Meaning of lockchester | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of woodlouse.

obsolete

Examples

“Of these, the last⟳ only will be found in a dictionary of modern English, but I have⟳ already remarked that the name⟳ of lockchester is preserved among the peasantry of Oxfordshire, and I may add⟳, that the peasantry in the North of England still call⟳ a woodlouse a kitchen-ball, and that those of the Southern dialects call⟳ it a chissel-bol, which is perhaps the representative of cheslop.”

“Mr. Halliwell, walking in a garden in Oxfordshire, accidentally overheard the gardener talking about lockchesters, and immediately asking him what these were, received for answer⟳ that they were woodlice.”

“But who will not be puzzled to hear⟳ that wood-lice are still, in some parts of Oxfordshire, called Lockchesters, and that there is evidence to show⟳ that this strange name⟳ was once, not only in provincial, but in general use⟳?”

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