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Have you ever heard them say they are giving them a lot of trough...Iv heard mule men in the north east say that they are giving the lambs a little bit of trough.
Have you ever heard them say they are giving them a lot of trough...Iv heard mule men in the north east say that they are giving the lambs a little bit of trough.
No they never admit to that!Have you ever heard them say they are giving them a lot of trough...
We call them bings, got a long bing and short bing. The stone truff that runs along the bing in front of the cows is called a boozey. Shropshire Radnorshire borderHow is the passage in front of the cows, in an old fashioned cow-shed, or cowuss, known? I was brought up to call it a fotheram or fodderam, but when I moved to Staffordshire, it was known as a bing?
The divisions between the cows, we knew as bosgins or boskins , and the cow's chains were attached to a bootstake.
As far as I see it, a lot of these terms come from the times when we worked with 'osses. Round here a yockin' was the length of time (shift, if you like) that a pair of 'osses worked. They were changed half way through the morning, this was a good time for the men to have their bait. Big farms in Lincolnshire had outlying buildings where the second yockin' of 'osses waited (to save having to walk back to the main yard for them). The first yockin' went in and were fed in a crib.
On smaller farms, with no outlying buildings the 'osses had their bait from a nosebag.
It's all interconnected.
Big thistles you could hang wire on we call bore thistles or just bores, some call them scotch thistles. Not that i have thistles
I thought a tump was standard english!I recognised all the terms you’ve used, but then I too grew up in Herefordshire. Another one of my favourites from there is Tump, meaning a small hill. This includes mole tumps.
It missles here in Lincolnshire too.Another phrase I use is "misling" for light rain (almost mist), I have been told it is a Devon word (my great grandmother was from Bow in Devon)
Bell thistlesBig thistles you could hang wire on we call bore thistles or just bores, some call them scotch thistles. Not that i have thistles
Not that I'm aware off.Is your first meal of the day brakfast, with no e ? Had never heard it said as such till moved to Kent.
If your busy here your “roven out”Anyone else have to “drash on” when youm busy
No,never busy because it's always 'drekly', I think that's how you spell it.
A billhook ties the knots in a baler, it's called a gosshook around here.We crop sallys, it means pollarding willow trees. A hacker is a hedging tool but we would call a anything smaller than an axe a hacker. A scythe/billhook is a hedgebill here too.
Agreed, but it's also a hedging tool (one handed bladed chopping tool with a curve to one side of the blade).A billhook ties the knots in a baler