Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Soil the Milk before Using It.

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Soil.

So’journ (2 syl.)

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Soil the Milk before Using It.

Yorkshire for “Sile the milk, etc.”—i.e. strain it, or skim it. A sile is a sieve or strainer.

“Take a handeful of sauge, and stampe it, and temper it with hate ale, and sythene syle it thorowe a hate clothe.”—MS. Lincoln,A i. 17 f 281.

“Drink the licoure siled thorgh a clothe.”—MS. in Mr. Pettigrew’s possession (fifteenth century).

Soil.

So’journ (2 syl.)

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