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[crom]
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Crom air an obair. “Wire” in.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[imrichean]
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“Imrichean fada crom ’s na lotaichean garbh.” – runners and planks. (Aird)
Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[lotaichean]
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“Imrichean fada crom ’s na lotaichean garbh.” – runners and planks. (Aird)
Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cas-chrom
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foot plough. (Stoer, Assynt) The last cas-crom [sic] I saw used in Stoer was over 60 years ago.
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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casan-ceangail
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anns a’ bhalla. Bha iad crom aig a’ cheann shuas, eag mhath air a ghearradh annta far am freagradh ceann iosal a cheangail, air a chumail ann le da chrann daraich. Chan’eil cuimhne agam an ann air an taobh a muigh no stigh a bha an eag. Bha na croinn có dhiùbh a stigh. Is iomadh balach diomhain thug cnag orra.
Origin: Geàrrloch (Loch Iubh) [Gairloch (Loch Ewe)]
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
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chaidh theab ri creig!
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(’s theaba a bhathadh cha do rinn e crom riamh [?])
Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Horgabost
Category: Faireachdain / Senses
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crom
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adj. ‘bent’: bha e ~: cha b’ urrainn dhaibh a lùbadh
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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crom
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Quotation: (Auntie Bella – Keose) “Dh’iarradh iad (anns a’ bhùth) dà phunnd de dhath donn, agus ùnnsa crom (chrome?) agus ùnnsa tart (tartaric acid?) airson a cheangal.” Notes: (Eng. ‘bomb’.) Not in Dw.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crom
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vb ‘bend’: vbl adj.:cromte [k font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;h r̻øumt´ə]
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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crom
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Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crom
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Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crom
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Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crom nan speur
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Vault of the sky.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crom shlinneinach
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Round shouldered.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crom shronach
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Roman nosed.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crom-a-riachan
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[kɾoməˈɾıɑxɑṉ] Notes: snipe.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crom-leac
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altar.
Location: Arran, Pirnmill
Category: An Eaglais / Ecclesiastical Terms
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crom-riabhach
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[kɾw̃mrıɤɤx] Notes: the snipe.
Location: Skye, Sleat, Calligary
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crom-riabhach
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[kɾɤu̜mriɤɤx] Notes: a snipe (?) (Confusion between names for corncrake and snipe.)
Location: Skye, Kyleakin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crom-riabhach
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[ɡɾɤmriɤɤx] Notes: bird, may be a snipe. Has a long beak.
Origin: Elgol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crom-uaigneach
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Quotation: Gabh mi nunn gu crom-uaigneach. Notes: I crept over as silently as possible so as not to be noticed.
Location: Islay, Port Wemyss
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cruimseach
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[kɾw̃miʃɔx] Note: fear na boirionnach mór air tòiseachadh a fàs crom.
Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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dromanach (caol)
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slatan caola seilich ùr no calltuinn mu 3' am fad. Bha thu ’gan dèanamh biorach air an dà cheann, ’gan dathadh ’sa’ mheadhon le dreiseag air an teine, ’gan lùbadh gu cumadh prine-fuilt, ’gan cur eadar rungas cathrach ’gan cumail crom. Bha iad aig an tughdair ag cumail an fhraoich ’na àite. Thogadh e gus an ath bhreth iad mar a bha e ag obair. Rachadh am fagail ’sa’ mhullach. Bha thu ’gan dathadh is ’gan toinneamh an seo [see the arrow in the picture] mus bristeadh iad anns an lùbadh.
Origin: Geàrrloch (Loch Iubh) [Gairloch (Loch Ewe)]
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
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eun crom
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fulmar.
Origin: Glasgow/South Uist? or South Uist, Kildonan or South Uist, Garrynamonie or South Uist or Skye, Bernisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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grapa crom
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[sic] to haul turf out. An grap [sic] fhéin. An t-osan. Cas a’ ghrap [sic].
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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grapa crom
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Fork with bent prongs for spreading fertiliser. See diag. [NOTES: probably refers to a diagram provided by the informant.] [NOTES: spelled ‘gràpa crom’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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grapa-crom
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Notes: grape with prongs set at right angles to the handle for pulling manure, seaweed etc. out of carts.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gràpa crom
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graip - air a uisneachadh air uaireanan airson ’ga toirt as a’ chairt. Na’s fhaide na gràpa dìreach [q.v.].
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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minidh
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[mĩṉi] Note: a shoemaker’s awl. “Minidh dearcaidh”: the finer-pointed awl for stitching two parts of the uppers together. “Minidh buinn”: an awl with the tip bent used for soling. Sometimes called “minidh crom”.
Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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minidh-crom
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Notes: awl used for soling shoes.
Location: Skye?, Braes, Baile Meadhonach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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minidh-crom
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Notes: awl with a bent tip used for soling shoes.
Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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rùdhadh
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setting the peats up on end in groups of five or six, with one peat flat over the top of the others, like a ‘crom-lech’ to ward off the rain, a kind of cap. Each group is a ‘rùdhan’. This is called ‘fittin’’ the peats in Kintyre. A lady from Shetland visiting recently used this term fittin’ – probably from ‘footing’.
Location: Cinntire, An Ceann a Deas [Kintyre, Southend by Campbeltown]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
