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78 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. ig*8 wraok, sb, a kind of sea wiack, boiled with meal or potatoes, and given as food for pigs. Pike, 8h a rick of hay. Piky dog, sb, the piked dog-fish. Same as Gobbnok. Pile, sb. a single grain of shot. Pill, Bad pill, or Bitter pill, sb. a disagreeable person. Pillaber, sb. a pillow. Pin bone, sb. the pointed bone above a horse's flank. Pingey lookin', adj. tight ; pinched looking. Pink, (!) sb. a term of endearment applied by a young man to his sweetheart. (2) V. to strike with a sure aim. Pin well, sb, a well in the demesne of Bed Hall, near Carrickfergus, is so-called. A person having drunk from it throws in a pin as an offering. Pipe. ' Put that in your pipe and smoke it/ an expression enforcing some rather disagreeable piece of advice or information. Pipers, sb. pi. stems of grass. Pipe stapple, sb. the stem of a clay pipe. Pirn, sb. a wooden bobbin. Pirn cag^, sb. an arrangement of pins standing up from a square frame, and in which * pirns ' or bobbins are stuck — used in power- loom fiEu>tories. Pirre-maw, sb. the tern. Pismire, Pishmither, sb. an ant. Placket hole, sb. a pocket hole. Pladdy, sb. (Pladdies, pi.) a sunken rock. Planet showers, sb. pi. short heavy showers. Plan of wrack. In parts of the co. of Down the flat portion of the shore, between high and low water mark, is divided into plots, each of which belongs to a certain farm, and on these plots or ' plans' the farmers grow sea- weed for manure, cutting the wrack periodically, and carting it inland. Stones are placed for the wrack to grow on. Planting, sb. a plantation of young trees. Plants, sb. young cabbage plants fit for planting out Plarted, v. fell down. Plaster, sb, anything overloaded with vulgar showy ornament Plastery, adj. gaudy ; over-ornamented.