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WEST CORNWALL QLOSSART. 57 Stuff, ore. " Tin stuff*' (tin ore). Stug along, V, to walk with short, quick steps. gtuggy, Btnrgy, adj. short; thickset. Stnll, timher placed at the hack of levels (mine galleries) to pre- vent the foiling of ruhhish. Start, a run of luck ; more than the usual gain ; a mining term. <<He had a hra' vturt last month." Bn, r. to go dry : as a cow that has stopped giving milk. ** The cow has gone to «t«, the milk has gone into her horn." Snant, adv, smoothly. "My cotton doesn't work $wiinty Bnbnst, Sist, an advance on account of wages. Sugary -quartz, friahle quartz resemhhng loaf sugar. Bump, the hottom of a shaft. Bnmpmen, men employed in sink- ing mine shafts. Sunbeaoifly the long, light cohwehs which float in the air. Surey, a public auction. Snryey-day, the day on which the under-ground workings of a mine are let. BuflS, a great fat woman. "I never seed such a subs in my bom-days." Swabbers, certain cards at whist, by which, the holder was en- titled to part of the stakes. "I never cared for whisk since 9wabs went out of fashion." Said by an old lady at Penzance about ten years since. Still played in some parts of Corn- wall. The Bwahs are ace and deuce of trumps, ace of hearts, knave of dubs. Each player before beginning to play puts in the pool a fixed sum for swabs. The four cards are of equal value, but should hearts be trumps the ace would count doubk. Swab-stlck, a mining tool. Swail, Sweel, to scorch; to singe. '* A sweeled cat," a singed cat. Swaisinff, part, swinging. " He went down street swaising his arms." Sometimes whctzing. Swap, a gadfly. Swellaok, a red-wing. A person whose self-esteem has been snuffed out, is called "a poor swellack," H. B. C. SeeWhin- ard. Swike, a twig of heath. *'A stvike broom," a broom made of heath twigs. By, a scythe. Tab, dried roots and grass raked up and burnt; a cow-dung dried for burning. Sometimes a turf. J. W. Table-board, a table. Tabn, food. Garland. Taok, a slap. v. to slap with the open hand. Tackhanda is to slap hands by way of approval. Tacking, a thrashing or flogging. Tadago-pie, a pie made from abortive pigs. Taer, a rage. " She got into a pretty taer.** ** He*s in a pretty temper" would mean a bad temper. Tag, the tail end of a rump of heel Tail-oom, refuse com. Tailings, the poorest tin; the sweepings ; the refuse. Tail-on-end, adj, full of expecta- tion. Take a heave, v, to lose the