Regional words, terms and phrases.

[Ffermer Bach]

I have heard someone call a dutch harrow a scrubber too

 

[JSmith]

I thought a Pike was a "pitch fork"

Pikle here too

 

[Tubbylew]

I can remember grandad filling glatts with browse cut off with the hedge bill, he would go at it like a madman. Usually in poorly fenced fields he wanted to graze with ewes and lambs. Breakfast , bait, dinner and tea here. Supper and lunch are for posh folk

Very often used to go with grandad to mend glats with a hedge bill and pike, found his drashing hook in the shed the other day, not certain the handle will last much longer in it now though.

 

[Scholsey]

Troff or trow (spelt phonetically to avoid confusion) I’m a troff (trough) man. Some people would throw manger into the mix but to me a manger is different to a troff.

 

[Bluetooth]

I used to work with some Lincolnshire lads who used a short,thick steel bar, pointed at one end and with the middle bit forged square for knocking stakes into the ground. They referred to it as a Gablick. Does anyone else recognise this?

We have 3 or 4 about 4ft long pointed one end flattened at the other. I've never seen the spelling but we pronounce it as if its spelt gayblick

 

[Lili]

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

Twndis is Welsh for funnel

 

[Cowslip]

Theaves, gimmers, shearlings, I'm from Kent where they are known as tegs!

 

[Lincs Lass]

I used to work with some Lincolnshire lads who used a short,thick steel bar, pointed at one end and with the middle bit forged square for knocking stakes into the ground. They referred to it as a Gablick. Does anyone else recognise this?

Yes ,the farm I started on had one , a point to make a starter hole,the square in the middle to hammer the post in and the other end was like a jaw to prize nails out,sodding heavy but for knocking in 2 inch net steaks,it was brilliant.
No wonder why I've got broad shoulders

 

[spanners and hammers]

yes i got a gablick harder work now i older

 

[spanners and hammers]

dockie whats called lunch round here

 

[yellowbelly]

I used to work with some Lincolnshire lads who used a short,thick steel bar, pointed at one end and with the middle bit forged square for knocking stakes into the ground. They referred to it as a Gablick. Does anyone else recognise this?

It's a gablet here

 

[Treecreeper]

Do e av any Dashels?

Seem to be able to grow any amount round ere.

 

[Werzle]

Theaves, gimmers, shearlings, I'm from Kent where they are known as tegs!

I was brought up to call them tegs too. Animals were fed (concerntrates) cake in trows . We still say silorater instead of forager. So and so's on, i can hear the silorater barking or singing out in the distance!

 

[kfpben]

Always tro rather than trough in my part of Hampshire. Shrammed means really cold, fogger is farm foreman.
Animals aren’t lying down in the straw they’re ‘led down’.
Somewhen and anywhen.
Does anyone else ‘cowp’ ewes over to assist a lambing? ie. turn them over. I don’t know where I got it from. It could be local, or from when I lived in Scotland. Genuinely can’t remember.

 

[LCF1]

Father always called the time of day between the sun setting and it being dark as ‘getting dimpsey’

Said that in front of some people who had heard that from their local neighbours and wet themselves laughing as they thought he had made it up [emoji23]

 

[Treecreeper]

Thres no split or tuff in that poster.
Im still not sure when a split becomes a tuff or vice versa

A bread split is a single portion, a tuff can be cut into portions, not necessarily tho in my case.

 

[An Gof]

A bread split is a single portion, a tuff can be cut into portions, not necessarily tho in my case.

In this area a tuff was the same size as a split. Split is probably the more traditional Cornish name. However my maternal Grandfather was a master baker and always called what he made Tuffs. I think it may be that fact that we are close to the Tamar Valley and could be a bit of Devon influence. But any influence from Devon stopped there ...... us always put the cream on top in the proper way

 

[penntor]

Do e av any Dashels

Plenty thanks, used to spend a lot of time topping them, now just get them sprayed, 12 acres at a time ( contractors sprayer tank full).

Oakway - bay in hay shed, e.g. one oakway left to fill means one bay left to fill.
Devon shovel is also often referred to in different circles as a miners shovel as same design was used by miners in Devon and Cornwall.

On the bread debate I see Stotty is included but under Yorkshire, I knew it from Geordie Land, Newcastle.

 

[An Gof]

Do e av any Dashels

Plenty thanks, used to spend a lot of time topping them, now just get them sprayed, 12 acres at a time ( contractors sprayer tank full).

Oakway - bay in hay shed, e.g. one oakway left to fill means one bay left to fill.
Devon shovel is also often referred to in different circles as a miners shovel as same design was used by miners in Devon and Cornwall.

On the bread debate I see Stotty is included but under Yorkshire, I knew it from Geordie Land, Newcastle.

Yer boy, tis a Cornish Shovel not a Debn shovel
Tis Cornish miners that is famous the world over

 

[penntor]

But any influence from Devon stopped there ...... us always put the cream on top in the proper way

Hate to admit it but so do I even although I am Devonshire born and bred but again not far from the Tamar Valley and I believe my grandmothers were born in Calstock, we all have our cross to bear.