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Playful Poems by Unknown
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{150d} Skirl, sound shrill.
{147d} Slaps, breaks in walls or hedges; also narrow passes.
{149b} Smoored, smothered.
{151j} Spean, wean.
{32} Spear-hawk, sparrow-hawk. From the root spar, to quiver or
flutter, comes the name of "sparrow" and a part of the name
"sparrow-hawk."
{94e} Summerhall, Stubbs, in the "Anatomy of Abuses," speaking of
the maypole, tells how villagers, when they have reared it up, "with
handkerchiefs and flags streaming on the top, they strew the ground
about, bind green boughs about it, set up summerhalls, bowers, and
arbours hard by it, and then fall they to banquet and feast, and
leap and dance about it."
{148d} Swats, new ale, wort. First English, swate.

{88c} Teen, vexation, grief.
{152b} Tint, lost.
{150c} Towsie tyke, a large rough cur.
{92a} Tynsall, loss.

{147c} Unco', uncouth, more than was known usually.

{151i} Wally, walie thriving. First English, waelig.
{91c} Warsill, wrestle.
{150b} Winnock-bunker, the window seat.
{93d} Woned, dwelt.
{17} Wottest, knowest.
{88a} Woxen, grown.

{93a} Yconned, taught.
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