Audlem happened to be one of the villages which the research team selected for their investigations. Perhaps not surprisingly many of the unusual words recorded related to somewhat down-to-earth farming activities.
So the following selection of words were recorded in Audlem sometime in the mid-1960's – does anybody still use them 40 or so years later?
word | meaning |
orrack | break up cow dung with a fork |
pan shovel | muck fork |
chawl | lower jaw of a pig |
gambrel | instrument to stretch the legs of a pig's carcase |
cambrel | butcher's nail |
boozy pasture | field closest to farm buildings |
pothery | close or stuffy |
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