Busket _s._ a bush or brake

But _s._ a basket for catching salmon; also a bee-hive. But, for Put, a heavy cart

b.u.t.ter and Eggs _s._ toad-flax, _linaria vulgaris_

b.u.t.ton stockings _s._ gaiters

b.u.t.ty _s._ a partner

Buzzies _s._ flies

Byes _s._ furrows

By-now, a short time ago

Caddle _s._ bustle, ex. We"rn jussy caddle to-day

Cadock _s._ a bludgeon, a short thick club

Cag _v._ to annoy, vex

Cag _v._ to irritate

Callenge _s._ and _v.a._ challenge

Cal-home, or Cal-over _v._ to publish or call the banns of marriage for the last time

Callyvan" or Carryvan, also Clevant and Vant, a pyramidal trap for catching birds, quy. _colly fang_, (A S _fangen_, to take)

Cannel, Cannal _s._ the faucet of a barrel--tap-and-ca.n.a.l

Car _v._ to carry, ex. Ca.s.sn"t car"n?

Carry-merry _s._ a kind of sledge used in conveying goods

Carvy-seeds _s._ carraway seeds, (_carvi sem_:)

Cauk _v._ to turn down the ends of shoes for a horse to stand on ice

Caxon _s._ a sorry wig

Chaccle _v._ to caccle as a hen

Chaity _adj._ careful, nice, delicate

Chaine _s._ a weaver"s warp

"Ch"am, (A S _ic eom_: Germ. _Ich bin_) I am. "Ch"ave, I have. "Ch"ad, I had. "Ch"ool, I would. Uch"ll go, I will go. "Chill not let go, zir, without vurther "casion." Shaks. Lear, iv, 6. This form occurs chiefly in the neighbourhood of Merriott.

Cham _v._ To chew

Charm _s._ confused noise as of birds

Cheaymer, Chimmer _s._ a bed-room

Cheese-stean _s._ a wring or press for cheese

Chibbole _s._ (Sp. _cepolla_, Fr. _ciboule_) a young onion, before the bulb is fully formed

Chilbladder _s._ a chilblain

Chilver, (A S _cilfer-lamb_), an ewe lamb. Pur, the male lamb

Chilver-hog and Pur-hog, sheep under one year old

Chine _s._ that part of a cask which is formed by the projection of the staves beyond the head. Chine-hoops top-hoops

Chissom, Chism _v._ to bud, to shoot out; also, _s._ a bud

Chowr _v._ to grumble, to mutter (A S _ceorian_, to murmur)

Clam _v._ to handle in a slovenly manner

Clamper _s._ a difficulty, ex. I zined once and a got meself in jissey clamper I never w"ont zine nothing no more

Claps _v._ clasp

Clathers _s._ clothes or rags

Clavy, a shelf. Clavel-tack, a mantel-piece, a place where keys (_claves_) are kept, a shelf for keys. Holmen-clavel, an inn on Blagdon hill, so called from having a large _holm-beam_ supporting the mantel-piece

Cleve-pink, or Cliff-pink, a species of pink growing wild in the Cheddar cliffs, _dianthus deltoides_

Clim, Climmer, Climber _v._ to climb. Clammer _s._ a worn footpath up a steep bank

Clinkers _s._ hoof marks. Clinker-bells, icicles

Clint, or Clent _v._ to clench

c.l.i.t _v._ c.l.i.tty _adj._ applied to bread not properly kneaded

c.l.i.ttersome _adj._ troublesome

Clivver-and-shiver _adv._ completely, totally

Clize, Clice _s._ a swinging door, or valve of a dike or rhine, (A S _clysing_)

Cloam, Cloamen, coa.r.s.e earthen ware

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