jan 1, 1642 - pismire

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The ant; so called because of the smell of urine associated with ant-hills. 1642 <i>take a spade ... and goe twice a day to the Aunthills and there digge ... for pismire egges and those pismires which have wings like unto flyes</i>, Elmswell (DW115). Pismire Hill occurs several times as a minor place-name, possibly a derogatory nickname: 1548 <i>a cottage called Pyssemyre Hill at the end of le Shyregrene</i>, Sheffield (TWH28/30).

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