Report and Transactions (Volume 7)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... Middleton, iii. 237, iv. 382; Peele's Works, i. 127; Sir Thomas More, p. 37; Boke of Curtasye, p. 4; Chester Plays, ii. 87; Townslcy Myst. p. 106. Also to hew stones. Char-woman, a woman hired by the day for miscellaneous work. Chewebs. Chares or tasks' Devon. chewkee-ring. To assist servants. Wilts. Choorv. To work or char. Somerset. Grose-- Char, Cheure. A particular business or task. 'That char is charred, that job is done;' 'I have a little char for you.' North. Pronounced in Wilts a cheure cheury, or Chewree. To assist servants, and occasionally to supply their place in the most servile work of the house. 35. Bray-- The snow.... making the roads so cledgcylike. i. 32. Clibby = Adhesive, is used about Ashburton. Clidgy = Adhesive, is used about Torquay. Baird-- An' legs and vingers ditched. ii. 16. Bowring-- Of words purely local, such as... claggy... a list of nearly a thousand might be collected. Trans. Devon Assoc., 1866, p. 35. Palmer--claggy. Glutinous; sticky. Bock-- Cladgy. Close; cloggy; glutinous; waxy. Be them taties cladgyt p. 6. Clitch. To stick to. They do ditch to one another. p. 3. Clitchy. Sticky. Clibby. Sticky. Pulman-- Clitch. To stick together; to make adhere. Cloggy. The roads are said to be cloggy when covered with adhesive mud. Moore--cladgy. Waxy. 'The potatoes are cladgy.' Clib and Clibby are used about Looe. W. P. Couch-- Clidgy. A gelatinous sticky consistence in bread, confectionary, &c. Clib. To stick or adhere. Clibby. Sticky; adhesive. Daniel-- I'd cleb to nn around the nick Like lumput to a rook.--Pickings, p. 7. Clvhjij, an' gingerl.red, an' nets. =mits. W. P. Evenings, p. 32. Of the three luxuries mentioned by Mr. Daniel, Clidgi/, a cheap sweetmeat, which takes...