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From the Stratton School log book of 1873
6th June 1873 'In the upper standards nearly all the boys are away pulling weed 'Charlie' for the farmers.'
13th June 1873 'Charlie' pulling still continues although a few of the bigger boys have returned that were at work'

Farming

N.C.

1873

General

General

A tree-trunk or plank across a stream

General

CLUME-BUZZA

an earthen pan

Household

1790

Chamber (in)

ln bed. Bedroom. Upstairs (under bed utensil)

Household

Mining

General

General

Chaunt or chaunty

General

Clothing

Child (usually a girl)

43, 54, 56

Common

WC, N.C.

Cheeld-vean

Little child. Term of endearment

General

General

Health

CHEEN

Sprout, potatoes, to cheen out when they sprout. We cheen them when we break off the sprouts.

Farming / Gardening

NC,

1940

Cheens

The loins. The quarters of a house

20, 43

General

Cheese apples

Pounded apples ready for pressing

Household

Cheese-at

Stop it

General

Cheening

The sprouting of grain etc

Faming

Cherks

Cinders, ashes

Household

CHEST WAGON

a wagon fitted with raised sides and usually limited lock.

Farming

1940

Chets

Kittens

General

Cheevy

Thin, miserable-looking

Personal

Chibble

A kind of small onion

Gardening

CHIBBLES

Green tops from Spring onions.

Household

N C

Chick

To crouch down. "Chicky down"

General

Chickell. Chickchacker. Chicker

The wheat-ear

Farming

CHIDS

Spouts on potatoes

Farming

N C

Chiffer. Chiffering

To drive a bargain. To haggle

General

Chill

An iron lamp for burning fish oil

Household

Health

General

A valance hung from a shelf

Household

Personal

Personal

CHITLINS

Stones from castrated lambs/pigs fry.

Farming/Household

N C

Chip

The foot of a plough

Farming

CHIPPING AND CHAPPING

talking in an affected, refrained way.

General

1940

Chitterlings

Small entrails (usually pigs)

Household

Chivvy

A row, fuss, uproar

General

CHOCKS

slits on fingers.

General

Chod

A stew - also a stodge

Health

Choog-choogy

Little pigs - also calling pigs to their meal

Farming

N C

General

General

General

Healthy-looking. Full-faced

52, 54

General

NC,

1940

Chuck

Throat. "Dry about the chuck"

Health

Chucked-sheep

Nothing to say. Contempt

General

CHUCKED OR STARVED

Famished

Generla

CHUCKIN

Very thirsty

General

N C

Chuckle-head

Stupid person

20, 43

Pensonal

Chucky cheese

Fruit of the mallow plant

General

CHUFF

Sulking

52, 57

General

N C

Churl Chores

A small job. Housework

Household

Church-hay

The churchyard

General

Churchtown

Village around the church

54, 56,

General

N.C.

Household

General

Churs --

chores, household duties.

Household

Cider-pounld

Cider press

Farming

Clabby, also clibby

General

General

Out of health. Often ill

Health

Clam

A footbridge. Cobblers spring vice

General

Clain

Clean

General

Clap

Prattling, chattering

General

Clape

A clasp

General

CLAT

Turf cut with Cornish shovel. cut to shape not a tob.

52,57

Farming

N C

1940

Personal

General

Beam over Cornish cooking range

Household

General

General

General

Household

Tolerably well. In good health

Health

Chich

To fasten

General

CLIBBY

Sticky

General

N C

CLICK

fasten, "click the gate"

General

Click. Clip

A sharp blow

General

Click~handed. Clicky

Left-handed. Awkward. Clumsy

17 ,20, 43, 57

General

MC, WC, NC

Clidgy. Clodgy

Sticky toffee

20, 43, 52

General

1940

Clidge

To cling, to join together

General

Clintlers

Goose grass

Farming / Gardening

CLITS

The toes of a cloven footed animal

Farming

1940

Clitter

A confused noise. To clutter up

General

Butcher

43, 52, 54, 56

General

N.C.

1940

CLOME-AUV'N

Earthen Ware Oven.

Household

N C

CLOB STANKERS

heavy boots

General

Clob. Cob

Clay mixed with straw for building use

General

Clodw. Clodgey

Boggy. Muddy (Clodgy Lane)

General

CLONK

Verb; to gulp down quickly

General

N C

Clop. Clopper. Clopping

Limp. A lame person. Limping

Personal

CLOSE HOM

shut the door

General

Clouching.Skulking

Unreliable (person)

General

Clout

An old cloth or rag.

20, 43, 57

Household

WC, NC

Clout

Verb; to swipe or thump.

Household

N C

Close

Reserved. Reticent

Personal

CLUCK, Clucky Hin

A sitting hen

52, 20

General

NC, WC

1940

Clunk. Clunked

Swallow, gulp

43, 52, 54, 54

General

WC, N.C,

1940

CLUNKER:

the uvula. The wiggly little thing that hangs down in back of the mouth. Clunca (Borlase)

Health

Clubbish

Cruel. Brutish

General

Clum

Hands benumbed with cold

Personal

Clush

To nestle together

General

NC,

1940

Clushy-in

To draw neater together

General

Clut.

A gap in the hedge. To fall in a heap

General

Clutty down

To crouch down. Squat

General

CLYNE:

Seabirds feast. indicating a shoal.

Fishing

Mevagissey,

CLYSTY, CLISTY:

moist as badly made bread or a bad potatoe

General

Co..............

Come, or go

General

COADY, CAWED:

liver disease of sheep, liver-fluke.

Farming

Stratton.

COAGERS WAX

cobblers wax

General

Coajers-wax

Shoemakers wax or polish

Cobbler

COARSE, COOSE:

cold (of weather)

Weather

COARSE TOWSER

Rough hessian apron

General

Cob

Forelock. A crest of hair or feathers

20, 43

General

COB: or CLOB,

adobe, clay and straw for walls to break into small pieces with a cobbing hammer

Building

N C

Cob -

horse's mane, also boy's forelock

General / Personal

COB, COBBA:

a gull. [C.S.W. ] Also, jocularly, a simpleton

General

Cobb

A lout

Personal

COBBATY CUT, COBBLEDENUT:

"down nut, jee jaw, first blaw" A game with hazel nuts.

Game

[O.C. Vol. 11 no.8, p.43.]

Cobbing.

breaking ore into small pieces

Mining

Cobbing hammer

Hammer used in breaking ore

Mining

Cobble-de-cut-nuts

Hazelnuts

Gardening / Food

COBMORE, COGMORE:

clubroot in cabbage.

Gardening / Farming

St. Neot

Cobouts

Hazelnuts. Game played with nuts on string

Game

COBSHAN, COPTION:

money or savings. Caption, old legal term.

Personal

Cock

To cock hay into a pile

Farming

COCK AN BAWBA, COCKEN BABA:

toy boat.

53,

Fishing

W C

COCKS AND HENS:

plantains.

Gardening

COCKBOAT:

attend the mackerel seine.

53,

Fishing

W C

COCKCOMBS:

the Montbretia plant

Gardening

COCKDAYKA:

53,

Fishing

W C

COCKDOLLAR:

to discharge excrement, to let fly with heels as of a donkey.

General

caugh dyllo, cacdyllo

COCKEDGE, COCK HEDGE:

a low fence of thorn or other plant.

Gardening

COCKETT

Small load

Farming

N C

COCKLE:

schorl or Capel. Rock derived from Killas.

Mining

COCKLE BELLS,

cockle buttons, cockle dock: the burdock plant. From cuckold buttons?

Gardening

COCKLEHEAD:

to turn over heels in bed; part of a rhyme.

Game

COCKFIGHTER:

a game with plantain heads.

Game

COCK ROBIN:

the red campion (Lychnis dioica)

Gardening

COCK-HAW:

a game played with hazel nuts.

Game

See Couch & Courtney p.13

Cock-hedge

A privet hedge

Gardening

COCK-LEE BREAD.

Early morning bread

Household

Cock-button

The burrs of the burdock

Gardening

cocor:

"quiver, scabbard"

Archery

COCKABELLS, CONCUBBELLS, CONKERBELLS:

icicles.

Weather

COCK'S EYE:

a halo round the sun or moon.

53,

Fishing

W C

COCKATHODON:

the Manx shearwater.

53,

Fishing

W C

COD:

the bag of a net.

53,

Fishing

W C

Coddle. Coddling. Churs.

A mess. Wet and dirty jobs

General

Coddle

to be busy doing nothing.

General

Codge. Codger

Untidy, Slovenly............. A slovenly worker

General

WC,

CODDLY:

messy

General

CODDLE:

see CAUDLE.

Codlin' water

waiter unfit for drinking.

General

WC,

CODNOR:

a stew.

Food

COE, COW:

a small hut of clods or boards over a shaft to keep it dry.

Mining

COFFER:

small water trough which receives the clean tin.

Mining

COFFAN, COFFEN:

open tin work.

Mining

COIN:

a corner .

Household

COIN STONE: Coyne. Coign.

a corner stone

Building

COINAGE:

tax on smelted tin

Mining

COINING:

breaking a piece from a corner of a block for assay

Mining

COLE, COIL:

squid, cuttlefish.

Fishing

W C

COLL 'OME

Verb; to remember

General

N C

COLP, COLLOP:

a thump, strike. O.Fr. collop. Colloping: a thrashing.

General

Penzance.

COLP:

a short rope for carrying sheaves from rick to barn

Farming

COLPAS,

Cowlpress, Coupress, Colpice, Colpress: the fulcrum of a lever. (Fulcrum in older English was "underset")

53,

Fishing

W C

COLPERRA:

Lent Crocking. The throwing of crocks at doors on Shrove Tuesday.

Tradition

Landewednack.

collybrand / s

sheet ligntning.

20, 43

Weather

Collywobbles

Stomach rumblings

20, 56

Health

WC, NC.

Coffine

Hollows in the earth caused by subsidence

Mining

Culloping

A good thrashing or beating

General

CODLING WATER

water in a pan or bowl for washing the hands

Household

NC,

1940

Colp

Cuff. Thump

General

COLT:

indiscriminately used for either sex.

General

Come-by-chance

Accidental. An illegitimate child

General

COMBE:

earth ridge made by plough.

Farming

Combe. Coom

A valley

Geographical

COMBE:

to rake. "combe the arrish"

Gardening

COOMBE:

hollow between hills open at one end only

Geographical

COMED

Came

General

COME EER'

Call to horse to turn left.

Farming

N C,

Comical

Temper

Personal

COMICAL:

moon struck or Comet struck. "Never make a mock of a maygum; you may be struck comical yourself one day"

Personal

COMIN' TO COME

Starting to work out. Getting there when turnig cream to butter.

Farming

Comish pies

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

Household

Comfortable

Easy-going. Agreeable

Personal

Compartner

A companion. A consort

General

COMPOSANTS:

Jack Harry's Lights, St. Elmo's fire. .

53,

Fishing

W C

COMPREHEND:

to be equal to a task

General

COMREESING:

fleeting, sliding away

General

General

General

COMONACK:

a pigeon of mixed breed

General

CON:

intention. "More by hap than con."

General

Condiddle

To get anything by stealth.

General

Conduddle

Conceit

General

CONFAB or CONFABULATION

Having a conversation

General

1900

CONFLOPTION

Great Flurry

General

Weather

General

CONSART

Concern

General

Continny

Continue

General

CONTUS ROOF:

a plastered roof where the slates cannot be seen

Building

CONGER DOUCE:

dried conger.

53,

Fishing

W C

Confloption

A great flurry

General

COOCH HANDED:

left handed.

Personal

Stratton.

Coochy:

lefthanded person. Cp. Fr. gauche. See "click handed"

57, 54

Appearance

N C &Mylor.

COOKS, KOOKS:

quoits

Game

COOL, COOLER:

a well bucket. A salting tub. An oval bussa

Household

COOR, CORE:

a shift or spell of work "out of coor"

Mining

Cooram, CORUM

Order. Decorum, "keep coram!"

General

Wendron

COOSE:

water course

52, 57,

General

N C

1940

Coose. Coosing

Chase. Hunt, Pursue

20, 57

General

WC, N C

Coose -

cold.. "Coose, ed'na".

43, 56

Weather

N.C.

COOSY

short, rough, coarse

General

NS,

1940

COOT

Metal plate on sole of shoe

57,

General

N C

COOT:

"as bald as a coot" "as poor as a coot"

Personal

COOYER:

overhanging mass of rock

Mining

Cooze. Coozing

ldle gossip. Wasting time

20,

General

COLLYBRAN, COLLABRANZ:

summer lightning. O.E. col brand. Also smut in wheat from supposed cause.

Weather

COLLABRANZ:

smut in wheat from supposed cause.

Farming

COP:

a tuft of feathers. Coppie: a fowl with a cop. Cp. cob

Farming / Household

COPE

Verb; to jump over

General

N C

COPINS

Rubbish [thistleheads etc] from thresher.

Farming

N.C.

COPS:

iron shackles used in gates. A jeweller, Penzance, was asked, "did they sell any copses for the arms?" i.e. bracelets.

Copper-fInch

The chaffinch

COR CRI:

a criss-cross.

St. Just.

CORB, CORVE:

floating crab box.

53,

Fishing

W C

CORDWINDER:

a cobbler. Egloshayle

Core

a spell of work. "On night core".

20, 43

Mining

Cornish

To Cornish together. Sharing a cup

Cornish hug

A powerful wrestling grip

CORD:

See Gard, Guard

Jago p.142.

Core. Chore

A spell of work

Corisy-Corrosy

Hatred. III-feeling. Ill;-will

CORKER

usually (a fair corker': exceedingly and unexpectantly good.

General

1940

Camborne

CORNISH:

to use one glass for several people; also tobacco pipe.

CORNISH Diamonds:

quartz crystal

CORNISH ORGAN:

the bellows

CORNISH PIES:

see Jago p. 143

CORNISH HUG:

a wrestling grip

CORSHIP:

a game resembling hopscotch.

Cortilly

Cortilly weather. Foggy or misty

Corniwillen

The lapwing

CORRAT:

pert, impudent. "As corrat as Crocker's mare" .

E. Cornwall

CORREESY, CORIZZY:

a feud, old grudge., hatred. Anglo-French: corrocier.

Wendron.

CORTILLY:

foggy, misty weater. (stress on second syllable). .

53,

Fishing

W C

CORWICH:

spider crab.

53,

Fishing

W C

C.S.W.

Costan, COSTEN:

A flat basket, usually made of straw

COSTEAN, COSTEANING:

getting surface tin, wood tin. To examine back of a lode by digging pits.

COSSENED:

of a tool, sharpened or hammered into shape. Vb. cossen.

COTHAN:

old undisturbed stratum. (Borlase)

Jago p.144.

COTNERS:

thatch ropes running over the rick and weighted at the ends with stones. See BROACH.

Cott

Cottage, house

COTTER EL:

a pot-hook or trammel to hang a pot over a fire; dim. of cotter.

COTTLEDALE:

to fix the extreme ends of the net to the batch.

53,

Fishing

W C

Cotton-on

Grasp the idea. Comprehend

COUNTHOUSE:

mine management office building.

COUNTRY:

the ground itself near an excavation

COUNTRYMAN'S TREACLE:

garlic (Carew) "Triacle" was any remedy, medicinal mixture, also of certain springs of water.

COURANT, Courantin'

Capering. Romping, a running romp. Numbering the pushes for a child on a swing.

COURTLEDGE, CURTILEGE:

yard at front or back of house.

COUSIN JACK:

a Cornishman out of Cornwall. All Gladiolus byzantinus.

Lelant.

COUSSE, COWZEY, COURSEY:

a chat; to gossip.

Coursey

To go gossiping

COVERSLIT:

a blind.

COVERSLUT:

clothing slipped on to cover dirt.

Cover-slut

One who takes blame for someone else

COW, COWL:

moveable part of an oast-house; a windlass.

COWL

fish basket

Fishing

COWBLAKES:

dried cow dung used for fuel.

COWBROOZ:

a pasty made from pilchards.

St. Ives.

Cow-flaps

Basket held by strap on head

Cowl

a fish basket

Newlyn

COWLECK, COWLAKE:

a glutton.

Mousehole

Cowle

.A fish-basket

COWL ROOZ:

"cast net"

53,

Fishing

W C

COWSEY, COOZEY:

to chat, gossip, to loiter.

COWSHERNY:

dull colour of turbled sea. Cowshern; cow-dung. O.E.

53,

Fishing

W C

Cousin Jack.

Local term of contempt

COY-YCH

rotten mess

Farming

N.C.

COYNT:

to toss the head.

St. Ives. Context?

Coxy.

Pert. Saucy

COZ

the flagged or cobbled area of a farmyard, usually near the house.

Farming / General

NC,

1940

CRAB

verb: to run off line. eg when ploughing.

Farming

N.C.

CRABALONG, CRABALORGIN:

the spider crab.

53,

Fishing

W C

CRABBET:

a scarf. Also: very clever person.

Crabbed

Irritable, Artful

CRACE

Ridge Tile

Common

N.C.

CRADLE:

the raised sides of a corn waggon.

Crafe, CRAFF: t

To codge up. To mend. To stitch roughly as in mending saisl.

53,

Fishing

W C

Craffing.

Rough, mending

CRAFT, Craaft

Croft. Uncultivated land

20, 43

General

CRAIL:

a basket.

CRAIMEY MOSSEL:

a piece of bread and cream.

CRAIKING

moving about stifly as with rheumatism.

General

NC,

1940

Crake. Craking

A harsh cry. To complain

CRAKER:

the missel thrush.

Hayle

CRAM:

to crush, crease. Noun: a white lie.

CRAME:

to creep.

CRAME:

Also Cream.

N.C.

Crams

Tall stories

Cremmed with louch.

The lintel over a chimney

20, 43

General

Farming

Farming

N.C.

CRAWB:

dried sheep skin.

Zennor

CRAWGEN:

limpet shell . Croagen, crogan; a small matter.

53,

Fishing

W C

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.

CRAZE MILL:

a stone mill formerly used to crack large sized tin ore.

CREAG, CRIG:

a burrow, barrow, tumulus. [.

St. Just]

CREAG:

a crack. Cp. W. cryk.

CREGSER, CRYSER, CRESSHOK:

the kestrel.

Creamy mossel

Bread and cream

CREASER, CRESSER:

a half grown bream. Also a person who exaggerates.

CREECHER:

the missel thrush. Originally Screecher E.D.D.

St. Buryan.

Creem

To squeeze. Trembling, fear

Creem

also to grip firly in jaws.

Farming

N.C.

Creen

To grieve. Complain

CREEN:

of stone, readily split, to shale away. Cp.

St. Ives.

Creener. Creening

An ailing sickly person. Complaining

CREDDLE: CROWDLE:

to loiter.

CREEPY STOOL

a very low stool for the smallest children to set pon in front the fire.

Household

1940

Creeved

Partly-cooked

Crellas

ancient broken down hut. From shaken down. "an excavation in a bank roofed to make a shelter"

Bottrall

CRELL, CRILL:

the frayed ends of a boryer. See Crully.

CREW:

the Manx shearwater.

53,

Fishing

W C

C.S.W

Cribbage face

A thin wrinkled face

Crib

Light luncheon. Crouse

43, 52,56, 57

Common

N.C.

1940

CRIB:

a comb or crest.

CRIBBED:

broken china ornament, especially a projecting part.

CRIBBED AWAY

worn away. 'the road has cribbed away at the edges.

General

WC,

CRIBBEN

part of the harness of a "Vore" hoss

Farming

1940

CRIBBLE:

to fray out. . Also, a grating across a stream (stream-works)

Cribber

A small eater -'picker of food

CRICKEN, CRICKS, CRINNICKS:

dry sticks at end of a furze rick; hedge kindling wood.

CRICK:

crick-stone. Another name for the Men-an-tol or other ancient holed stone, derived from its power of curing children's complaints.

Cricket

A low, three-legged stool

N.C.

CRICKLE:

of a prop in a mine, to break or totter under weight.

Crickly

Frail, rickety

Cricklin

Breaking down from overweight

Crickling

Collecting items for marriage

CRICKMOLE, CRICKMAL:

a somersault.

Crid

Curd from mastitis affected milk,

Farming

N.C.

CRINGLE:

a gate or door hasp.

Crim

To shiver with cold

General

WC,

CRIM, CROOM, CRUMMET:

a crumb. Also, a short time, "wait a croom."

54, 57

Common

N.C.

CRINION:

barley bran.

St. Just

CRINK:

to turn or twist.

CRINNY:

to shiver.

Crips

Crisps

Cripse.

To craze glass earthenware

CRIPPLE:

any creeping thing. Long or Slow cripple: the slowworm or blind-worm.

CRITICAL:

A critical parish: one difficult to deal with

CRO:

a mine spirit, the zellan.

CROAGER

a very small matter

General

Crock

Three-legged iron cooking pot

CROCK:

a large cast iron open vessel hung on the crooks at one side of the open hearth..

52,

Household

1940

CROCK ON:

an invitation to take one's arm

Croder. Crowdy.

A fiddler

Crofts

Unbroken rough ground

Croggan, CRAWGEN:

Limpet shell

CROOK, CROOPY, CROOP:

to bend, to stoop down.

CROOK

Hook, - eg. boot-crook

Farming

N.C.

Crooked

Arm in arm

CROOKS: .

wooden hoops supporting panniers.

O.C.II no.1

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]

Household

1940

Croom. Crim

A small quantity

CROON:

to wail.

Croony

Foolish. Imbecile

CRONECK:

the toad. Cor. cronek

CROP:

the best of the concentrated tin.

Crop of the bunch

Best of the family. Prettiest

Croust. Crowst

Food taken between meals

43, 54,

General

WC,

Crope

To be miserly

CRORGY, CROUGING:

a miserable person; always complaining. Also, shuffling.

CROSS CUT

mining term. Also, contradictory person, "always on the cross-cut."

CROSS SIGHTED:

squinting.

Couging

Shuffling. Walking with heavy tread

CROW:

the top sheaf at the ridge of a rick.

Crow

Pigsty

20, 43

General / farming

Crow. Craw

Boast. Brag.

Crowd

A fiddle. To purr. To press

CROWST, CROUST:

forenoon snack (crust)

Cruddly

Curley

CROWD:

to purr (cat)

Crowder

A slow-coach. Dawdler

Crowding

Purring. 'The cat's crowding'

Crowdling

Loitering

CROWDY:

to play the fiddle. Cor. crowd, a fiddle.

CROWDY CRAWN:

wooden sieve with sheepskin bottom used for oddments and as a tambourine.

Crowdy-scratch:

the fiddle stick.

CROWSECK:

cross tempered.

Crow-sheaf

Top-most sheaf in row of corn Cp. Welsh, crewyn, last load of corn.

Crows-an-wrea

Witches croft

CRUB

angle of blade to shovel stick

Farming

N.C.

CRUCKEY

verb: to crouch down

Common

N.C.

CRUDDLE:

to curdle, go sour. Also of ice; "too crudley to go skating."

Cruddly

Curly

CRUDGS, CRUDDY:

sour milk formerly taken to Penzance market, carried in pitchers on women's heads.

Cruel

Cruel-ard. Extremely difficult

43, 57

Common

WC, N.C.

CRUEL:

emphatic interjection. "cruel shape", "cruel wisht."

Cruel fine

Very fine

CUFF AWVER

verb: to come to terms, to settle

Common

N.C.

Crully-head.

Curly-head

CRULLY, CRAIL:

curly and verb, to curl.

CRUM

when the angle made by a tool shaft to the blade is small, it is crum.

General

1940

Crumbed. Crumb

Very fine. Drawn together with cold

Crumptins

Small deforned apples

CRUNK:

to croak, of avens. Cp. Runky.

CRUSELING

being fretful (grizzling)

CRYING THE NECK:

the harvest ceremony.

Cockoo

Harebell or bluebell

CUBY LICK:

the house-leek (Sempervivum) . a parish jest? CRUCKLE DOCK,

Tregony

CUCKHOLD BUTTONS: .

the burdock. See COCKLE

CUCKOLD:

the red gurnard.

53,

Fishing

W C

General

CUDDY:

to hide. Also, a cluster, cache.

Newlyn

Cue

Protective iron on heel of boot

43, 52

General

WC, N.C.

1940

CUFF

A piece of leather or old gum-boot worn over the back of right hand and fore arm when paring thorns and brambles.

Farming

N.C.

1940

CUFFED:

bruised (scuffed) "they taties are all cuffed in they picking machines."

CUFFAN, CUFFERN:

a hen crab.

53,

Fishing

W C

CULFER, CULPHER:

damage done to crab pots.

43, 31

WC,

CUKOO

A small plant with purple flowers like a minature foxglove in flower april, may

Horticulture

N.C.

Culver

Pigeon or dove

CULFERAS: .

an ungainly disagreeable person

CULFERED:

over cultivated ground.

CULIACK:

good for nothing. Helston (1933) Cor. culyak? from cul, lean, or col, chaff.

CULVER HOUND:

the nurse hound.

53,

Fishing

W C

Culverhouse

A dovecote

Culiak

A good-for-nothing person

CUMMIS-ZON

Come along

General

Cundard

A conduit. Waterhole

Cuney. Cuny

Moss. Lichen. Mildew, . Also, slippery. "mind the cuney footpath."

20, 43

General

CUNDY:

to shift a baulk of timber from side to side to bring it parallel with another. Also, winding in and out.

St. Just

CUPEL:

a small vessel used in assaying.

CUPBOARD BED:

a built-in bed, lit-clos.

CUPLAW, COPLAW:

see [C.S.W 79.].

53,

Fishing

W C

Curls

Carols. Glands of the neck

20, 43,

General

Curly

Curlew

Cummis-zon

Come on. An invitation

CURM:

to set, as mortar.

CURRIDGE, KERRIDGE:

the pluck of an animal or afterbirth. source

CURWILLET, CAWILLY, TOWILLEE:

the sanderling, also the ringed plover.

53,

Fishing

W C

CURZING

talking idly, gossiping

General

WC,

CUSH NOW!

Relax. Said to comfort a person who is upset.

General

N.C.

1940

CUSKY, KISKY:

corky, brittle wood. "gone all kisky"

Custa

Can you? Will you?

General

CUSTANCE:

punishment, in game of marbles, when one is moved while in play.

Custica

A blow across the hand

Custis

A wooden hand-slapper

O.C.III p.218.

Cussal. Cuzzle

Deceitful

Cussant, CUSS'NT

Cannot

20, 43,

General

CUT-EEN

Verb: to plough first furrow for "Gathering"

Farming

N.C.

Cutit

Pert. Impudent. Sharp in reply

CUTROUND

bap or split (bread)

Household

N.C.

Cuyn

Coin

CYCLEPT:

a species of fish caught in the Fal.

CYPRESS:

the tamarisk.

CUZZAL, CUSSLE:

soft, slow, quiet. softly and fairly. Also, to deceive.

Words without definition in Nance's list:

CANX, CARLY, CAP-SCUD, CASAR, CAWISE, CHUCKY-CHEESE, COLM, CONVENSTATS, CULLYBOOGEN, COW-SAIL.