raves, raids, lades, ladders,

[Sonoftheheir]

Here in Burnt Fen, West Suffolk -

Baulk is the grass edge of the field near the ditch.
Gauze is the short angled work.
Raves are the straw trailer extensions.
Molly is a funnel shaped metal thing for filling sacks.
Whipple tree was something to do with harrowing.
Docky is lunch.
Yon-end is the far end of the field.
Travellers are known as Didy coys.

And for some reason the front of the heap is in the back of the shed?

 

[John 1594]

Deepest, darkest cambrideshire, ie March and surrounding areas

short work...gore
dockey time...dinner time, usually 11am
yon end...far end of field
tater bulk....cone shaped metal hopper for filling hessian sacks
tramlines...wheelings
front of trailer...headboard
brink...the yard of twitch you have to leave round the edge of the field for cross compliance
buster...subsoiler
fosset spinner...fert spreader

 

[Rob Holmes]

Gormers here, but a friend calls them Thrippers

 

[Beckbury Ben]

Thripples
Rowing up
Piking ground
Baggin, lunch

 

[John 1594]

rhodins...reeds cut from a drainage ditch with a sycthe and used to insulate a potato clamp, or placed on top of "holler drains" (porus clay drainage pipes)

 

[Kevtherev]

Bale trailer extensions are ripples

A scarecrow is a mawkin

Small field is a slang

Cops and reins for ploughing

Forager is a Chopper

Ewe lambs are theaves

 

[JPB]

Cow shed is a shippen

Front of bale trailer is shelvings

Love in Yorkshire dales

 

[JPB]

Oh and rowing up

 

[stuart]

thripper

rake

short ground

 

[Old Boar]

Brilliant thread - I am really fascinated by all the different words, and am wondering how old some of them are. Lets hope they never die out. Thanks for this @jimmer.

 

[Kevtherev]

Pletching-hedgelaying

Strut-strainer

Pikle-pitchfork

 

[fingermouse]

Cheshire - not the posh bit
Gormers= on trailers
Row up-rowing up
cuttings= short work
Baggin=eating time
Owd- old
Mizzick= a bog/wet hole
Wooden hills= stairs
Fair clemmed-hungry

 

[stuart]

Cheshire - not the posh bit
Gormers= on trailers
Row up-rowing up
cuttings= short work
Baggin=eating time
Owd- old
Mizzick= a bog/wet hole
Wooden hills= stairs
Fair clemmed-hungry

i thought all of cheshire was posh

 

[fingermouse]

i thought all of cheshire was posh

Well I originate from nr Whitchurch too, but other side of the county line

 

[stuart]

Well I originate from nr Whitchurch too, but other side of the county line

oh you got a bit of Shropshire influence then

 

[fingermouse]

oh you got a bit of Shropshire influence then

AndWelsh but don't tell anyone .

 

[stuart]

AndWelsh but don't tell anyone .

you were stuck in the triangle i grew up 100 yards from the Cheshire border

 

[fingermouse]

you were stuck in the triangle i grew up 100 yards from the Cheshire border

Alas yes I was 23before I saw the bright lights of Chester or the dimmer ones of Wrexham,no turning back then fella

 

[DrWazzock]

Gormers = front and back gates of bale trailer.
Greedy boards = side extensions on grain trailer.
Gearings = short runs in field.
Farweltered = sheep (or person) stuck on it's back
Froglathered = sweating and exhausted with heat working on a hot day.
A pig in a poke = a difficult situation, not easy to solve.
Assock = something you kneel on in church.
Arsey facey = back to front
Cross oppled = crossed over (wrongly connected)
Ought = zero.
mawk = maggot
Plashing = laying a hedge
Gathing = feeding and bedding the cattle
Crew or Crewyard = cattle housing including straw yard.
Pissmire = wet boggy hole or wet muddy field
Blather = mud, Blathered up = caked in mud
Squaddy = muddy.
Gormerising = staring vacantly at something
Over yonder = over there
Trottles = sheep droppings
Ever readys = waterproof leggings that go individually on each leg, not joined at gusset!

 

[ridger]

Daisy root- stone, street- farm yard, swine- police, Pehle- to smoke a fag, drapper- potato planter