N C |
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54 |
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54 |
Farming |
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CHIDS |
Spouts on potatoes |
57 |
Farming |
N C |
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54 |
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54 |
Household |
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54 |
Health |
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54 |
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54 |
Household |
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54 |
Personal |
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54 |
Personal |
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CHITLINS |
Stones from castrated lambs/pigs fry. |
57 |
Farming/Household |
N C |
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54 |
Farming |
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CHIPPING AND CHAPPING |
talking in an affected, refrained way. |
52 |
General |
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NC |
1940 |
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54 |
Household |
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54 |
General |
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CHOCKS |
slits on fingers. |
43 |
General |
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WC |
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54 |
Health |
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57 |
Farming |
N C |
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54 |
General |
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20 |
General |
WC |
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20 |
General |
WC |
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52, 54 |
General |
NC, |
1940 |
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43 |
Health |
WC |
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54 |
General |
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CHUCKED OR STARVED |
Famished |
20 |
Generla |
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WC |
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CHUCKIN |
Very thirsty |
57 |
General |
N C |
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20, 43 |
Pensonal |
WC |
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54 |
General |
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CHUFF |
Sulking |
52, 57 |
General |
N C |
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54 |
Household |
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54 |
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54, 56, |
General |
N.C. |
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54 |
Household |
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20 |
General |
WC |
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Churs
-- |
chores,
household duties. |
43 |
Household |
WC |
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54 |
Farming |
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54 |
General |
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54 |
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54 |
Health |
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54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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CLAT |
Turf cut with Cornish shovel. cut to shape not a tob. |
52,57 |
Farming |
N C |
1940 |
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54 |
Personal |
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54 |
General |
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54 |
Household |
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54 |
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54 |
Household |
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54 |
Health |
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54 |
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CLIBBY |
Sticky |
57 |
General |
N C |
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CLICK |
fasten, "click the gate" |
43 |
General |
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WC |
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54 |
General |
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17 ,20, 43, 57 |
General |
MC, WC, NC |
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20, 43, 52 |
General |
WC |
1940 |
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54 |
General |
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54 |
Farming / Gardening |
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CLITS |
The toes of a cloven footed animal |
52 |
Farming |
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NC |
1940 |
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54 |
General |
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54 |
Butcher |
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43, 52, 54, 56 |
General |
N.C. |
1940 |
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CLOME-AUV'N |
Earthen Ware Oven. |
57 |
Household |
N C |
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CLOB STANKERS |
heavy boots |
43 |
General |
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WC |
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54 |
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54 |
General |
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CLONK |
Verb; to gulp down quickly |
57 |
General |
N C |
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54 |
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CLOSE HOM |
shut the door |
20 |
General |
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WC |
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54 |
General |
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20, 43, 57 |
Household |
WC, NC |
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57 |
Household |
N C |
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54 |
Personal |
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CLUCK, Clucky Hin |
52, 20 |
General |
NC, WC |
1940 |
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43, 52, 54, 54 |
General |
WC, N.C, |
1940 |
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CLUNKER: |
the uvula. The wiggly little thing that hangs down in back of the mouth. Clunca (Borlase) |
54 |
Health |
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54 |
General |
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54 |
Personal |
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52 |
General |
NC, |
1940 |
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CLYNE: |
Seabirds feast. indicating a shoal. |
54 |
Fishing |
Mevagissey, |
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CLYSTY, CLISTY: |
moist as badly made bread or a bad potatoe |
54 |
General |
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54 |
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COADY, CAWED: |
liver disease of sheep, liver-fluke. |
54 |
Farming |
Stratton. |
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COAGERS WAX |
cobblers wax |
43 |
General |
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WC |
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54 |
Cobbler |
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COARSE, COOSE: |
cold (of weather) |
54 |
Weather |
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COARSE TOWSER |
Rough hessian apron |
43 |
General |
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WC |
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WC |
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COB: or CLOB, |
adobe,
clay and straw for walls |
57 |
Building |
N C |
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Cob
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horse's mane, also boy's forelock |
54 |
General / Personal |
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COB, COBBA: |
a gull. [C.S.W. ] Also, jocularly, a simpleton |
54 |
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COBBATY CUT, COBBLEDENUT: |
"down nut, jee jaw, first blaw" A game with hazel nuts. |
54 |
Game |
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[O.C. Vol. 11 no.8, p.43.] |
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54 |
Mining |
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Mining |
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Gardening / Food |
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COBMORE, COGMORE: |
clubroot in cabbage. |
54 |
Gardening / Farming |
St. Neot |
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Game |
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COBSHAN, COPTION: |
money or savings. Caption, old legal term. |
54 |
Personal |
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54 |
Farming |
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COCK AN BAWBA, COCKEN BABA: |
toy boat. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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COCKS AND HENS: |
plantains. |
54 |
Gardening |
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COCKBOAT: |
attend the mackerel seine. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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COCKCOMBS: |
the
Montbretia plant |
54 |
Gardening |
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COCKDAYKA: |
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Fishing |
W C |
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COCKDOLLAR: |
to discharge excrement, to let fly with heels as of a donkey. |
54 |
General |
caugh dyllo, cacdyllo |
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COCKEDGE, COCK HEDGE: |
a low fence of thorn or other plant. |
54 |
Gardening |
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COCKETT |
Small load |
57 |
Farming |
N C |
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COCKLE:
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schorl or Capel. Rock derived from Killas. |
54 |
Mining |
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COCKLE
BELLS,
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cockle buttons, cockle dock: the burdock plant. From cuckold buttons? |
54 |
Gardening |
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COCKLEHEAD: |
to turn over heels in bed; part of a rhyme. |
54 |
Game |
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COCKFIGHTER: |
a game with plantain heads. |
54 |
Game |
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COCK ROBIN: |
the
red campion (Lychnis dioica) |
54 |
Gardening |
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COCK-HAW: |
a game played with hazel nuts. |
54 |
Game |
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Gardening |
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COCK-LEE BREAD. |
Early morning bread |
54 |
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Gardening |
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cocor: |
"quiver, scabbard" |
54 |
Archery |
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COCKABELLS, CONCUBBELLS, CONKERBELLS: |
icicles. |
54 |
Weather |
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COCK'S EYE: |
a
halo round the sun or moon. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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COCKATHODON: |
the Manx shearwater. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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COD:
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the bag of a net. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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General |
WC |
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Coddle |
to be busy doing nothing. |
43 |
General |
WC |
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WC, |
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CODDLY:
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messy |
54 |
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CODDLE: |
see CAUDLE. |
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Codlin' water |
waiter unfit for drinking. |
43 |
General |
WC, |
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CODNOR: |
a stew. |
54 |
Food |
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COE, COW: |
a small hut of clods or boards over a shaft to keep it dry. |
54 |
Mining |
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COFFER: |
small water trough which receives the clean tin. |
54 |
Mining |
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COFFAN, COFFEN: |
open tin work. |
54 |
Mining |
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COIN: |
a corner . |
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Household |
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COIN
STONE: |
a corner stone |
54 |
Building |
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COINAGE: |
tax
on smelted tin |
54 |
Mining |
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COINING: |
breaking a piece from a corner of a block for assay |
54 |
Mining |
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COLE, COIL: |
squid, cuttlefish. |
53 |
Fishing |
W C |
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COLL 'OME |
Verb; to remember |
57 |
General |
N C |
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COLP, COLLOP: |
a
thump, strike. O.Fr. collop. Colloping: a thrashing. |
54 |
General |
Penzance. |
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COLP:
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a short rope for carrying sheaves from rick to barn |
54 |
Farming |
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COLPAS, |
Cowlpress,
Coupress, Colpice, Colpress: the fulcrum of a lever. (Fulcrum in older
English was "underset") |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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COLPERRA:
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Lent Crocking. The throwing of crocks at doors on Shrove Tuesday. |
54 |
Tradition |
Landewednack. |
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collybrand / s |
sheet ligntning. |
20, 43 |
Weather |
WC |
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20, 56 |
Health |
WC, NC. |
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54 |
Mining |
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CODLING WATER |
water in a pan or bowl for washing the hands |
52 |
Household |
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NC, |
1940 |
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General |
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COLT: |
indiscriminately used for either sex. |
54 |
General |
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General |
WC |
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COMBE: |
earth ridge made by plough. |
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Farming |
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Geographical |
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COMBE: |
to
rake. "combe the arrish" |
54 |
Gardening |
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COOMBE: |
hollow between hills open at one end only |
54 |
Geographical |
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COMED |
Came |
20 |
General |
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WC |
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COME EER' |
Call to horse to turn left. |
57 |
Farming |
N C, |
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Personal |
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COMICAL:
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moon struck or Comet struck. "Never make a mock of a maygum; you may be struck comical yourself one day" |
54 |
Personal |
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COMIN' TO COME |
Starting to work out. Getting there when turnig cream to butter. |
20 |
Farming |
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WC |
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Squab pie.Nattlin pie. Fishy pie. Muggety pie. Star-gazey pie. Likkey pie, Conger pie. Tetty pie. Parsley pie. Giblet pie. Herby pie. Tiddago pie. Lamby-pie. Bottom pie. Piggy pie. Sour sab pie |
54 |
Household |
WC |
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Personal |
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General |
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COMPOSANTS: |
Jack Harry's Lights, St. Elmo's fire. . |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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COMPREHEND: |
to be equal to a task |
54 |
General |
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COMREESING: |
fleeting,
sliding away |
54 |
General |
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54 |
General |
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COMONACK: |
a
pigeon of mixed breed |
54 |
General |
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CON:
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intention. "More by hap than con." |
54 |
General |
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54 |
General |
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54 |
General |
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CONFAB or CONFABULATION |
Having a conversation |
75 |
General |
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WP |
1900 |
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CONFLOPTION |
Great Flurry |
20 |
General |
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WP |
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54 |
Weather |
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54 |
General |
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CONSART |
Concern |
20 |
General |
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WP |
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54 |
General |
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CONTUS ROOF: |
a plastered roof where the slates cannot be seen |
54 |
Building |
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CONGER DOUCE: |
dried conger. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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54 |
General |
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COOCH HANDED: |
left handed. |
2 |
Personal |
Stratton. |
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Coochy: |
lefthanded person. Cp. Fr. gauche. See "click handed" |
57, 54 |
Appearance |
N C &Mylor. |
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COOKS, KOOKS: |
quoits |
54 |
Game |
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COOL, COOLER: |
a well bucket. A salting tub. An oval bussa |
54 |
Household |
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COOR, CORE: |
a shift or spell of work "out of coor" |
54 |
Mining |
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Cooram, CORUM |
Order. Decorum, "keep coram!" |
54 |
General |
Wendron |
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COOSE: |
water course |
52, 57, |
General |
N C |
1940 |
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20, 57 |
General |
WC, N C |
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Coose
- |
cold.. "Coose, ed'na". |
43, 56 |
Weather |
N.C. |
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COOSY |
short, rough, coarse |
52 |
General |
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NS, |
1940 |
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COOT |
Metal plate on sole of shoe |
57, |
General |
N C |
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COOT: |
"as bald as a coot" "as poor as a coot" |
54 |
Personal |
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COOYER: |
overhanging
mass of rock |
54 |
Mining |
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20, |
General |
WC |
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COLLYBRAN, COLLABRANZ: |
summer lightning. O.E. col brand. Also smut in wheat from supposed cause. |
43 |
Weather |
WC |
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COLLABRANZ: |
smut in wheat from supposed cause. |
43 |
Farming |
WC |
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COP: |
a tuft of feathers. Coppie: a fowl with a cop. Cp. cob |
54 |
Farming / Household |
WC |
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COPE |
Verb; to jump over |
57 |
General |
N C |
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COPINS |
Rubbish [thistleheads etc] from thresher. |
57 |
Farming |
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N.C. |
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COPS: |
iron shackles used in gates. A jeweller, Penzance, was asked, "did they sell any copses for the arms?" i.e. bracelets. |
54 |
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54 |
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COR CRI: |
a
criss-cross. |
54 |
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St. Just. |
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CORB, CORVE: |
floating
crab box. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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CORDWINDER: |
a
cobbler. Egloshayle |
54 |
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Core |
a spell of work. "On night core". |
20, 43 |
Mining |
WC |
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54 |
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54 |
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CORD: |
See
Gard, Guard |
54 |
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Jago p.142. |
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54 |
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54 |
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CORKER |
usually (a fair corker': exceedingly and unexpectantly good. |
52 |
General |
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NC |
1940 |
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54 |
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54 |
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Camborne |
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CORNISH:
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to use one glass for several people; also tobacco pipe. |
54 |
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CORNISH Diamonds: |
quartz
crystal |
54 |
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CORNISH ORGAN: |
the
bellows |
54 |
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CORNISH PIES: |
see
Jago p. 143 |
54 |
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CORNISH
HUG:
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a wrestling grip |
54 |
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CORSHIP: |
a
game resembling hopscotch. |
54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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CORRAT: |
pert,
impudent. "As corrat as Crocker's
mare" . |
54 |
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E. Cornwall |
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CORREESY, CORIZZY: |
a feud, old grudge., hatred. Anglo-French: corrocier. |
54 |
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Wendron. |
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CORTILLY: |
foggy,
misty weater. (stress
on second syllable). . |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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CORWICH: |
spider
crab. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
C.S.W. |
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54 |
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COSTEAN, COSTEANING: |
getting
surface tin, wood tin. To examine back of a lode by digging pits. |
54 |
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COSSENED: |
of a tool, sharpened or hammered into shape. Vb. cossen. |
54 |
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COTHAN: |
old undisturbed stratum. (Borlase) |
54 |
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Jago p.144. |
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COTNERS: |
thatch
ropes running over the rick and weighted at the ends with stones. See
BROACH. |
54 |
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54 |
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COTTER EL: |
a
pot-hook or trammel to hang a pot over a fire; dim. of cotter. |
54 |
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COTTLEDALE: |
to
fix the extreme ends of the net to the batch. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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54 |
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COUNTHOUSE: |
mine
management office building. |
54 |
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COUNTRY: |
the ground itself near an excavation |
54 |
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COUNTRYMAN'S TREACLE: |
garlic (Carew) "Triacle" was any remedy, medicinal mixture, also of certain springs of water. |
54 |
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COURANT, Courantin' |
Capering.
Romping,
a running romp. Numbering the pushes |
54 |
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COURTLEDGE, CURTILEGE: |
yard at front or back of house. |
54 |
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COUSIN JACK: |
a Cornishman out of Cornwall. All Gladiolus byzantinus. |
54 |
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Lelant. |
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COUSSE, COWZEY, COURSEY: |
a
chat; to gossip. |
54 |
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54 |
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COVERSLIT:
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a blind. |
54 |
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COVERSLUT: |
clothing
slipped on to cover dirt. |
54 |
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54 |
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COW, COWL: |
moveable part of an oast-house; a windlass. |
54 |
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COWL |
fish basket |
43 |
Fishing |
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WC |
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COWBLAKES: |
dried
cow dung used for fuel. |
54 |
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COWBROOZ: |
a
pasty made from pilchards. |
54 |
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St. Ives. |
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54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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Cowl |
a fish basket |
54 |
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Newlyn |
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COWLECK,
COWLAKE: |
a glutton. |
54 |
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Mousehole |
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54 |
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COWL ROOZ: |
"cast net" |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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COWSEY, COOZEY: |
to chat, gossip, to loiter. |
54 |
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COWSHERNY: |
dull
colour of turbled sea. Cowshern; cow-dung. O.E. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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54 |
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COY-YCH |
rotten mess |
57 |
Farming |
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N.C. |
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COYNT: |
to
toss the head. |
54 |
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St. Ives. Context? |
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54 |
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COZ |
the flagged or cobbled area of a farmyard, usually near the house. |
52 |
Farming / General |
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NC, |
1940 |
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CRAB |
verb: to run off line. eg when ploughing. |
57 |
Farming |
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N.C. |
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CRABALONG, CRABALORGIN: |
the spider crab. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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CRABBET: |
a
scarf. Also: very clever person. |
54 |
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54 |
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CRACE |
Ridge Tile |
57 |
Common |
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N.C. |
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CRADLE: |
the
raised sides of a corn waggon. |
54 |
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Crafe,
CRAFF:
t |
To codge up. To mend. To stitch roughly as in mending saisl. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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54 |
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CRAFT, Craaft |
20, 43 |
General |
WC |
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CRAIL:
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a basket. |
54 |
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CRAIMEY MOSSEL: |
a piece of bread and cream. |
54 |
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CRAIKING |
moving about stifly as with rheumatism. |
52 |
General |
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NC, |
1940 |
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54 |
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CRAKER: |
the missel thrush. |
54 |
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Hayle |
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CRAM: |
to
crush, crease. Noun: a white lie. |
54 |
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CRAME:
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to creep. |
54 |
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CRAME:
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Also Cream. |
57 |
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N.C. |
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54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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20, 43 |
General |
WC |
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54 |
Farming |
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57 |
Farming |
N.C. |
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CRAWB:
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dried sheep skin. |
54 |
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Zennor |
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CRAWGEN:
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limpet shell . Croagen, crogan; a small matter. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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CRAYS, CRAZE, |
Crease:
the middle head of a buddle. Also ridge tiles of a roof. Also
ridge of earth on the bank of a leat caused by continual scouring of
leat. See pednang last, parts of a Buddle. |
54 |
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CRAZE MILL: |
a
stone mill formerly used to crack large sized tin ore. |
54 |
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CREAG, CRIG: |
a burrow, barrow, tumulus. [. |
54 |
St. Just] |
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CREAG: |
a
crack. Cp. W. cryk. |
54 |
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CREGSER, CRYSER, CRESSHOK: |
the kestrel. |
54 |
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54 |
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CREASER, CRESSER: |
a half grown bream. Also a person who exaggerates. |
54 |
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CREECHER: |
the missel thrush. Originally Screecher E.D.D. |
54 |
St. Buryan. |
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54 |
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57 |
Farming |
N.C. |
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54 |
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CREEN: |
of
stone, readily split, to shale away. Cp. |
54 |
St. Ives. |
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54 |
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CREDDLE: CROWDLE: |
to loiter. |
54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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CREEPY STOOL |
a very low stool for the smallest children to set pon in front the fire. |
52 |
Household |
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NC |
1940 |
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54 |
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ancient broken down hut. From shaken down. "an excavation in a bank roofed to make a shelter" |
54 |
Bottrall |
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CRELL, CRILL: |
the frayed ends of a boryer. See Crully. |
54 |
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CREW: |
the Manx shearwater. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
C.S.W |
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54 |
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43, 52,56, 57 |
Common |
N.C. |
1940 |
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CRIB:
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a comb or crest. |
43 |
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CRIBBED: |
broken china ornament, especially a projecting part. |
54 |
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CRIBBED AWAY |
worn away. 'the road has cribbed away at the edges. |
43 |
General |
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WC, |
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CRIBBEN |
part of the harness of a "Vore" hoss |
52 |
Farming |
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NC |
1940 |
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CRIBBLE: |
to
fray out. . Also, a grating across a stream (stream-works) |
54 |
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54 |
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CRICKEN, CRICKS, CRINNICKS: |
dry sticks at end of a furze rick; hedge kindling wood. |
54 |
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CRICK: |
crick-stone.
Another name for the Men-an-tol or other |
54 |
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57 |
N.C. |
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CRICKLE: |
of a prop in a mine, to break or totter under weight. |
54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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CRICKMOLE, CRICKMAL: |
a somersault. |
54 |
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57 |
Farming |
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N.C. |
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54 |
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54 |
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CRINGLE: |
a gate or door hasp. |
54 |
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43 |
General |
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WC, |
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CRIM, CROOM, CRUMMET: |
a
crumb. Also, a short time, "wait a croom." |
54, 57 |
Common |
N.C. |
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CRINION: |
barley bran. |
54 |
St. Just |
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CRINK:
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to turn or twist. |
54 |
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CRINNY: |
to shiver. |
54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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CRIPPLE: |
any
creeping thing. Long or Slow cripple: the slowworm or blind-worm. |
54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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CRITICAL: |
A
critical parish: one difficult to deal with |
54 |
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CRO: |
a mine spirit, the zellan. |
54 |
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CROAGER |
a very small matter |
43 |
General |
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WC |
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54 |
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CROCK: |
a large cast iron open vessel hung on the crooks at one side of the open hearth.. |
52, |
Household |
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NC |
1940 |
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CROCK ON: |
an invitation to take one's arm |
54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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Croggan, CRAWGEN: |
54 |
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CROOK, CROOPY, CROOP: |
to
bend, to stoop down. |
54 |
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CROOK |
Hook, - eg. boot-crook |
57 |
Farming |
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N.C. |
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54 |
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CROOKS: . |
wooden hoops supporting panniers. |
O.C.II no.1 |
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CROOKS |
Two iron hooks suspended from a bar across the the chimney ; they were adjustable for height and could be slid sideways to bring them over the fire. [see CROCK] |
52 |
Household |
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NC |
1940 |
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54 |
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CROON: |
to
wail. |
54 |
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54 |
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CRONECK: |
the
toad. Cor. cronek |
54 |
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CROP: |
the
best of the concentrated tin. |
54 |
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54 |
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43, 54, |
General |
WC, |
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54 |
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54 |
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CRORGY, CROUGING: |
a
miserable person; always complaining. Also, shuffling. |
54 |
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CROSS CUT |
mining
term. Also, contradictory person, "always on the cross-cut." |
54 |
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CROSS SIGHTED: |
squinting. |
54 |
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54 |
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CROW: |
the top sheaf at the ridge of a rick. |
54 |
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20, 43 |
General / farming |
WC |
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54 |
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54 |
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CROWST, CROUST: |
forenoon snack (crust) |
43 |
WC |
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54 |
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CROWD: |
to purr (cat) |
54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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CROWDY: |
to
play the fiddle. Cor. crowd, a fiddle. |
54 |
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CROWDY CRAWN: |
wooden
sieve with sheepskin bottom used for oddments and as a tambourine. |
54 |
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Crowdy-scratch: |
the fiddle stick. |
54 |
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54 |
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54 |
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CROWSECK: |
cross
tempered. |
54 |
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Top-most
sheaf in row of corn
Cp. Welsh, crewyn, last load of corn. |
54 |
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54 |
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CRUB |
angle of blade to shovel stick |
57 |
Farming |
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N.C. |
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CRUCKEY |
verb: to crouch down |
57 |
Common |
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N.C. |
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CRUDDLE: |
to
curdle, go sour. Also of ice; "too crudley to go skating." |
54 |
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54 |
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CRUDGS, CRUDDY: |
sour
milk formerly taken to Penzance market, carried in pitchers on women's
heads. |
54 |
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43, 57 |
Common |
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WC, N.C. |
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CRUEL: |
emphatic interjection. "cruel shape", "cruel wisht." |
54 |
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54 |
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CUFF AWVER |
verb: to come to terms, to settle |
57 |
Common |
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N.C. |
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54 |
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CRULLY, CRAIL: |
curly
and verb, to curl. |
54 |
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CRUM |
when the angle made by a tool shaft to the blade is small, it is crum. |
52 |
General |
|
NC |
1940 |
|
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54 |
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54 |
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CRUNK: |
to
croak, of avens. Cp. Runky. |
54 |
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CRUSELING |
being fretful (grizzling) |
54 |
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CRYING THE NECK: |
the
harvest ceremony. |
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CUBY LICK: |
the house-leek (Sempervivum) . a parish jest? CRUCKLE DOCK, |
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BUTTONS: . |
the burdock. See COCKLE |
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CUCKOLD: |
the
red gurnard. |
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CUDDY: |
to hide. Also, a cluster, cache. |
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CUFF |
A piece of leather or old gum-boot worn over the back of right hand and fore arm when paring thorns and brambles. |
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Farming |
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CUFFED: |
bruised
(scuffed) "they taties are all cuffed in they picking
machines." |
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CUFFAN, CUFFERN: |
a hen crab. |
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CULFER, CULPHER: |
damage done to crab pots. |
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CUKOO |
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CULFERAS:
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an ungainly disagreeable person |
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CULFERED: |
over
cultivated ground. |
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CULIACK: |
good
for nothing. Helston (1933) Cor. culyak? from cul, lean, or col, chaff. |
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CULVER HOUND: |
the
nurse hound. |
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CUMMIS-ZON |
Come along |
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Moss. Lichen. Mildew, . Also, slippery. "mind the cuney footpath." |
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CUNDY: |
to shift a baulk of timber from side to side to bring it parallel with another. Also, winding in and out. |
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CUPEL: |
a
small vessel used in assaying. |
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CUPBOARD BED: |
a
built-in bed, lit-clos. |
54 |
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CUPLAW, COPLAW: |
see [C.S.W 79.]. |
53, |
Fishing |
W C |
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CURM:
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to set, as mortar. |
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CURRIDGE, KERRIDGE: |
the pluck of an animal or afterbirth. source |
54 |
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CURWILLET, CAWILLY, TOWILLEE: |
the sanderling, also the ringed plover. |
53, |
Fishing |
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CURZING |
talking idly, gossiping |
43 |
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CUSH NOW! |
Relax. Said to comfort a person who is upset. |
52 |
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1940 |
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CUSKY, KISKY: |
corky,
brittle wood. "gone all kisky" |
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CUSTANCE: |
punishment, in game of marbles, when one is moved while in play. |
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Cussant, CUSS'NT |
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CUT-EEN |
Verb: to plough first furrow for "Gathering" |
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CUTROUND |
bap or split (bread) |
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CYPRESS: |
the tamarisk. |
54 |
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CUZZAL,
CUSSLE:
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soft, slow, quiet. softly and fairly. Also, to deceive. |
54 |
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Words
without definition in Nance's list: CANX, CARLY, CAP-SCUD, CASAR, CAWISE, CHUCKY-CHEESE, COLM, CONVENSTATS, CULLYBOOGEN, COW-SAIL. |
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