130 THE DIALECT OF ' What have I herd in slepe and sene ? That Qod leynyd him to a steghej And spake to me, it is no legne.' Stile-hole (pronounced steel hoit), a passage into a field made by erect- ing two upright stones with a space between, or by a breach in a wall. Stipe-holes. See Stanp-hoils. Stiperds. See Stauperds. Stirk, a young cow in the stage between a ealf and a heifer ; also a young ox. Bay has it. Stirrings, feasts ; also distiirbances. • Stite (pronounced 8tawt used in the expression ' as stite as/ which means * as lief as/ or ' as soon as.' Bay says the word is tite^ and connects it with tide. But here it is certainly stite^ for stiter may be constantly heard. * Fd stiter do it than be withaat.* * I'd stiter do it that road/ [But tite is the correct word ; ttite = atiite, * He shuld, for ferdnes titter it fle.* — ^Hampole, Prick of Conacience, 1. 2354. — W. W. S.] stock, a large number ; a lot. * What'en a stock o' names tha* has daan/ t. e. what a lot of names you haye down. Stockdove, a Wood-pigeon. Stocks, a portion of the machinery for milling cloth. When it comes out of the loom the threads may be counted ; after it has been in the etocka it is much more difficult. Stocks, a schoolboys' game, thus played : — Two boys pick a side, and there is one den only, and they toss to see which side shall keep it. The side which wins the toss then goes out, and when the boys have got a good distance off they cry <tocA». The boys who keep the den run after them to catch them. When one is caught his capturer counts ten whilst he holds him (in a more primitive but less refined state, spat over his head), and cries stocks. This prisoner is taken into the den. If they are all caught the other side turns out But if one of the outer side can manage to run through the den and cry stocks, all the prisoners are relieved, and can go out again. Stogpi, stone marbles, so called by the boys. Stone-knoper, one who breaks stones for the road. In an old Town's Book of Lepton, breaking stones is described all in one page by three different designations, * braying,* * mashing,' and * knoping stones.' Storicle, a word given to me by more than one old inhabitant, but few persons seem now to know it. Hall, spells it sterracle, and says it means * performances, strange things, sights, or doings.' I have it written storicle in my note-book, and it is said to mean a kind of story. Stormcock, the Missel-thrush.
