GALORE [guloa•r] sb. Plenty.

REEMER [ree•mur] sb. Anything very good. 'I wish you'd seen that catch I made forty year agoo, when we was playin' agin de Sussex party. Ah! that just was a reemer, I can tell ye!'

HANK [hangk], HINK [hingk] sb. A skein of silk or thread. So we say a man has a hank on another; or, he has him entangled in a skein or string.

WAUR [waur], WAURE, sb. Sea-wrack; a marine plant (Zostera marina), much used for manure. (See Oare.) Anglo-Saxon, war, waar. 'Alga, waar;' Corpus Glossary (8th century).

PLENTY [plent•i] sb. A plenty; enough. 'There, there, that's aplenty.'

WUT [wut] vb. Word of command to a cart-horse to stop.—East Kent.

PINNOCK [pin•uk] sb. A wooden drain through a gateway. (See Thurrock.)

WARP [waup] sb. Four things of any kind; as a warp of herrings.

STIPERS [stei•purs] sb. pl. The four poles at the sides of a bobbin-tug, which stand up two on each side, and keep the bobbins in their places.—East Kent.

CHEER [cheer] sb. Constantly used in N. Kent, in the phrase, 'What cheer, meät?' as a greeting; instead of 'How d'ye do, mate?' or 'How're ye getting on?'

CONYGARTHE [kun•igaath] sb. A rabbit warren. Lambarde, 1596.—'The Isle of Thanet, and those Easterne partes are the grayner; the Weald was the wood; Rumney Marsh is the meadow plot; the North downes towards the Thaymse be the conygarthe

CONYGARTHE [kun•igaath] sb. A rabbit warren. Lambarde, 1596.—'The Isle of Thanet, and those Easterne partes are the grayner; the Weald was the wood; Rumney Marsh is the meadow plot; the North downes towards the Thaymse be the conygarthe

PODDER-GRATTEN [pod•r-grot•n] sb. Podder-stubble; the stubble of beans, peas, &c. (See Grotten.)

PADDY [pad•i] adj. Worm-eaten.

HOVEL [hov•l] (1) vb. To carry on the business of a hoveler.

BRAUCH [brauch] sb. Rakings of straw.

CHEEGE [cheeg] sb. A frolic.

SHOTVER-MEN [shot•vur-men] sb. pl. The mackerel fishers at Dover; whose nets are called shot-nets. There is an old saying— 'A north-east wind in May Makes the shotver-men a prey,' The N.E. wind being considered favourable

ASPRAWL [usprau•l] adj. Gone wrong. 'The pig-trade's all asprawl now.'

STUD [stud] (1) sb. A stop; a prop; a support. The feet on which a trug-basket stands are called studs.

REASTY [ree•sti] adj. Rusty; rancid; rank. (See Rasty.)

PLAYSTOOL [plai•stool] sb. An old word which apparently meant a public recreation ground, though certainly lost as such now, yet the word is very common throughout Kent as the name of a field which was once parish property.

PATTERN [pat•rn] vb. To imitate. 'I shouldn't think of patterning my mistress.'

GADS [gadz] sb. pl. Rushes growing in marshy ground.

FLOAT [float] sb. A wooden frame, sloping outward, attached to the sides, head, or back, of a cart, enabling it to carry a larger load than would otherwise be possible.

AKERS [ai•kurz] sb. pl. Acorns.

CRAMP-WORD, sb. A word difficult to be understood. 'Our new parson, he's out of the sheeres, and he uses so many of these here cramp-words.'

RIPE [reip] sb. A bank; the sea shore, as 'Lydd Ripe.' In East Kent, the village of Ripple derives its name from the same Latin word, ripa.

SEA SNAIL [see snai•l] sb. A periwinkle.

YOKELET, sb. An old name in Kent for a little farm or manor.

SUM [sum] vb. To reckon; to cast up accounts; to learn arithmetic. So the French sommer.

TINE [tein] (2) vb. To shut; to fence.

TILL [til] adj. Tame; gentle.

LIEF-COUP [leef-koop] sb. An auction of household goods.

MELT [melt] sb. A measure of two bushels of coals.

PLENTY [plent•i] sb. A plenty; enough. 'There, there, that's aplenty.'

HARDHEWER [haa•dheur] sb. A stonemason. The word occurs in the articles for building Wye Bridge, 1637.

CAKE-BAIL. A tin or pan in which a cake is baked.

LASHHORSE [losh•us] sb. The third horse from the plough or wagon, or horse before a pinhorse in the team.—East Kent.

WORKISH [wurk•ish] adj. Bent upon work; industrious. 'He's a workish sort of a chap.'

BUSH [bush] sb. Used specially and particularly of the gooseberry bush. 'Them there bushes want pruning sadly.'

DAWTHERY [dau•dhur'i] adj. Shaky; tottery; trembling; feeble. Used commonly of old people—'He begins to get very dawthery.'

STRIKE-BAULK [streik-bauk] vb. To plough one furrow and leave another.

YAUGH [yau•l] adj. Dirty; nasty; filthy.

LEF-SILVER, sb. A composition paid in money by the tenants in the wealds of Kent, to their lord, for leave to plough and sow in time of pannage.

BRUCKLE [bruk•l] adj. Brittle.

KENTISH MAN, sb. A name given by the inhabitants of the Weald to persons who live in other parts of the county.

SHATTER [shat•ur] (2) sb. A sprinkling, generally of rain. 'We've had quite a nice little shatter of rain.' 'There'll be a middlin' shatter of hops.'

SIFTER [sift•ur] sb. A fire shovel.

ROUNDLE [rou•ndl] sb. Anything round; the part of a hop-oast where the fires are made, which is generally circular.