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(an t-) seic
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bar with hooks to shift thread.
Origin: ([Canada], Inverness Co., Lochaber) or ([Canada], Inverness Co., Lochaber dialect) or ([Canada], Inverness Co., Lochaber)
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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6. Aiseal an t-seic.
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(Cha chuala mi a riamh e.)
Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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beum-seic
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Quotation: a’ bheum-seic. Notes: rupture. [NOTES: slipped under ‘beum-sice’.]
Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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beum-seic
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Quotation: a’ bheum-seic [əve:mʃiçc]. Notes: rupture. [NOTES: slipped under ‘beum-sice’.]
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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poca-seic
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Notes: (Callanish) (seic – a semi-rigid bag, made of siaman, used for barley.) Used to describe the riding of children on an adult’s shoulder, one leg on each shoulder and round the adult’s neck. Smith A (Bragar) used for this ‘raoid (i.e. ride) a’ bhreacain uasail’. Dwelly has seic (with a Lewis definition) and poca-saic ‘a large sack thrown across a horse’s back, and large enough to contain a load’.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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seic
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Quotation: seic a’ bhuntata. Notes: skin.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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seic
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Hide bag for carrying potatoes. [NOTES: ‘seice’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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seic
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bag made of hide or skin.
Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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seic
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“Abair gu robh seic orra.” (ainmhidhean) – Abair gu robh am broinn làn.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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seic
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[ʃec] Note: a large bag, made of woven straw, used for taking grain to the kiln. Carried on the back with a rope round it and round the chest. Held about quantity of two ordinary bags.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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seic shioman luachrach
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Woven sack of dried rushes used for carrying potatoes. “Gràn a seiceannan ’s siol am pocannan.” [NOTES: ‘seice shioman luachrach’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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sgeip
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Notes: pail-shaped when opened with handles on it. Made of grass or “muran”. Rather like what is called “seic” in Lionel Q.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
