(UK) Fine clay or ochre made up into balls, used for marking sheep.
(UK) Fine clay or ochre made up into balls, used for marking sheep.
This is the finest of the Clayey-Ore : and, thus made up into Balls, they use this also for marking of Sheep, and call it Smitt.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, obsolete) Small lumps of ore which free miners scavenged because small quantities were exempt from payment of taxes. The practice ended in 1760 when the Duke of Devonshire challenged the tax exemption.
(originally, Scotland, chiefly, US) A tiny amount; a smidge or smidgen.
To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) An infection.
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The powder or finest part of ground malt.