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 WEST CORNWALL QLOSSART. S^ Xittixig, part, stealing. '^The famous tiUing case.'* Tregellas. Kitty-bags, rags wrapped round labourers' legs to keep off the wet, or straw bands. Kityy acff, cracked ; harebrained. Xnack, a knock, v. to stop. up." Xnapy 'Uhe top or brow of a hilL*' T. a Couch. Xnawed, v, imp, knew. Znitster, a woman who knits. Lace, a rood or perch; a land measure. Laoe, «. to flog. A lacing is a flogging. Ladies' trees, small branches of dried seaweed, hung up in chim- neys to protect the house from fixe. Xafts, lathes. Lag, a dirty mess on the bottom ' of a dress. ** I hate a lag as much as any one." v. to dn^le in the mud. Lagen, v. walking in the water with naked feet F. W. P. Laggen, v, to splash in the water: applied to flsh, also to children playing in the sea without shoes or stockings. £. v., Mousdiole. Laister, the yellow water iris. Lake, a portion of a bay, as Qwayas lake, Penzance. '*At Lostwithiel a brook is called a lake.'* J.W. Xiaauny, a kid ; sometimes made into a pie called *' lammy pie." Lampered, mottled. '' Lampered . all over." T. Q. Couch. Land-yard, two staves, or 18ft., are a land-yard^ and 160 land-
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 * yarde an acre.

Lanthom-flsh, a smooth sole. Lap, V. to beat Garland. Lap, anything disagreeable to eat or drmk. ''I don't like such cold lap.^ Lappior, a dancer. Halliwell, Polwhele. Lappy, V. to lap. Lash, V. to pour. ''A lash of rain " is a torrent of rain. '* To Uuh in pieces" is to break in pieces. Lasher^ a large thing. '^This fish is a {flwAer." Lasking, a word used by the Cornish fishermen when nearing a point They say *' Keep the boat laekingf^ i. e. steer the boat so that she may go near the point. P. W. P. lAiaking^ keep near shore ; a term used by fish- ermen. B. y., Mousehole. Lattice, tin-plate. Latteen, Lost- withiel, J. W. Lattice-ware, tin-plate ware. ''A lattice cup/' a tin cup. Launder, a trougb for washing tin ; a gutter for carrying off the water from the roofis of houses. Lawn, Lawen, a large, open mine-working in the back of a lode left in a'dangerous state. Towednack, T. C. Lawrence, the patron saint of idlers. '* He's as lazy as LaW" rence.** ** One would think that Lawrence had got hold of him" {pron. La'rence). Layer, a winnowing sheet. Leaf ont, slightly insane. *' Like Crocker, a isaf om<." Leaping- stocky a horse-block. Leary, adj. hungry; weak. "Empty," J. W. "Lairy," CoucIl Lease, v. to pick stones from the D