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JSAST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. 105 Tnickle> to trundle. Tmffy the sea-trout or bull-trout. Tub, the sappharine gurnet fish, Trigla hirundo. Tabbut, short aud thick. The tub-fish is the shortest and thickest of its kind. Tnokf an operation in seine fishing described in Couch's Fishes of Brit. Islands f iy. 91. Tiirf-tie» the bed on which the turf-rick is piled (bed-^^). Tnsh, a tooth. Tat work. " By the lump : as when they undertake to perform a certain work at a fixed price, prove how it may.'*— Pbtob. Vn, aunt An address of familiar respect to an old woman, not im- plying relationship: Un Jinny." XTnole, an address of familiar respect to an old man, not implying relationship : ** UncU Jan.** XTnlnsty, unwieldy. XTnyamped, not added to or embellished. It is used in this sense in Ford's play, The Lady's Trial, I. i.— ** The newest news unvamped," XTprofe, a woman churched is uprased. Vady, damp. " Bishop Berkely, in his Farther Thoughts on Tar Water, p. 9, uses what appears to be the same word, fade, in the same sense." — Video, N, & Q,, VoL x. No. 266. Vamp, a short stocking ; the foot of a stocking. Yang. Vide Fang. Yare, Year, a suckling pig. Yeak, a whitlow. Carew says, in his account of John Size, the uncouth creature in the household of Sir William Beville : "In this sort he continued for diners yeeres, untill, (upon I know not what veake or unkindnesse), away he gets and abroad he rogues." — Survey of C Yenoook, fencock, the bird, water-rail. Yetter, a feather stripped of its vane, aU except the point, and used by children at a dame's school, to point out tiie letter or word they are studying. A corruption of fescue, Yinniady mouldy {Fynig), Qy. past participle of Fynigeariy to spoil ; corrupt; decay. Yisgy, a mattock. Vist, fist.