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coileach n.
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‘rooster’:( tha) an coileach a’ gairm [əŋ kʰɔləx ə kɤr ́ɤ̀m]
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, North Shore, Wreck Cove
Category: Wreck Cove, North Shore wordlist
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gairm vbl. n.
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‘crow’:( tha) an coileach a’ gairm [əŋ kʰɔləx ə kɤr ́ɤ̀m]
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, North Shore, Wreck Cove
Category: Wreck Cove, North Shore wordlist
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(7) Puta gloine
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So puta de ghloine uaine a bhios a’ tighinn air tir air a’ chladach a bhios a’ fosgladh bho thràbhlaichean nan tralairean. Tha iad mu shia oirlich a’ leud mun teis meadhon, is ni tri dhuibh [sic] ann am pios lin puta lin bhig ann an tìde mhath, ach tha iad duilich am faicinn ma bhios pluicean no coileach air a’ mhuir.
Origin: [Lewis], Dail a Tuath or [Lewis], Suaineabost [Swainbost] or [Lewis], Lional
Category: Acfhuinn Iasgaich / Fishing Tackle
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coileach
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Notes: male crab. (Also cléireach (m) and altruman (f).)
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach
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Notes: male lobster.
Location: Islay, Port Wemyss
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach
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Quotation: coileach an teas. Notes: the glitter from rocks when the sun shines on them.
Location: Romasdal
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach
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male.
Location: Harris, Sgarastamhor
Category: Iasgach a’ Ghiomaich / Lobster-Fishing
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coileach
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froth from propeller.
Location: Harris, Leverburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach
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Quotation: Tha i a’ gabhail coilich [əɡɑɑlkɑliç]. Notes: flecks of white foam appearing on the sea as the wind rises.
Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach
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Notes: male crab.
Location: Skye?, Braes, Baile Meadhonach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach
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Quotation: Tha a h-uile coileach làidir air a dhùnan fhéin.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach
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Quotation: Cuir coileach air do ghuth! Notes: Speak more loudly!
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach
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Quotation: coileach coilleadh. Notes: woodcock. [NOTES: slipped under ‘coileach-coille’.]
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach an teas
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Notes: when day is hot, and the heat shimmers, the illusion is called coileach an teas.
Location: [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach coille
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Location: Mull [see below for details]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach coille
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woodcock.
Location: Argyll, Tarbert, Muasdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach dubh
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a victim, totally vanquished. “Rinn iad coileach dubh dheth.”
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach dubh
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black grouse.
Origin: [Tiree]
Category: Eòin Thiriodh / Birds of Tiree
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coileach fraoich
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red grouse.
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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coileach fraoich
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red grouse.
Origin: [Tiree]
Category: Eòin Thiriodh / Birds of Tiree
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coileach gaoithe
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Weather vane.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach puilis
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Notes: ‘turkey cock’.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-Frangach
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turkey. (documented)
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-Frangach
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A variant on the ‘golan gaoithe’ previously described by R. O’Henley. Feathers stuck into a potato and then taken outdoors and used as a spinning top. Required wind assistance. [NOTES: ‘golan’ corrected to ‘gobhlan’.]
Location: South Uist, Kildonan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-circe
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hen cockerel. A distinction term to differ [sic] a one kind or species of cockerel from the other.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-coille
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capercaillie.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-coille
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Note: woodcock.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-dubh
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black cock. (colloquial, Scalpay)
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-dubh
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[kɛ̜ɫəx d̪u:] Notes: blackcock.
Location: Arran, Pirnmill
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-dubh
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down for the count. Rinn e coileach-dubh dhe. [NOTES: the slip has ‘Rinn e coileach-dubh dheth.’]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-dubh
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blackcock.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-dubh
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black grouse. [NOTES: slip not found.]
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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coileach-dubh
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Notes: Black Grouse. (Black Cock.)
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-fraoich
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heath cock. (colloquial, Scalpay)
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-fraoich
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heath-cock.
Category: Eòin / Birds
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coileach-gaoithe
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weathercock.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-gaoithe
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weather cock.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-gaoitheadh
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Notes: a round basket with a hole in the top for holding wool for spinning.
Location: Raasay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-gaoitheadh
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Notes: said by them to be a mock sun, seen above the horizon. Could be seen at sunset or sunrise. Said to indicate a change of weather.
Location: Romasdal
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-gòthan
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buntàta le itean air an stobadh ann. Bhidhte cluich leis air là gaothach. “Shuttlecock”. (Tiriodh)
Location: [various]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coileach-gòthan
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[kɤlɑxɡɔ:ɑṉ] Notes: potato with feathers stuck in it – blown by the wind along the ground.
Location: Tiree, Caolis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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coille
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Quotation: coileach coilleadh. Notes: woodcock.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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dùnan
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Quotation: Tha a h-uile coileach làidir air a dhùnan fhéin.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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teas
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Quotation: coileach an teas. Notes: the glitter from rocks when the sun shines on them.
Location: Romasdal
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
