wittywind witty widdich

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
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withy 120 A GLOSSARY quest, quist, or quice from a word root meaning to complain, whine. WOODWEX, Woadwaxen. Genista Tinctoria. Dryers' greenweed. WOOLCOMBER. The trade of woolcomber is often found in the old jury lists of Blackmore men. The wool was combed, or carded, by two cards [PT] with square backs like brush backs and with handles, but faced with wire instead of bristles, and the wool was pulled for a while between the cards, and then rolled off in rollers. The "o" in roller has the sound of "o" in collar. A tale (valeat quantum) was formerly told of an idle wife in Blackmore, who took in wool to card, and after too long a time had carded only two or three rollers and began to fear a scolding from her husband, who knew not as yet the truth of the wool, but believed in the witchcraft of Gammar, A.B. In the night she aroused her man with "O, I've ahad twice the sea[umlaut]me drea[umlaut]m that A.B. had bewitched all my rollers back again into loose wool. I'm sure it must true. Do now step down an' zee." John did so, and came back with " 'Tis true enough. The rollers be out again in loose wool all but two or dree, an' they be so slack that they'll soon volly the rest." WO'OSE. Worse. WOPS. A wasp. Waeps, with ps for sp, is the old Saxon form of the word, and our brethren of Holstein still call a wasp en weps. WORDLE. World. WORM. A small tool for winding or twisting of hay bands. WORNAIL, Wornil. The larva of the cowfly Tabanus (oestrus bovis), growing under the skin of the back of cattle. WORRET. To worry in small matters, teaze. WOTSHED (N), Wetshod, Wetshoed. "For weetshoed thei gone." Piers Plowman. WRACK. " Mind, you'll stan' the wrack o't ;" "You will stand the consequences." WRAG. To scold to accuse with bitter words. "Of them the ge hine wre[accentgath." -Luke xxiii. 14. WRANCH. A tool, a spanner, as a screw-wranch for the turning of square-headed screws in machines. WRIDE. A bush of many stems from one root as, a wride of hazel or ash or the family of stalks growing from one grain. "Thurh ...