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Rh SHOWL.—A shovel, to shovel. "Showl up the whate into a hape."

SHRAMMED.—Benumbed with cold. "Let I come to the vire, I be so shrammed a bidin' zo long in the kert."

SHROUDED.—A tree is said to be shrouded when branches are lopped off it as it stands.

SHROVIN'.—Children go round the principal houses in the village on Shrove Tuesday singing the rhyme noted in the introduction with other local rhymes.

SHUCK and SHUG.—Repeated several times as a call for pigs to come and be fed.

SHUCK-DOWN.—A hastily made up bed.

SHUMMED, or SHAAYMED, or SHEAMED.—Ashamed.

SHUM-VAAYCED.—Looking awkwardly shy.

SHUT, or SHET.—To get shut of a person or thing is to be well rid thereof. "A went on a-tellin' I zuch stupid things as I was glad to get shut on 'in."

SHUT IN.—Close. "The daays shuts in arly at this time o' year."

SHUVVY-HAWLE.—A boys' game at marbles. A small hole is made in the ground and marbles are pushed in turn with the side of the first finger, these are won by the player pushing them into the "shuvvy-hawle"

SHY.—To "plaay shy" or to "vight shy" is to avoid.

SKELLIN'.—A lean-to shed from a main building or a wall, sometimes called also.

SKERLUT.—Scarlet.

SKESS.—Scarce. "Patridges be oncommon skess a cause o' the wet bradin' ze-a-zon."

SKEWT, or SKEWT-WISE.-Aslant, crossing. "Them vloor-boords be led down all skewt, e' maunt naail 'um to the jists like that ther."

SKIMMER.—A cook's ladle for removing surface matter from anything boiling. "Praay, mother, gie I zome dinner, Else I'll knock 'e down wi' the skimmur.'" 5em