Regional words, terms and phrases.

[Will 1594]

east anglian phrase

Docky = lunch / mid morning break,

also Docky time & docky bag !

Why is it called a docky bag? Well, docky is an East Anglian word that means lunch, so it is a lunch bag. But the word and the object carry more than a flask of tea: farm laborer right through to the mid twentieth century had their pay docked if they took a lunch break. So the ‘docky bag’ is a complex reminder of social status and of human rights. The bag puts the agricultural workers of the fens into the long history of protest for better working conditions and fair pay.

i used to think it was an international phrase , until i left Cambridgeshire and got a few blank looks when i asked about stopping for docky

11,30 too ,was that some thing to do with resting hosses

 

[thorpe]

How many names are there for the runs up and down a field when the headland is encountered at an angle, so a triangle shaped piece is left? Scoots, Running work, Short work, etc I'm sure there are load more.
Same goes for headlands: end rigs, turn rows, outside breeds. In the US most seemed to call them the end rows, but that was mainly on corn/maize where they literally were rows

pikes.

 

[Will 1594]

Bait is a northern thing, oft spoken in Yorkshire

Or lowance Lowance time , Allowed time for bait , who still has old canvas army bag you hung on air cleaner and over bonnet on 5000

 

[primmiemoo]

That's a gimmer with us, remember I'm at the opposite end of the island though. Wonder if the "theaves" name originates with stealing lambs?

Well, gimmer is Norse ~

gimmer - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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And theave is ... well ~

Sheep terminology

Aye-up, I'm no sheep expert, but I thought I knew the basics. However it seems to me that different folks have different terms for different age sheep. I was talking to a chap about hoggs today and I got the impression he meant theaves. Then I remembered Dad talking about double theaves and...

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[thorpe]

Or lowance Lowance time , Allowed time for bait , who still has old canvas army bag you hung on air cleaner and over bonnet on 5000

didnt have a5000 hung mine on ac of the 35, not got the bag but we still have the 35.

 

[Werzle]

How many names are there for the runs up and down a field when the headland is encountered at an angle, so a triangle shaped piece is left? Scoots, Running work, Short work, etc I'm sure there are load more.
Same goes for headlands: end rigs, turn rows, outside breeds. In the US most seemed to call them the end rows, but that was mainly on corn/maize where they literally were rows

Butts

 

[Bill the Bass]

Twinters in the Lake District particularly with Herdwicks, as in lived through two winters.

 

[An Gof]

That's a "half yoking" up this way, cup of tea and biscuit mid morning, love it.

‘Tis called crib in this part of Cornwall. Down west sum of ‘em calls it croust

 

[ARW]

Or lowance Lowance time , Allowed time for bait , who still has old canvas army bag you hung on air cleaner and over bonnet on 5000

Lowance time I think would of been your allowance time
Dinner time here is 12.00
Tea time is the evening meal, no such thing as lunch

 

[Will 1594]

Butts

Garings , irish mate calls headlands Wineriggs ,
when doing a field , do you ,open it out , then Strike out , and do a breed or work in lands or a ratch , Up and back down field ,a round
cow house byre ,mistle ,what did you call passage with trough in front of cow house ,skelbeaaal. Whats a cuddy Or teeearfit , yat stowp ,

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Butts

I was just thinking, it's called working the butts out

 

[JWL]

In South Warwickshire/Oxfordshire it used to be trows that the sheep were fed in not troughs. An estate I was a studemt on called the 9am break lunch which caused me a problem when I was told in the 7am managers job delegation that I was to take some fertiliser to one of the tractor drivers after lunch. I was with the cowman walking some cows in when we spotted Morris waving his arms and jumping up and down across the valley when it dawned on us, the cowman wasn't local either, that lunchtime was actually our breakfast time!

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

here is a question, am I remembering right, when I can recall my grandfather talking about "cropping Sally trees", I have also never heard anyone else talking about using a "beetle" to knock in fence posts, or a "hacker" to split kindling wood.

I wonder whether Barley Ails is a local expression too? (Barley Awn)?

Used to talk about a stake Biddle for hedging used to be a one piece handle and head cut from a tree branch and trunk
And if you spent time in Herefordshire you will have used a tundish?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Used to talk about a stake Biddle for hedging used to be a one piece handle and head cut from a tree branch and trunk
And if you spent time in Herefordshire you will have used a tundish?

A what?

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

We've got dripples on our bale trailer what do others call them

 

[JWL]

Raves

 

[Ffermer Bach]

We've got dripples on our bale trailer what do others call them

I would say thripples

 

[penntor]

Bait is a northern thing, oft spoken in Yorkshire

Crib or croust down here. Also have heard the term beetle for a type of flat faced sledge hammer for knocking in fence posts.
How about yaws ( ewes) or what is a visky (type of tool) and what is the Dartmoor term of lear up north.

 

[JSmith]

Used to talk about a stake Biddle for hedging used to be a one piece handle and head cut from a tree branch and trunk
And if you spent time in Herefordshire you will have used a tundish?

Funnel for pouring fuel in the tank?? That’s what the old chap called it any way

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

A what?

Having ancestors round Herefordshire borders they always called the funnel used to fill the tractor a tundish
Was told it was proper Herefordshire speak