heapen

Updated: May 28, 2025

'The blackthorns clung with heapen sloes' Again, in the line 'He well may come with baits and trolls', we do not know whether trolls has something to do with pike-fishing, or merely means the reel on the rod. 'And trolls and pixies unbeknown'.

Society for Pure English - Society for Pure English, Tract 05: The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems