90 HAMPSHIRE GLOSSARY. Btooled [stoo'ld], adj, applied to a tree that has been reduced to a stump. * "A stocled stick" is used in opposition to maiden-timber, -which has never been touched with the axe. —Wise, New Forest, p. 183. Stop [stop], sh, * A stop of rabbits,' a nest of rabbits. — ^W. See Stock. Stonli [stoulz]. See Stool. Stout [stout], sb. a gad-fly. A.S. shit. — ^Wise, New Forest y p. 193. Also *Ak. and N. H. Stramots [stram*uts], sh, pL grassy places. Ex. ' The main of 'un tuflets and siramots ; ' most of the ground was hillocky and grassy. — Blackmore^s Cradock NoweU, i. p. 226. Strand [strand], sb, one of the twists of a line of horse-hair.^- Cooper. Com. Used of any rope. Strap-grass [strap-graas], $b, couch-grass. Tritieum repens. — ^W. Strig [strig], sb. the stalk of a plant. — J. Strip [strip], t;. a. to bark the oak tree. Stripping-bird [strip'in-burd], sb. the wry-neck (Junz iorquilla whose note is generally heard about str%pping4ime. — ^N. H. See Felling-bird. Stripping-time [strip'in-teim], sb. the period of spring, when the bark parts freely from the oak. — N. H. Strega [strogz], sb. pi. gaiters. — Wise, New Forest, p. 162. * Strogs,* says Air. Wise, * do not reach <^uite so high as the gaiters called vampletsJ* See Vamplets, Mokins. Strommeling [strom'uling], adj. awkward, ungainly, unruly. *Ak. Stab [stub], V. to take out young feathers from a plucked fowL — J. Stubby [stub'i], adj. short and thick, like the stump of a tree. — Cooper. Studding [stuk'ling], sb. a kind of mince-pie made of minced beef, caraway seeds, and apples, always served at the election dinners. — Winch. Sch. Ql. Stump [stump], a stoat. N. and Q. 1st Ser. x. 120. Stumps [stumpz], ^. pi. ^ To cock up his stumps^ to be conceited, Belf-sumcient, or refractory. Ex. ' Twas that made 'un oock up his stumps so.* — ^N. H. Stwon-dead [stwoan ded], adj. stone-dead, dead as a stone. *Ak. Stwonen [stwoan-un], adj. made of stone. *Ak. Suant [seu'unt], adj. kindly, even, regular. — Lisle. Pliable. — N. H. ^Ak. gives the forms aewent^ shewent, and stoity. See Sewent. Sugg [suog], ifiterj. used to invite pigs to come and eat; ^sugg! Bugg I • — F. M. See Chug. Sugg-up [sug up], v. a. to face a bank with damp turf ; to revH it
