WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. 41 steps ending in an orrel or porch.** Couoh. Oimoe^ the sixteenth part of any property. Ontlajidery a foreigner. Out-window (pron. wender), a bay or bow window. OrerliuLged, p. p. as adj, strained; stretched. "What aver/anged notions you haye." Overgoney p. p, as adj over- powered; faint. F. 0. Oyerlook, to bewitch; overlooked; bewitched. Ovriiy the eaves of a house.
- Owes." Couch.
Paddle, an agricultural instru- ment; a small, sharp piece of iron with a long handle for cut- ting out the roots of weeds. Padgetypoo, a frog; a tadpole.
- Prenchmen with their wooden
shoes Eating snails andpadgetypooaJ* Unde Jan Trenoodh, PadgypoWy an eft; a lizard; the newt. Pair, a set of miners that work together in a gang. Pair of moyles (mules), usually about thirty, for carrymg tin. Palched, always ailing; half- cured; patched: applied to inva- HdSw ' ' A ipooT palched creature.** Pallaoe, a cellar for the bulking of nilchards: usually a square building with a pent house roof, endosing an open area or court. Ck>uch. Palsh, palsied. Towednack, T. C. PalshallalSy the diarrhoea. Pame, the palm of the hand. Pan-erook, an earthen pan. Pane, a parsnip. Pane-seedy parsnip-seed. Pank, V. to pant; to breathe hard. Panshion, a milk-pan. Pare, a field (proper noun), Padier. "He*s a pasJier^'* a clumsy workman. Ludgvan, T. 0. Pass, a slap; a beating. Pass. Quietus, they'll give him his pau some night or other." J., Koyal Institution of Com- waU. Passle (parcel), a great number.
- A bra* passle of people.**
Pasty, a meat and potatoe or fruit turnover. Patoh-hook, a bill-hook. Pattick, a merry fellow; a fooL Pattick, Paddick, a small pitcher. Paul's pitoher-day, St. Paul*s Eve (January 24th); a miner*s holyday. They set up a water- pitcher, which they pelt with stones imtil it is broken to pieces. They then buy a new one which they carry to a beer-shop and fill, and empty it imtil they get drunk. In Imraoombe the boys fill a pitcher with filth, and going about the streets throw it slily into people's houses. Pawn, a forfeit ^* Here*s &patDn, and a very pretty paton, and what shall the owner of this paum doP" Payse, Peice, v, to weigh. Paysen, Peizen, weights. PaysOT, Peizer, a man who weighs tin. Pea, the hard roe of a fish. Peach, chlorite. Peach away, v. to coax or entice away. Peecher, a bait; an allure* ment." B. V.
