A greater quantitie of victuall is carried from Zeila, … and beastes also, as namely sheepe, … as also certaine other all white with tayles a fathome long, and writhen like a vine branche, hauing thropples vnder their throtes like bulles.
Apparently a use of the word to refer to a wattle (“a fold of skin hanging from the neck”).]
Do you shim those stubbles before ploughing? Answer. No; but I spuddle them, to make the ground as clean as possible. Spuddling is performed with the plough, and is of the nature of shiming.
After a mile or so there branched from it a private road which followed a line of noble poplars that led to the pretentiously simple porch of a cottage ornée called ‘The Hut’.
The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.
