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74 ELL-RAAYKE.—The large sized lake used for raking hay left behind where "cocks" have been "pitched" into the  waggon.

ELLUM.—The elm tree.

ELLUMS.—Straw made ready for thatching.

ELNOR.—Eleanor.

EMMUT.—The ant.

EMMUT'S-HILL, or EMMUT-HUMP.—The ant's nest.

EMTT, or ENT.—To empty.

ENTIN.—Emptying.

"Two on 'e be to go entin dung-cart."

ERRWIG.— An ear-wig.

ERZELL.— Herself.

"She mad do't erzell, vor I wunt."

ET also YET.—Eat.

"A' wunt et nothin'." (He won't eat anything.)

ETHER.— The brushwood interwoven in 'forming a hedge.

The couplet is commonly quoted,

"Eldern staayke an' blackthorn ether, Maaykes a hedge vor years together."

ETTIN or YETTIN.— Eating. We have also in the preterit "etted" or "yetted

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