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             GLOSSARY OF WILTSHIRE WORDS


                        Oxford
        HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY




                 A Glossary of Words

                     USED IN THE

                 COUNTY OF WILTSHIRE.

                          BY

                GEORGE EDWARD DARTNELL
                        AND THE
         REV. EDWARD HUNGERFORD GODDARD, M.A.

                        London:

       PUBLISHED FOR THE ENGLISH DIALECT SOCIETY
  BY HENRY FROWDE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE.
               AMEN CORNER, LONDON, E.C.

                         1893.

               [_All rights reserved._]




PREFACE


The following pages must not be considered as comprising an
exhaustive Glossary of our Wiltshire Folk-speech. The field is a
wide one, and though much has been accomplished much more still
remains to be done. None but those who have themselves attempted such
a task know how difficult it is to get together anything remotely
approaching a complete list of the dialect words used in a single
small parish, to say nothing of a large county, such as ours. Even
when the words themselves have been collected, the work is little
more than begun. Their range in time and place, their history and
etymology,