A Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Furness (North Lancashire) (Paperback)

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. 1869 Excerpt: ...in Chaucer: "Why ne hadst thou put the capel in the lathe." Reves Tale. "Granarium, lathe."--Roy M.S. 17 c. xvii. "A lathe, apotheca, horreum."--Way in Prompt. Parv. ' Whyle t' fiddlers they're at wark i' t' leathe, An' thrang their fiddles tuning." John Stagg. Cumb. Ball. p. 199. Lea--a scythe Sw. lie Leace--to castigate Leak--to look Leat--late Ledder--leather Dan. lader It is used as a term of commendation in the following local rhyme: "That's mi lad 0' ledder When I kill mi cow thou sal hev t' bledder." Lee--a lie A.S. lyge Leemers--hazel nuts when ripe, separate easily from the husks, and are then called brown leemers Icel. lima, to cut away "Learner, Leemer, a nut that separates easily from the husk, as being fully ripe."--Jamieson. Leet--a light, as "day-Ieet;" to alight, as "I fell an' leet o' my heead." Leister--a fish spear Su. G. liuster "We walked to the river side above the bridge, where all our tenants were assembled with poles and spears, or rather 'leisters, ' for catching salmon." Her Majestv Queen Victoria's "Journal of our Life in the Highlands," p. 125. Letter i' t' cannel--a spark in the wick of a candle denotes that a letter is coming to the house. Lever--rather; from A.S. leof, dear, comparative, leofra. "What? schal I buy it on my fleisch so deere? Yet had I lever wedde no wyf to yere " Cant. Tales, 1. 575 Ley--lea "Ley, field after the crop is cut, clover ley, etc" F. J. Furnmall in Gloss. to "Hymns to the Virgin & Christ." "Bi a forest as y gan walke With-out a paleys in a leye." Hvmns to Virgin &= Christ, p. 95. Lick--to beat Lig--lie Icel. liggja Su. G. ligga A.S. licgan "That ere he ...