Meaning of pucksy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An area of miry or swampy ground; a place (in a road, field, etc) where a spring rises, or where rain pools, and keeps the ground miry.
   England, Southwestern, obsolete, possibly
2. A puck (mischievous or hostile spirit) or pixie.

Examples

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:pucksy.”

“In consequence of this neglect, a great part of these roads are subjected to a frightful disease, locally denominated pucksies; these are quagmires, arising from the weak state of the road, which, having no support left, admits the water to sink through, or, in case of springs, to arise from, a bad subsoil of various depth and quality, […]”

“[…] when on crossing at the head of the string of bogs before-mentioned, the fore-feet of my Hampshire purchase got into a puxy, as some call it, and how they were extricated I know not, unless, as some of the party would afterwards have it, "the hind feet kindly came to their relief immediately, and forcibly drove them out."”

“"I'm a bit splashed, I know; but that's the fault of the weather and the pucksies in Deep Lane."”

“The effect of a very small quantity of subsoil water upon a road on some soils is remarkable; the traffic pushes the haunches down, and the margins will heave up to a surprising extent. Occasionally, after a period of continuous wet weather, the underground water passages become overcharged, and springs or "puxies" break in the road. The effect of this is immediate where soil is fine sand overlying sandstone, and the author has frequently seen what was a strong solid road turned into a quicksand over which no traffic could pass, and upon which it was difficult to walk without sinking to some depth.”

“[…] for wood to lay in the puxy at Dideway for letting out water from ye road between Stapleton and Martock […]”

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