A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire (Volume 23) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... Ketch, a small vessel. Cf. Smyth, Sailor's Word-book, sub voc. 'The description of vessel navigating the Trent above Gainsburgh, is a flat bottomed boat, called a Trent boat or ketch.'--Stark's Hist. of Guinsburgh, 514. 'Sir John llotham.... dispatch'd a ketch to Captain Haddock, and other parliaments' ships abroad.'--Rushworth, Hist. Coll. Part III., vel.-ii. p. 264. Ketlock, charlock, wild mustard; Sinapis arvensis. In the neighbourhood of Yealand Conyers in North Lancashire thoso plants aro also called Ketlocks; m the Valley of Saint John, near Keswick, they bear tho namo of Kayles. Ketlocking, gathering ketlocks. Kettlebottoms, an enclosure in tho parish of Wintcringham. Ketton, Kirton-in-Lindsey. To be sent to Ketton formerly moant to be sont to the prison there. Ketty, adj. soft, peaty soil. 'A man there dwelt nigh Caistor town, 5000 acres he had; On tho hill wor' a bit, by the river some more, Eotten and ketty and bad.' Rustic Verses, Sep. 1872. Kevassing, pres. part running about in an aimless way. Kewse, Konsh, Konshle, the hemlock; or more particularly the driod stems thereef. Cf. Mid. Eng. fcex, hexes. Soo below. Kex, the hemlock. 'Miserly and as dry as a kix.'--Bernard, Terence, 207. Key, a tuning-fork. Keys, s. pi. seed-vessels of the ash. Kibble, v. to put the cord of a halter into a horse's mouth by way of bit. Kicking about, existing in great profusion. 'When I went ower to Rotterdam, bacca was that cheap, it was kickin' aboot i' th' streets an' squealin' oot to bo smookt.' Kid, a faggot, a fascine. A bundle of sticks used for staithing, or repairing the slopes of a river. 'I seed him mellin' doon hids at th' staithe end.'--Stamford Mercury, Aug. 7, 1874. 'Burned nothing but one stack of kids at the back of Mr Wilbraham's...