_Blasty._ To feed a fire with the dust of furze, &c. _Clean-sheaf._ Altogether, _e.g._ "I've clean-sheaf vargot." _Crudelee._ To crow, as a baby does. _Eickered._ Blotchy. _Giblets._ The smaller pieces of a shirt. _Scousse._ To barter. _Snyche._ Eager; ready to snap at. _Squeapity._ To squeak, as an ungreased wheel. _Stump._ Disturbance. _Treaden._ The sole of the foot. C. W. B. In addition to the names already given, the following occur to my mind:-- Spelling. Pronunciation. Alwalton, Hunts Allerton Caldicott, Hunts Cawcott Overton, Hunts Orton Brewood, Staffordshire Brood Chaddesley, Worcestershire Chaggeley. In connexion with this inquiry, would it not be interesting to make out a list of proper names of individuals, the pronunciation of which is different from the spelling; and, if possible, to trace (for example) how Trevelyan and St. John became _Trevethlan_ and _Sinjin_, and the high-sounding Cholmondeley sank, in the bathos of pronunciation, to plain Chumley? CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A. _The Word "Pick."_--Presuming that the proposal at Vol. v., p. 173., involves the discussion and illustration of the words inserted, allow me, as a Lancashire man, to express my belief that the word _pick_ has invariably the sense of "to throw," and not "to push." It is in fact another form of the verb "to pitch;" the two terminations being almost convertible, especially in words formed from the Saxon, as "fetch" from "feccean," "stitch" from "stician," "thatch" from "theccan," the earlier form of the latter word being retained in the well-known lines of "Bessy Bell and Mary Gray." _Pick_, in the sense of "throw," will be found in Shakspeare's _Henry VIII._, Act V. Sc. 3.: "I'll _pick_ you o'er the pales." And in _Coriolanus_, Act I. Sc. 1.: "As high as I could _pick_ my lance." And see the notes of the various commentators on these passages. If the subject be worth further illustration, I may mention that in the district of the cotton manufacture, the instrument by which the shuttle is _thrown_ across the loom is called a _picker_; and each thread of the woven fabric, being the result of one throw of the shuttle, is, by using the word in a secondary sense, called a _pick_. I have heard a story of a worthy patron of the Arts, more noted for his wealth than his taste, who, attributing certain freedom of touch in a picture, for which he had given a commission, to a want of due pains in elaboration, expressed his dissatisfaction by saying, "there were not the right number of _picks_ to the inch;" the threads of calico, when received from the weaver, being usually counted under the microscope as a test of the goodness of the work. J. F. M. _North Lincolnshire Provincialisms_ (Vol. v., pp. 173. 250.).--I have noted the following North Lincolnshire provincialisms since the appearance of MR. RAWLINSON'S suggestion:-- _Beat._ A bundle of flax.