Glossary: Sabs - Snecks
Sabs—sobs | Shored—threatened loudly |
Sabbing—sobbing | Screech—to scream |
Sae—so | Screeching—screaming |
Safs!—save us! | Shouther—shoulder |
Saft—soft | Sic, siccan—such |
Sa'r, saur—a smell, a savour | Sicker—sure |
Sair—sore | Siller—money, silver |
Sairt, seert—served | Simmer—summer |
San-blin—sand-blind, short-sighted | Sin—the sun |
Sal—shall | Sinny—sunny |
Sauted—salted | Sinty—seventy |
Saul—soul | Sinfu'—sinful |
Saws and barrels—weavers' machines | Skelf—shelf |
Sawing-timber—a technical term in the business of the currier | Skelpet—beaten |
Sax—six | Skelpin—beating |
Saxty—sixty | skift—skipped |
Saxpence—sixpence | Skiffin—skipping |
Scant—scarce | Skillie—skilful |
Scances—scans | Skirl—to scream shrilly |
Scart—to scratch | Skirling—screaming shrilly |
Scarting—scratching | Skirls—wild screams |
Scaul, scauld—to scold | Skeigh—spirited |
Scawling—scolding | Skinklin, skinklan—sparkling and shining |
Scat—scabbed | Skit—a blow |
Scone, scones—thin soft flour cakes | Sklate—slate |
Scower—to clean, to scrub | Skrewt—screwed |
Scoury, scowery—shabby | Skyle—to scatter |
Scounrel—scoundrel | Skytchers—skaters, skates |
Scrieve—to glide swiftly | Slairy'd—bedaubed, slabbered |
Scunner—to feel disgust | Slaw—slow |
Sel'—self | Slee—sly |
Seeping—soaking | Sleekit—glossy |
Seeps—soaks | Sled—slade |
Sen—send | Sleepit, sleepet—slept |
Set—sect, sort | Sma'—small |
Shaw—a small wood in a hollow place | Smo'ering—smothering |
Shoon—shoes | Snaw, sna'—snow |
Shanket—departed | Snawy—snowy |
Shoelin—shuffling | Sna-bas—snow-balls |
Shoolfu'—shovelful | Snecks—latches |