144 THE DIALECT OF Wake (gL walk), to watch with a sick peKon ; to work bj candle- light Waken (pronounced wakken), to wake, or awake : both active and neuter. Wakender, or Wakkener (pronounced wakkeiider; gL waakudur), liyelier ; more awake. Walt, to totter, or fall over ; also, to turn over. Two Almondbury men were looking into a crockery shop, when one said to the other, ' Sitha, Johnny, what a nawce t^^pot ! Couldst ta lawk to hav' it ? ' To whom Johnny replied, rubbing his hands slowly over each other, ' Nay, lad ; it ud wcUt ma table ovver,' being too big and too fine for him. Wamble (pronounced wammie; gl. waam'l), to move with wind, as the intestines ; to wriggle. Used in Pembrokeshire for to twist like a worm. It is also used as an adjective : * Aw feel rate wake and wammW Especially applied to horses when weak in their legs. ; Wan, past tense of to win. Wan', past tense olio wlndj or wind. Wandy (rhyme to handy), like a wand. * A wandy lad ' is a well- grown lad, straight and slim. Wangby, tough. Perhaps from wangs, the cheek or jaw teeth. In Cumberland and some parts of Yorkshire a tough kind of cheese is called * old wang '; here, ' wangby cheese.' Wantcr, or Wantey (a as in man), a large girth for a pack-horse.
- Aw niwer saw owt like thee. Tha's coom*d without wanter ag^n.
Aw mun get thee a piece on a warp to festen it on.' From Depositions from York Castle (Surtees Society^, p. 210: *. . - who laid soe till the next morning he found they had cutt the wanty that tyed his pack fast to his panyers,' &c. Wtnty (pronounced as the last), wanting ; deficient. Ware. See Wear. Wark, work. Wark, to ache. Tooith-t^ar/r is' tooth-ache ; belly-warA: is stomach- ache ; yead- or yed- wark is head-ache ; shackle- war A? is pain in the wrist. As a verb this word is found in the * Processus Noe' {Ton neley Mysterits) :
- My bonys are so stark,
No wonder if thay wark. For I am fuUe old/ Warm (prrnounced as usual), to beat, or thrash. Very common. Used in Pembrokeshire.
