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Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series

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Par, cove; the word porth is never used by the natives of West Cornwall, nor does it ever occur in family names.

Peeth, a draw-well.

Piggal, a kind of large hoe used for cutting turf, &c.

Pilf, woolly dust.

Piljack, a poor scurvy fellow.

Piskey, a mischievous fairy that delights to lead people astray; also a greenish bug, found on blackberries.

Pitch-to, to set to work with good heart.

Plum, soft, light.

Porvan, a rush lamp wick.

Pruit! a word used for calling cows.

Pul, mire, mud.

Pulan, a small pool, such as is left by ebb tide.

Pul-cronack, a small toad-like fish, found in "pulans."

Qualk, a heavy fall.

Quilkan, a frog.

Quillet, a small field.

Reen, a steep hill side.

Rose, low lying level ground, moorland, &c.

Rulls, rolls of carded wool.

Sew (gone to), dried up.

Skaw, the elder tree.

Skaw-dower, fig wort.

Skedgewith, privet.

Small-people, fairies.

Soas, sose, forsooth.

Spanish Dumbledore, the cock-chaffer.

Spriggan, sprite, fairy.

Sprowl, life, energy.

Stroath, more haste than good speed.

Stroll, an untidy mess.

Talfat, a boarded floor, for a bed-place, over one end of a cottage.

Threshal, a flail.

Towsar, a large apron or wrapper.

Tubban, a clod of earth.

Tubble, a mattock.

Tummals, quantity.

Tungtavus, a tattling fool.

Tuntry, the pole by which oxen draw a wain, cart, &c.

Turn, a spinning wheel.

Uncle, a term of regard given to an old man.

Vean, little.

Vined, mouldy.

Visgey, a pick-axe.

Visnan, the sand launce.

Vow, a cavern or "fuggo."

Vug, a cavity in a lode or rock.

Widden, small.

Widdens, small fields.

Wisht, sad, like a person or thing ill-wisht.

Zawn (pro Sown), a cavern in a cliff.

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