42 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. Peart, adj, smart He's a ftart feUow." PeaseiLy the plaial of peas. Peathy, adj. witty ; fall of quaint sayings. *' He's a peathy man."
- Peathy old feUow with plenty
of gomption." Pedalmcan, the great cattle-fish. Scilly Isles, through H. B. 0. {pron, padilincan). Pednameny, a game played with pins: also called Pinny-Ninny. " Pedna - a - meaii^ heads - and - tails, a game of pins." B. Y. Pednan, small pieces of turf. Davy, Zennor. PednbokshrloBtwitheL Spoken hy fishermen in describing the peculiar model of a boat : is said to mean ' * cod's head and conger's tail." W. F. P. Pedn-borbas, cod's head. B. Y. Pedn-paly, the blue-tit. Peel, a pillow. Polwhele. Peendy, adj. tainted, applied to meat. Peeth, a welL Pellar, a conjuror; a cunning man, anplied to in supposed cases of bewitching. Pellas, Pillns, oats without husks. "I hove down some peilaB amonffst 'em to eat." Pil- oom, Avefim Ntida, Pellowe-bere, Pillow-bere, a pillow-case. "I were glad to put ma head 'pon the pellawe- here.** — Uncle Jan Trenoodle, Pend, V, to shut in. T. Q. Couch. Pendle, a pendulum. Peniqae, adj, firm ; precise ; neat. '* She's a penique little thing." '* You are looking quite penique.^^ Peijixiketyy ac^'. apt to take offence. Phrase. " I shall soon learn the phrases of the house " (the habits of the family). Polwhele. Pick-np, fish and potatoes mashed togedier and fried. PicronB-day, the miner*8 great holyday, supposed to be in honour of PicroiM, the discoverer of tin. Pie. '* Your hands are like pie " (very warm). Piecen (pron. peacen), t;. to patch ; to put in a piece. Pif^ a slight quarrel ; a tiff. Piggal, a pick-axe; a large hoe used for cutting tuxf. KWT-*®fi>» * dog-fish. Piggy-whidden, the smalleet or youngest pig, sometimes applied to the youngest child. '*My piggy-wnidden " (a white pig). Piggy - whidden - pie. " Some would die, and some did die, and of these we made piggy- whidden-pie.** Pig's-orowe. See Crowe. Pilcher, a pilchard. "Money without love is hke salt without pilchers/* ' ' Killed as dead as a salt pilcher," Like crame (cream) upon pilchers" or pOchaids. Pile, deeply involved. "In a pile of wrangle," t. e, deeply in- volved in the dispute. Polwhele. Piler. " A farm implement used to pound, or cut the beards from barley in winnowing." B. Y. PUf, light grass and roots raked together to be burnt. Pilf , Pilm, Pillem, light dust or fluff West Cornwall, «*Inthe east of Cornwall applied to dried mud,"' Polwhele. Piliers, places on the downs in- terrupting their smoothness ; tufts of long grass, rushes, &o., forming covers for hares.
