Answers to Lackham Museum 'Wiltshire Words'
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1. c) A pump for spraying insecticide onto potatoes on an allotment.

 

 

 

2. c) An ox hoof stone picker from Bratton.

 

 

 

3. a) A cow collar to prevent calves from suckling from the mother cow.

 

 

4. a) A rushlight holder (rush strips coated in fat were once used for lighting)

 

 

5. b) A fox trap set near to their earths.

 

6. a) Sugar nippers used to break up solid sugar canes.

 

7. a) A manure cutter.

 

 

8. a) A thatching spar for pegging straw sheaves on a roof.