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A dictionary of the Kentish dialect and provincialisms in use in the county of Kent Volume 20, no. 2 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... name given to a broad shallow vessel of wood, wherein milk 1s set to cream or wort to cool. In the Boteler Inventory, we find: "In the milke house one brinestock, two dozen of trugs, ix. bowles, three milk kcelers, one charne and one table."--Memorials of Eastry, p. 228. "Half a butter-tub makes as good a keeler as anything." Keen, sb. A weasel. KEEP-All-ON, vb. To continue or persevere in doing something. "He kep-all-on actin' the silly." KEG-MEG keg-meg sb. A newsmonger; a gossip; a term generally applied to women. Kell kel sb. A kiln. KENTisH MAN, sb. A name given by the inhabitants of the Weald to persons who live in other parts of the county. Kept Going kep-goa-ing vb. Kept about (i.e., up and out of bed); continued to go to work. "He's not bin well for some time, but he's kep going until last Saddaday he was forced to give up." Kern kurn vb. To corn; produce corn. "There's plenty of good kerning land in that parish." Kettle-man ket-l-man sb. Lophius piscatorius, or seadevil. Keys keez sb. pl. Sycamore-seeds. "The sycamore is a quick-growing tree, but troublesome near a house, because the keys do get into the gutters so, and in between the stones in the stableyard." Kick-Up-Jenny kik-up-jhvi sb. A game played, formerly in every public-house, with ninepins (smaller than skittles) and a leaden ball which was fastened to a cord suspended from the ceiling, exactly over the centre pin; when skilfully handled the ball was swung from the extreme length of the cord, so as to bring down all the pins at once. Kidware kid-wair sb. Peas; beans, &c. KilK. kilk, Kinkle kingk-l sb. Charlock. Sinapis arvensis, the wild mustard. Kiln-brush kil-n-brush sb. A large kind of fagot, bound with two wiffs or wit...
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