The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

728 PROVINCIALISMS.
SPENSER. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, and SHAKESPEARE, The latter says, in
the Winter's Tale, " Every tod yields a pound and one odd shilling." This
was a great price at that time, if the tod then weighed only 28 lbs.; and
again, in the same play, "Every eleventh weather tods." This would be
only about 2! lbs. for each sheep, if the tod was then of the same weight as
at present.
Toddle -The first attempts of a child to walk alone.
Toft-stead.-A piece of ground on which a house has stood. DANISHr, tofte.
Tom-tailor. —The insect otherwise called c" Daddy-long-legs."
Tom-tit.-The wren, or titmouse.
Tongue-tied.-Silent. -SKELTON.
Tooting.-Prying, peeping. —SKELTON. CHAUCER uses toteth for looketh. To
toot was also used formerly as meaning to blow a horn.
Top-up.-To finish anything or business.
Toss-pot.-A drunkard. Used by FULLER.
Tot (a).-A small drinking-vessel.
Tottering. —" I've had a tottering time of it," —dazerous sickness, —perhaps a
torturing time.
Tramp (a). —An itinerant beggar, or simply to walk; he tramped the whole
distance.
Translator (a).-A cobbler or mender of shoes; now very rarely used.
Trapassing.-Wandering; vagabondising.
Trapes. —A dirty, untidy woman.
Traveller's-joy.-The shrub, Clematis Vitalba.
Tray (a).-A moveable piece of fence or hurdle.
Trice, or Trise (to). —" Trice it up;" lift it up; raise it un.-A.S.
Trig.-Neat, trim.
Truck (a).-A carriage on very low wheels for heavy burthens.
Tumbrel (a). —An open wooden or wattled box, used to feed cattle from in crew
yards during the winter. The old ducking-stool for scolds was also called
the tumbrel, or trebuccket, or cucking-stool, so called by INGULPHaUS; the
Latin name was tumbrellumn. COWELL.
Tup (a).-A ram.-See NARES, p. 834.
Tussel, or Tuzzel. —A contest, either of argument or strength.
Tussock (a).-A matted mass of coarse, long grass. "A tuft of any kind."NARES.
Tut (a). —A hobgoblin or sprite, mostly called Tom-tut.
Twang!-A rude exclamation, when a person thinks another utters an untruth.
Twig (to).-" I twigged him," I found him out, or understood him.
Twill.-The thread upon a spool. See Spool.
Twilt.-A quilted cover for a bed.
Twist.-" He has a good twist;" a good appetite.
Twitch (to).-To snatch or twuist suddenly from another.
Twitch (a).-An instrument by which a vicious horse is held by the nose.
Twitter (to).-To tremble with fear or expectation. —RAY.
Twyke. -The twitch-grass.
U.
Underhanded. —Having too little help. It also means undersized; 6" a little,
underlhanded fellow;" and it also means an uncandicd, close, unsatisfactory
mode of doing business; "it was a mean, underhand concern."
Under-lout.-An inferior servant.
Ungain, Unheppen.-The reverse of gain and lheppen, which see.