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 42 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. Peart, adj, smart ''He's a ftart feUow." PeaseiLy the plaial of peas. Peathy, adj. witty ; fall of quaint sayings. *' He's a peathy man." of gomption." Pedalmcan, the great cattle-fish. Scilly Isles, through H. B. 0. {pron, padilincan). Pednameny, a game played with pins: also called Pinny-Ninny. " Pedna - a - meaii^ heads - and - tails, a game of pins." B. Y. Pednan, small pieces of turf. Davy, Zennor. PednbokshrloBtwitheL Spoken hy fishermen in describing the peculiar model of a boat : is said to mean ' * cod's head and conger's tail." W. F. P. Pedn-borbas, cod's head. B. Y. Pedn-paly, the blue-tit. Peel, a pillow. Polwhele. Peendy, adj. tainted, applied to meat. Peeth, a welL Pellar, a conjuror; a cunning man, anplied to in supposed cases of bewitching. Pellas, Pillns, oats without husks. "I hove down some peilaB amonffst 'em to eat." Pil- oom, Avefim Ntida, Pellowe-bere, Pillow-bere, a pillow-case. "I were glad to put ma head 'pon the pellawe- here.** — Uncle Jan Trenoodle, Pend, V, to shut in. T. Q. Couch. Pendle, a pendulum. Peniqae, adj, firm ; precise ; neat. '* She's a penique little thing." '* You are looking quite penique.^^ Peijixiketyy ac^'. apt to take offence. Phrase. " I shall soon learn the phrases of the house " (the habits of the family). Polwhele. Pick-np, fish and potatoes mashed togedier and fried. PicronB-day, the miner*8 great holyday, supposed to be in honour of PicroiM, the discoverer of tin. Pie. '* Your hands are like pie " (very warm). Piecen (pron. peacen), t;. to patch ; to put in a piece. Pif^ a slight quarrel ; a tiff. Piggal, a pick-axe; a large hoe used for cutting tuxf. KWT-*®fi>» * dog-fish. Piggy-whidden, the smalleet or youngest pig, sometimes applied to the youngest child. '*My piggy-wnidden " (a white pig). Piggy - whidden - pie. " Some would die, and some did die, and of these we made piggy- whidden-pie.** Pig's-orowe. See Crowe. Pilcher, a pilchard. "Money without love is hke salt without pilchers/* ' ' Killed as dead as a salt pilcher," ''Like crame (cream) upon pilchers" or pOchaids. Pile, deeply involved. "In a pile of wrangle," t. e, deeply in- volved in the dispute. Polwhele. Piler. " A farm implement used to pound, or cut the beards from barley in winnowing." B. Y. PUf, light grass and roots raked together to be burnt. Pilf, Pilm, Pillem, light dust or fluff West Cornwall, «*Inthe east of Cornwall applied to dried mud,"' Polwhele. Piliers, places on the downs in- terrupting their smoothness ; tufts of long grass, rushes, &o., forming covers for hares.
 * Peathy old feUow with plenty