Regional words, terms and phrases.

[penntor]

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

Lades?
Similar vein, what is an oakway

 

[JSmith]

How about the scuvvin for shovelling the beet or swedes or whatever

 

[JWL]

Slinket for long thin fields

 

[Werzle]

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 ,

Fetch me an interpreter Mow headlands then block out the longest runs , back swathe is mowed last so if you smash the mower atleast the fields 99% done. Never used words like byres or shippons here, an area outside a cattle yard is a plot, most call it a fold.

 

[Werzle]

Slinket for long thin fields

sling. Reens for dips in fields that flood, water runs along them towards the ditches

 

[An Gof]

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

Lades?
Similar vein, what is an oakway

Us av oakways yer

 

[An Gof]

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

Lades?
Similar vein, what is an oakway

Do e av any Dashels?

 

[primmiemoo]

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

Lades?
Similar vein, what is an oakway

Lades, yu.

 

[goodevans]

pikes.

That could also be the thieves who take the sheep

 

[primmiemoo]

Us av oakways yer

What are oakways, pls?

 

[goodevans]

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

Used to be gormers when I was a kid or thripples

 

[goodevans]

I think I am going to enjoy this thread ,thankyou @Jockers84

 

[Will 1594]

Lades, yu.

Gormers

 

[Will 1594]

Fetch me an interpreter Mow headlands then block out the longest runs , back swathe is mowed last so if you smash the mower atleast the fields 99% done. Never used words like byres or shippons here, an area outside a cattle yard is a plot, most call it a fold.

Est thi loppy air, .. Ez thi guffed tha broggs that mitch ,tha britches arse ist ing in hoot .
what do you call it when its raining heavy , ,it "w"fair siling it down t neet and was fair nithered ,now sat in frun T fire and fair mafted now ,soon be morking ,

 

[goodevans]

I can remember an old neighbour glatting up a hedge with trouse (beat that)

 

[puppet]

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

Lowland Scotland the same

 

[Mickstup]

Theaves round here are female lambs kept for breeding, hacker used for hedging, and a beetle for hitting the stakes in. Breakfast, bait, dinner, tea, anything else is just uncivilised. always used a tundish for filling diesel tanks.

 

[casper74]

I'd never heard of "provvin" before I started going to the wild west cattle buying!!!!

 

[Werzle]

I can remember an old neighbour glatting up a hedge with trouse (beat that)

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

 

[thorpe]

I'd never heard of "provvin" before I started going to the wild west cattle buying!!!!

whats that?