Cluttered. (1) 'Caddled,' over-burdened with work and worry.—N. & S.W.
'"Cluttered up" means in a litter, surrounded with too many things to do at once.'—Jefferies, Field and Hedgerow, p. 189.
*(2) Brow-beaten. Said to have been used at Warminster formerly.
Cluttersome. See Clattersome.
Cluttery. Showery and gusty.—S.W.
*Clyders. Galium Aparine, L., Goosegrass.—S.W.
*Clyten. *(1) n. An unhealthy appearance, particularly in children (A.B.C.).—N.W., obsolete. *(2) n. An unhealthy child (C.).—N.W., obsolete.
*Clytenish. adj. Unhealthy-looking, pale, sickly (A.B.C.H.Wr.).—N.W., obsolete.
Clytes. See Clites.
*Coath. Sheep-rot (D.S.).—N. & S.W.
Cobbler's-knock. 'To do the cobbler's knock,' to slide on one foot, tapping the ice meanwhile with the other.—S.W.
*Cob-nut. A game played by children with nuts (A.B.).—S.W.
Cockagee, Cockygee (g hard). A kind of small hard sour cider apple. Ir. cac a' gheidh, goose-dung, from its greenish-yellow colour (see N.E.D., s.v. Coccagee).—S.W. (Deverill, &c.)
Cocking-fork. A large hay-fork, used for carrying hay from the cock into the summer-rick.—S.W.
*Cocking-poles. Poles used for the same purpose.—N.W.
Cockles. Seed-heads of Arctium Lappa, L., Burdock.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard).
Cock's Egg. The small eggs sometimes first laid by pullets.—N. & S.W.
Cock-shot. A cock-shy: used by boys about Marlborough and elsewhere. 'I say, there's a skug [squirrel]—let's have a cock-shot at him with your squailer.'—N. & S.W.
*Cock's-neckling. 'To come down cock's-neckling,' to fall head foremost (H.Wr.).—Obsolete.
Cock's-nests. The nests so often built and then deserted by the wren, without any apparent cause.—N.W.
*Cock-sqwoilin. Throwing at cocks at Shrovetide (A.Wr.). See Squail.—N.W., obsolete.
'1755. Paid expenses at the Angel at a meeting when the By Law was made to prevent Throwing at Cocks, 0.10.6.'—Records of Chippenham, p. 244.
Cocky-warny. The game of leap-frog.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
*Cod-apple. A wild apple (Wilts Arch. Mag. xiv. 177).
Codlins-and-cream. Epilobium hirsutum, L., Great Hairy Willow-herb; from its smell when crushed in the hand. Cf. Sugar-Codlins.—S.W.
*Coglers. The hooks, with cogged rack-work for lifting or lowering, by which pots and kettles were formerly hung over open fireplaces. Now superseded by Hanglers.—N.W., obsolete.
Colley. (1) A collar.—N. & S.W. *(2) Soot or grime from a pot or kettle (A.B.). Compare:—
'Brief as the lightning in the collied night.'—Midsummer Night's Dream.
'Thou hast not collied thy face enough.'—Jonson's Poetaster.
Colley-maker. A saddler. See Colley (1).—N. & S.W.
Colley-strawker. A milker or 'cow-stroker.'—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Colt's-tail. A kind of cloud said to portend rain.—N.W.
'The colt's tail is a cloud with a bushy appearance like a ragged fringe, and portends rain.'—Great Estate, ch. viii.
*Comb, Coom. (1) n. The lower ledge of a window (Kennett's Paroch. Antiq.). (2) n. Grease from an axle-box, soot, dirt, &c. Koomb (S.).—S.W.
Comb-and-Brush. Dipsacus sylvestris, L., Wild Teasel.—S.W.
Combe, Coombe. (1) The wooded side of a hill (D.); used occasionally in this sense in both Wilts and Dorset.—N. & S.W. (2) A narrow valley or hollow in a hillside. This is the proper meaning.—N. & S.W. Used of a narrow valley in the woodlands in Gamekeeper at Home, ch. i.
Come of. To get the better of, to grow out of. 'How weak that child is about the knees, Sally!' 'Oh, he'll come o' that all right, Miss, as he do grow bigger.'—N. & S.W.
Come to land. Of intermittent springs, to rise to the surface and begin to flow (Agric. of Wilts, ch. xii).—S.W.
Comical. (1) Queer-tempered. 'Her's a comical 'ooman.'—N. & S.W. (2) Out of health. 'I've bin uncommon comical to-year.'—N. & S.W. (3) Cracky, queer. 'He's sort o' comical in his head, bless 'ee.'—N. & S.W. 'A cow he's a comical thing to feed; bin he don't take care he's very like to choke hisself.'—N.W. (Marlborough.) It should be noted that Marlborough folk are traditionally reputed to call everything he but a bull, and that they always call she!
Coney-burry. A rabbit's hole.—S.W. (Amesbury.)
Coniger, Conigre. This old word, originally meaning a rabbit-warren, occurs frequently in Wilts (as at Trowbridge) as the name of a meadow, piece of ground, street, &c. See Great Estate, note to ch. ix.
Conker-berries. See Canker-berries.
Conks, Conkers (i.e. conquerors). (1) A boy's game, played with horse-chestnuts strung on cord, the players taking it in turn to strike at their opponent's conk, in order to crack and disable it.—N.W. (Marlborough.) (2) Hence, the fruit of Aesculus Hippocastanum, L., Horse-chestnut.—N.W.
Coob. A hen-coop (H.): invariably so pronounced.—N. & S.W.
Cooby. A snug corner. See Cubby-hole.—N. & S.W.
Coom. See Comb.
*Coombe-bottom. A valley in a hillside (Great Estate, ch. iv). See Combe.
Coom hedder. (A.S.). See Horses.
Coop! Coop! The usual call to cows, &c., to come in.—N. & S.W.
Coopy-house. A very small house or cottage (S.). See Cubby-hole.—S.W.
*Cooted. Cut slanting, sloped off, as the ends of the upper part of an oblong hay-rick (D.).
'Hayricks are usually made round; sometimes oblong with cooted ends, not gable ends.'—Agric. of Wilts.
Cord. 'A cord of plocks,' a pile of cleft wood, 8 ft. long and 4 ft. in girth and width (D.).—N.W.
Corn-baulk. See Baulk (1).
Corndrake. Crex pratensis, the Landrail; almost invariably so called about Warminster and in some parts of N. Wilts.—N. & S.W.
*Corn-grate. The Cornbrash formation (Agric. of Wilts, p. 164).
*Corn Grit. Quarrymen's term for one of the building stone beds of the Portland series (Britton's Beauties of Wilts, vol. iii).
*Corn Pop. Silene inflata, Sm., Bladder Campion.—N.W. (Enford.)
Corruptions. Some of these are curious, and perhaps worth recording, as Rainball, rainbow