Laborious | adj | Painful |
Labourer | n | Navigator |
Labourer, seasonal | n | Strapper |
Labyrinth | n | Troy-Town |
Lacking central stalk (of cabbage) | adj | Buzzel-Hearted |
Ladle | n | Keach, Skippet |
Lady-in-waiting | n | Company-keeper |
Ladylike | adj | Ladyfied |
Lady's slipper (plant) | n | Calcalary |
Lagoon | n | Ear |
Lake, mountain | n | Tarn |
Lamb | v | Ean, Yean |
Lamb, castrated male | n | Pur |
Lamb's bollocks | n | Larbets |
Lamb's tongue (flower) | n | Fighting-Cock |
Lame | adj | Catching-Pen, Hip-Shot |
Lame person | n | Lamiger |
Lamprey | n | Chubby-Head |
Lancet | n | Lance |
Land ploughed several times | n | Fallow |
Land prepared for seed | n | Breach |
Land which abuts another property | n | Buttal |
Land without farm buildings | n | Overland |
Land, long strip of | n | Lannock |
Land, thin strip of | n | Rap |
Land, triangular piece of | n | Gore |
Landing-place | n | Stade |
Landmark | n | Therting |
Landscape | n | Scape |
Landslide | n | Rushment |
Landslip | n | Colt |
Lane, narrow | n | Strangway |
Lanky | adj | Gant, Screely, Skaney |
Lanky person | n | Slink |
Lapwing | n | Corniwillen, Hornywink, Lymptwigg, Maulyarn |
Lard | n | Mort, Sallis, Vley |
Lard, residue of | n | Scallop |
Lardy cake | n | Fatty-cake |
Large | adj | Bumping, Feat, Hitching, Mickle |
Large (of amount) | adj | Miserable |
Large amount | n | Benjoram, Binder, Lerrick, Main |
Large area | n | Reef |
Large helping | n | Stodger |
Large object | n | Hitcher, Slapper |
Large piece | n | Louchet |
Large quantity | n | Volume |
Large-eyed | n | Saucer-eyed |
Larva of gnat | n | Tittle-Tag |
Larva of goat-moth | n | Log-Caterpillar |
Lash of whip | n | Twister |
Lash tightly | v | Scurrifunge |
Last night | adv | Over-Night, To-Night |
Last person in race | n | Lob |
Last rites | n | Prayers of the Church |
Last to finish a meal | n | Linnard |
Lately | adv | Latterly, Rather |
Lathe | n | Laff, Lare, Latt |
Latrine | n | Dunnekin |
Lattice (of window) | v | Louk |
Laudanum | n | Lodlum |
Laugh derisively | v | Grizzle |
Laugh loudly | v | Hob |
Lavender | n | Speet, Spick, Spike, Spikenard, Spuke |
Laxative | n | Laxitory |
Lay claim to | v | Crave |
Lay down a hedge | v | Lade |
Lay eggs | v | Ledge |
Lay hedge | v | Splash |
Lay planks | v | Plancher |
Layabout | n | Drazack, Slickler |
Layer | n | Cess, Lain |
Layer of hay cut from rick | n | Cake |
Layer of hay cut from rick | v | Slipe |
Layers of hedge | n | Cleachers |
Laziness | n | Hag, Isle-Of-Wight dog |
Lazy person | n | Dawdle |
Leadership skills | n | Direct |
Leaf (metal) | n | Latten |
Lean | v | Line, Lust |
Lean (of cattle) | adj | Skenting |
Leap | v | Lance |
Leapfrog | n | Cocky-Warny, Ship-a-Sailing |
Learn one's trade | v | Improve |
Least | adj | Leastest |
Leather | n | Kip |
Leather strap on saddle | n | Avang |
Leave alone | v | A-Be |
Leave at a critical time | v | Unyoke in the Sherd |
Leaves, dead | n | Kibble |
Lecture | v | Documenty |
Leech | n | Blood-Sucker |
Leeks, made from | adj | Leeky |
Leer | v | Glean, Slier |
Left (1) | adj | Click |
Left (2) | adv | Hither |
Left-handed | adj | Cooche, Coochy. Gawk, Keck-Handed, Marlborough-Handed, Scoochy-Pawed, Watty |
Legacy | n | Spud (3) |
Legget | n | Poacher |
Leggings | n | Galligaskins |
Legs thinner on calf-side | n | Gibby-legs |
Lemon balm (plant) | n | Balm |
Lemon verbena | n | Lemon-plant |
Lemon-scented agrimony | n | Haemony |
Lengthwise | adv | Alongst |
Lentils | n | Tills |
Leper | n | Meazle |
Less than | conj | Alassen |
Lesser celandine | n | Bright-Eye |
Lesser Duckweed | n | Groves, Grozens |
Lesser Periwinkle (flower) | n | Blue Betsy, Sengreen |
Lesser Spearwort | n | Spurwood |
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | n | Barred Woodpecker |
Lest | conj | Less, Lesten |
Let business manage itself | v | Let the Tow Run Slack |
Level | n | Levvy |
Level of plough | n | Spill |
Leveret | n | Parre |
Liar | n | Liard, Ligster |
Library book | n | Library |
Licence to mine in the Forest of Dean | n | Gale |
Licensed | adj | Allowed |
Lichen | n | Brighten |
Lich-Gate | n | Trim-Tram |
Lie (1) | n | Rapper |
Lie (2) | v | Whibble |
Life | n | Live |
Lifelike | adj | Parent |
Light (1) | v | Tend |
Light (2) | adj | Lissome |
Light plough-horse | n | Cocker |
Light-hearted | adj | Lightsome |
Lignite | n | Noah-wood |
Likelihood | n | Lection |
Likely | adj | Liable, Liken |
Likely to improve | adj | Altering |
Limestone | n | Critch |
Limp (1) | v | Clop, Flimp, Limple, Trimple |
Limp (2) | adj | Limpsy |
Limping | adv | Clappaty, Hippety-Hop, Lippitty-Lop |
Line attached to salmon net | n | Muntle |
Line of raked hay | n | Hatch |
Line up (of shot) | v | Gunny |
Line used in salmon fishing in the Severn | n | Belche |
Lineage | n | Havage |
Linen, strong | n | Brin |
Linen, twilled | n | Drabbet |
Linguist | n | Linguister |
Linnet | n | Lennert, Linget |
Linseed | n | Lintseed |
Lintel | n | Clavel |
Liquor, Medicinal | n | Comfortable stuff |
Lisping | adv | Lipsy |
Listen | v | Lowsen |
Lithe | adj | Lither |
Litter | n | Filtry |
Litter (of animals) | n | Muster |
Litter (of pigs) | n | Math, Trip, Vawth |
Litter for horses | n | Berrithatch |
Litter of pigs | n | Brood |
Little | adj | Lile |
Little bit | n | Thought |
Little grebe | n | Dabber |
Live-in (of servant) | adj | Indoors |
Live-in servant | n | Indoor servant |
Lively | adj | Flippant, Pert, Sprackt, Sprag, Tid, Yark |
Lo | int | La |
Load | n | Burcott, Tad |
Load of corn or hay, small | n | Jibbet |
Load of hay or straw, small | n | Jobbet, Jobble, Jogget |
Load of laundry, large | n | Buck, Bucking |
Load, small | n | Jagg, Ticket |
Loaf | v | Moke |
Loaf, small | n | Manchet |
Loan | n | Lence |
Local tax | n | Scot |
Lode | n | Bunch |
Lodge | v | Bed |
Lodging-house | n | Lone |
Loft | n | Lart, Tarrat |
Log | n | Chog, Chowl, Chuck, Plock, Plug |
Log for burning | n | Brand |
Log put at the back of the fire | n | Back-Brand |
Log, small | n | Oxer |
Loin of veal or mutton | n | Kerle, Kiddon, Kidney |
Loins | n | Lining |
Loiter | v | Angle-Berry, Hanker, Lobbet, Mike, Sawm, Studel |
Loiterer | n | Stickler |
Loitering | adj | Swotchulting |
Loll | v | Sule |
Lollop | v | Loppet |
London Pride | n | Nancy-Pretty, Peace and Plenty |
Long (of distance) | adj | Dogged |
Long for | v | Lang |
Long sticks twisted to make a hedge | n | Raddle, Radling |
Long, narrow strip of land | n | Lagger |
Long-eared | adj | Lowle-Eared |
Long-haired (of cats) | adj | Muffety |
Long-tailed tit | n | Bottle-Tit, Bumbarrel, Bum-Towel, Caffin, Capon, Caton, Hag-Mall, Mumruffin |
Look askance | v | Slize |
Look busy without accomplishing anything | n | Diddle |
Look for | v | Row for |
Look here | int | Ellook, Yallack |
Look miserable | v | Glump |
Look red (of sky) | v | Scoul |
Look slyly at | v | Glade |
Look up | v | Kite |
Looking like rain | adj | Altery |
Loony | adj | Luny |
Loop connecting the two parts of a flail | n | Capel, Caplin, Cattan |
Loop dropped in netting | n | Stoler |
Loose | adj | Latchety |
Loose (of gravel) | adj | Shuff |
Loose (of soil) | adj | Shifty, Shravey |
Loose talk | n | Lurry |
Loosen | v | Lowse |
Lopsided | adj | Lobsided |
Loquacious | adj | Tonguey |
Lord (minced oath) | int | Lan, Loor |
Lord have mercy | int | Lor-A-Massy |
Lose | v | Loss |
Lose hair | v | Peal |
Loss | n | Lost |
Lots | n | Lushings |
Lounge | v | Linge |
Lounge | v | Lunge |
Lout | n | Knaw-Post |
Loutish | adj | Louting |
Love | v | Pity |
Love, Platonic | n | Cotton-love |
Lover | n | Lovier |
Low-born | adj | Donkey-bred |
Lower | v | Low |
Lower | adj | Nether |
Lowest stratum of Purbeck stone | n | Skull-Cap |
Lozenge | n | Lozenger |
Lug | adj | Lug |
Lukewarm | adj | Luce, Rumbago |
Lumbago | n | Spine |
Luminous | adj | Blicant |
Lump | n | Lob, Lunch, Mump |
Lump in skin of cattle produced by gadfly larva | n | Wornil |
Lump of bread or cheese, large | n | Hocket |
Lump of coal | n | Nobbling |
Lumps in dough | n | Slut's Farthings |
Lumpy | adj | Charky |
Lunch | n | Munch, Nammet, Nummatin, Nunch |
Lungwort | n | Jerusalem Cowslip, Joseph and Mary |
Lurk | v | Lurch |
Luxuriant (of vegetation) | adj | Gross |
Lying about (of clothes etc) | v | Kicking about |
Lying flat | adv | Alie |
Lymph-nodes, swollen | n | Crundles |
Lynchpin | n | Linse-pin |