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| Word or saying | Meaning/Definition |
| Prattle | To ramble on |
| Proggle | To poke about (With a stick etc) |
| Roaring | Crying |
| Sally | A Hare |
| Scratting | Scratching |
| Scurf | Dandruff |
| Scrawk | To scratch |
| Shin up | To climb up a drainpipe or thin tree etc |
| Singling | Thinning out of sugar beet |
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| Siling | Pouring with rain |
| Skell or skill over | Tip over |
| Skullery | Kitchen |
| Skerry | Weeding sugar beet |
| Slape | Slippery |
| Sleck | Satisy your thirst or sleck dust by putting water on it |
| Slive | To creep about |
| Sneck | Fastening on door |
| Snip rug | Rug made from strips of old cloth |
| Sole | To give a good hiding to |
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| Spry | Lively |
| Splather footed | Splayed feet |
| Starnil | Starling |
| Stitherum | In a muddle |
| Stag | A cockerel |
| Sticking | Collecting firewood |
| Strap | Belt for holding trousers up |
| Swath | Rind on bacon |
| Taties | Potatoes (vegetable) or holes in socks |
| Taffle | Tangle as in string |
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| Tenting | Tending animals (looking after or watching over them when feeding) |
| Thack pegs | Wooden sticks three feet long used in thatching corn stacks |
| Throng | Busy |
| Tiff | Tough meat |
| To be wick | Lithe, lively |
| Trod | Pathway |
| Tumril | Feeding trough for cattle in a crew yard |
| Twizzle | To spin round |
| Uneppen | Clumsy |
| Unch | Cold |
| Utch up | Move up |
| Wassack | A fool |
| Wash dyke | Dyke where sacks were washed |
| Werriting | Worrying |
| While | Until |
| Whoa | To stop a horse (Rhymes with low) |
| Wrecklin | Smallest pig in the litter |
| Yok | To connect up, as in yok the horse to the cart |
| Yuck | Pull |
| Yucker | Young person |
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