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Furness Dialect Dictionary

Plants

ling - heath; heather  
  • kelk - hemlock; wild beaked parsley
  • fitch - vetch
  • eeaster ledjes - biswort or snake weed, (cooked with veal and eaten at Easter)
  • thrumwort - water plantain
  • gollin - marsh marigold
  • kers - cress, as watter kers
  • ketlock - charlock; wild mustard
  • keish - cow parsnip; water hemlock
  • pig nut - root of Bunium flexuosum
  • sour dockin - common sorrel
    (noted for the acidity of its herbage)
  • pissibed - dandelion
  • ramps - wild onions
  • tormentil - root of an astringent herb
    (a specific for dysentry)
  • hæasty - Haesty Rojer, Fig Wort
  • horse knop - knapweed
  • craa feet - wild hyacinths
  • mækin - the yellow iris
  • whins - furze
  • gers - grass
  • wicks - roots of couch grass
  • dodherin girs - quaker grass
  • bent - coarse grass growing on coastal sand hills
  • goos girs - cleavers, Goose grass
  • reishes or seevs - rushes
  • braken - fern, especially the large varieties
  • seea pink - thrift
  • tang-el - sea weed

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