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ribbons of cloth. [NOTES: slipped under ‘stiap (pl. -an)’.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous - stiapan
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Quotation: stiapan/stèapan a’ bhùirn. Notes: (Cnoc Ard, Ness) Streaks of foam on sea, presaging rain. Dw. has stèapan ‘candle-wick’.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous - stiapan
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strips, strips of cloth. Stiapan fada.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous - stiapan
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[ʃtʹiɑpɑṉ] Note: a long thin thing, sometimes hanging from something, like a thread, etc.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous - stiapan
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[ʃtʹiɑpɑṉ] Note: applied to a slimy, sticky mixture, e.g. làghan. “Stuth leanmhainneach.”
Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
