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ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 149 Wind (wannd : t long), the vind. Wind (contrary to the last), the verb to wind. ' To whid bobbins/ Windrows (pronounced waundrow8 a term nsed in hay-making when Uie crop is raked into rows after being in Hcklitu, and before being put into cock. Wine, pronounced waun by old people, or sometimes woine : evidently passing into tvine. Winter-hedge, a clothes' horse. In Scotland called a tointer-dyJce. This word is unknown in Cumberland. A lady from Huddersfield, who had been for more than twenty years resident in Cumberhind, was astonished to hear a new servant, a native, use this word. Ou inquiry, it appeared that the girl's mother was a Torkshirewoman, who had imported the word from her original county. the haulm of potatoes. Found in old MSS. wyse, Witoh. This word is applied to males as well as female& The following is an aooount of a visit to a witch about 1790, given in the narrator s own words. ' We four — Joshua Moorhouse, Matthy Moorhouse, Joe Tinker, and mysen* (Jem d' Benny's) — 'went one Sunday to see t' witoh ' (who lived near Holmfirth) : ' sho could ha' witched onnybody. The^ ooiddn't get a cofe to live abaat there for iwer so far, and all thro' that (her). ' When we gate to t^ haas Matthy Moorhouse said to th' owd man, " Au've yeerd theer's somebody 'a< can do hurt abaat thee I " He replied, " YoU see if yo' stop a bit happen : ho&$ oft a plagin^ some- bony if strangers ooom." Gr owd man then said, *' Au'U waish me, and shirt me I " In a moment shirt flew aat o' f box at back o* if fire—Au saw it, We all saw it — and stones fell daan chimley. Matthy Moorhouse said, "Preya let's gooa, or hooll hav' howd o' some on us." ' We saw th' owd woman ; hoo sat broodin' ower t' fire ; hoo said nowt to us. Old Mat said, *' Wat art ta' doin[ i' that fashion ? " Hoo ^v' him no answer. There was a deal o' things i' them days there isn't naa (1867). Yo' cotdd ha' gone to no haas and seen a bit o' cake ' (wh?&t breftd), ' it were all haver br^ftd then.' One G. B. lived next door to W. M., and was a believer in witches. ' A piece of beef fell down and brake his warp ; so when he was fettin' agate a wavin' he had to get a charm for it. He had a bottle ung up the chimley with his watters in, and as the^ wasted it would side away t' witch. Old D.' (see Diabolion) ' gave mm a diarm which he fixed i' th' warp, and he went on wavin' after we pulled it aat. We then tell'd him on it, and he could not wave agean until he gate another charm.' See Meant. Witeh, a machine which stands on the top of a loom, and was used previously to the jaoquard machine for the purpose of figuring the cloth. Wither, to throw quickly, or forcibly. ' He 'tntJier^d it wi' some vengeance.' Evidently connected with vnUher, if not the same word. Occurs in the OuUaw Murray, ver. 15 :