16 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. Croft, a small common. *'An enclosed common not yet culti- vated." J.W. Croggaiu, shells of limpets. Crooks, crocked pieces of wood in the form of a half-circle slune on each side of a horse. Used in the time of pack-horses to carry light loads on. Croom, a crumb ; a drop. "Taake a croom o' caake and a crocnn o' comfort" (spirits). Croony, adj, childish ; doating. Crouging, part, shuffling. "He goes crouging along." Crow (as in crowd), a hut; a small house. Fig^s-crow, a pig- stye. Crowd, a wooden hoop covered with sheep-skin, used for taking up corn. " Sometimes used as a tambourine, then called crowdy- cratvn/* Davy, Zennor. Crowd, a fiddle. Crowder, a fiddler. Crowdy, v. to play the fiddle. Crownin, a coroner's (crowner's) inquest. "They held a crcwnin on him." Crow-sheaf, the top sheaf on the end of a mow. Mow in W. Corn- wall is pronotmced like cow. " The corn was cut and mowed " (stacked). Crowst (ow like cow), refresh- ments given to farm-labourers in the field at harvest-time. Cmddle, v. to curdle. Crudly up, v. to curl up. Cmds, curds. Crudge, T. C, St. Just. Cruel, adv. very. " She was fyrud sick" (very ill). "A cruel shaape " (shape) is a great mess. "Twere plaise sure in a crud shaape." — Unde Jan Trmoodle, Cmll, a bushy^ curly head. '^ His head es all o' a cru»." ** Owld CrulV Crum, adj. crooked. "Her finger is crum." Cmm-a-grackle, mess, difficulty, bother. ' ' Here's a pretty crum- a-gradde ! what shall we do by itP^ St.Just,T.O. Cnunmet, a small bit ; a crumb. Cnunpling, a little sweet wrinkled apple prematurely ripe. Cnmk, V. to croak as a raven. F. 0. Cuckoo, Ouckow, the wild hyacinth. "Fool, fool, the Guck-owf^* said by one boy to another when he has succeeded in fooling him on April FooFs day. Cud, a quid of tobacco. Cuddle, Coodle, a cuttle-fish.
- Staring like a coodW^
Cue, an ox shoe; an iron heel put on a shoe or boot Culiaok, a good-for-nothing per- son. Davy, Zennor. Cuny, adj. mildewed. Custance, a term used by boys in playing. "When two boys are partners, and by accident hit each other's marbles, they cry, No cutiance ! meaning that they have a right to put back the marble struck. If they neglected to cry they would be considered out of the game. CuBtis, a flat piece of board with a handle, formerly used by teachers in school to strike the palm of the hand. Cu&tU is now applied to a smart cut given across the palm of the hand by a cane. ** 111 give you a custis.^ Custit, adj. sharp in reply ; impudently sharp. Couch. Custom {vron. coostom), raw, smuggled spirits. A drap o'
