Lockchester

Quick meaning: Lockchester is a noun meaning (obsolete, Oxfordshire) Synonym of woodlouse.

Meaning

(obsolete, Oxfordshire) Synonym of woodlouse.

Example Sentences

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?

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.

Word Forms

• lockchesters
• lockchest

Synonyms for lockchester

Depending on context, synonyms include woodlouse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include loke, woak, oxford, shire, laithe, lathe.

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