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 56 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. Stinks -aloud, phr, to smell strongly. ''This book vUnks aloud of tobacoo." • Stir^t-coose, a bustling woman; a busy-body. Btirrage, a stir. '<What a stivrage (sometimes tiurrage) there was in a few minutes.'' Stodge, porridge. " As thick as $todge.y A fog is sometimes said to be *' as thicK as stodge,^* StoitiiLgy the leaping of fish ; or the colour they impart to the surface. Stompses, Stamps (always plural), perpendicular wood or iron bars lor ciTLshing tin ore to powder. They beat alternately, and are worked either by water or steam. ''Working away like a stompses,^ Stope4i-baok, a mining operation. A stepform in a rock. Tregellas. Stonnd, a fit, v. (p, p,) stunned by a blow or fall. St rake, Straky, v. to steal marbles. Strain, V, to slam. " Don't sfram the doors so.** To run yiolently against a person ; to strike. ' ' I ran $tram up agen un.** " Told f^rom to un with a norse-whip, and I «(rammec2 to him.'' Blogan, T. 0. Stram-bang, Slam-bang, ado, quickly. Stramming, adj. big ; monstrous. "A stramming big lie.** A notorious falsehood is some- times called a «^rammer. "That's a strammer if ever there was one." Straw-mot, a straw. Stream works (pron. strame), tin works in valleys. The tin pebbles being placed in heaps, a stream of water is turned on to carry off the refuse. " A ^rame d' rain," heavy rain. Stream, v, to dip clothes in blue- ing water. Streaming pot, a watering pot. Strike, a Winchester bushel ; the third of a Cornish one, which contained 24 gallons. Strike, v, to anoint as with ointment. Stroll, long roots of weeds ; couch grass; twitch grass. H. E.O. Stroil, strength; ability. "He has no more stroil than a child." Polwhele. Strop, a piece of twine or rope. Stroth (like both), a hurry or fuss. "Whafs all the stroth about ? " Strother, a person always in a ftiss or hurry. Strothing, part, hurrying. " She went strothing down the street.*' Stroping, said he did it all, and he was stroping about; but, in fact, he did very little. St Just. T. 0. Strove. *' He drove me down to a Ue." • Strow, Strawl, a confusion ; a litter. "The ketchen war in such a strow." " Terribly strow over there," meaning a row or disturbance. Ludgvan. " There was a bit of a strcv; (row, noise, fight) outside the door." Sennen. T. 0. (Strow pron. like how.) Stmb, V. to rob birds' nests ; to strip. " The boys quite struhhed the trees." Strnnty, adj. misty; foggy. " Warm strunty weather." St. Tibb's-Eye, a day neither before nor after Christinas. "Ill do et next St. TihVs ere." Stnbberd, Stnbbet, an apple peculiar to Cornwall.
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