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A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in Wiltshire
A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in Wiltshire Author:John Yonge Akerman Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3E. Earnest. See " Yernest," deposit money given to bind a bargain. Eath, or Yeath. Earth. E e z. Yes. The Anglo-Saxon response Eyre, must have had the exact sound of this word, th... more »e textit{g being but slightly sounded, or, perhaps, sometimes not sounded at all: thus Eeclypobe, under the Normans, became textit{yclyped, and the De prefixed to so many Saxon words, made room for y. El d e r n. An elder tree, anything made of elder. Elmin. Made of elm, "an chain tree." Empt. To empty, to pour out. E o w. An ewe. A.S. Eap, or Eopa. Ether Edder. A hedge; also the twisted wands with which a "stake hedge" is made. They have a rhyme in Wiltshire on the formation of a " stake and ether hedge"— Section 4" An textit{eldern stake and textit{black-thorn ether, Will make a hedge to last for ever." They say that an elder stake will last in the ground longer than au iron bar of the same size. Both these words are from the Anglo-Saxon, ESep and Ebon. E11l e. A nettle. Evet, or Effet. An eft. A.S. Epeca, Epece. F. Faggot. A textit{trimmed bundle of fire wood. A word generally known, derived from the French textit{Fagot. See Bavin. Fags. I'fags. Indeed! truly! l'faith. Fang. To strangle, to bind a wounded limb and stop the flow of blood. The Anglo- Saxon Fanj, signifies a taking ; but it is probable that it was also used for textit{binding ; the textit{binding of a thief must have been included in the old manorial rights of textit{infangetheofe and textit{outfangetheofe. Fashion. A corruption of textit{Farcey, a disease in horses. An old Wiltshire farmer, when his grand-daughters appeared before him with any new piece of finery, would ask what it all meant. The girls would reply, textit{"fashion, gran'vather!" when the old man would rejoin, " Ha ! many a good horse has died o'...« less