ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSriELD. 131 Stoven (pronounced stuwen, to rhyme with overi^.- When a bough of a tree is cut off, or a tree cut down, the portion left close to the trunk, or the remainder of the trunk itself, is the stoven. Hall says it is a young shoot from the trunk of a tree which has been felled. Strackled. A sfrackle-hTained fellow is a careless, thoughtless, heedless one, as Halliwell says, and not a half idiot. Strade, past tense of to stride, Stra^, Stree, o?* Stre& {gl. stree, stri'h*), the pronunciation of straw, Strake, past tense of to strike. See Acts xxvii. 17. Strang, past tense of to stnng, Strave, past tense of to stnue. Stretcher. See Snigtree. Strickle, an instrument to strike com from the measure ; also an instrument covered with emery to sharpen scythes. Strinkle, to scatter matters, especially such as are of a powdery nature ; as sand on the floor, emery on a * strickle,' salt or sup^ar on bread. Water also may be strinhled. There may be a strinMing of rain. In * Thomas Indiee ' (Towndey Myateriea, p. 283) we find :
- Luf makys me, as ye may see, atre^ikyllid withe blood so red.'
Strinkling, sb, used in a somewhat wider sense than the verb, to express in addition small quantities or numbers scattered amongst a greater mass. Thus a congregation might consist chiefly of women, with a strtnkling of men. Strippings, the last milk from the cow. Stroak, or Stroke (gl. stroa*h'k), half a bushel. Struncheon (pronounced strunsJin; gl, struonsh'n). Hall, says,
- a verse of a song.* A common word here, and seems to signify a
tune, or part of one. A thrush singing near was 'giving us a struncheon,* I was informed. It might be said to a fiddler, * Come, old chap, give us a struncheon,* Studded, or Stooded {gl, studid 1), astonished. Studden, or Stooden, stood ; participle of to stand. Nanny A. ' o' th' Ing Yed,' Thurstonland, called up her family one winter's morning somewhat too early, for the clock had stopped. She set them to work, and when she thought it was time, made breakfast, but there was no daylight. After what seemed a proper interval, she gave them their forenoon drinking — still no daylight. She then set the pot on to boil the meat, exclaiming, * It'll ne'er be leet to-day.' A man who worked on the premises now came in, and said, * Dame, wat art ta doin' ? ' She answered, * Wha, lad, yar clock's studden. Aw thowt it wur ne'er baan to be day-leet ; we ha' had aar breakfast and aar fore- nooin drinkin', and we naa mun ha' our dinnur.' K 2
