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[feannag]
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Mar thuirt an fheannag ri da chois, ’s dubh sibh le cheile.
Origin: [North Uist?]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[fuaigheal]
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Fuaigheal chasa feannag. Herring bone stitch. [NOTE in second hand: Eng. deriv.]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bristeadh
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Turning inwards and breaking the clods when making ‘feannag’.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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clais
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between feannagan.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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clais
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drain between the two feannags.
Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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clàr
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larger than the above two portions [i.e. iomair and feannag] and more or less square; croft. Ex. clàr bunata, clàr corc, clàr shneip.
Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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druim na feannaig
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Middle of the ‘feannag’.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feamainn dubh
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Black seaweed (used for “feannagan”). Types: (a) aona chasach – does not float. (b) feamainn bhuilgeanach – black ‘knotted’ seaweed. (c) feamainn chìreanach – black ‘bubbly’ seaweed. (e) buidheagach – black seeweed which floats sometimes – feamainn bhuidhe. (e) glaobhrach / gleodhrach – seeweed of the ‘black’ type. It floats. [NOTES: ‘feamainn dhubh’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag
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“Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag
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“Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag
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Notes: lazy-bed.
Location: Sutherland, Durness, Sangomore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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Notes: a small plot of cultivated land.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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“Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag
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“Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag
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“Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag
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hooded crow.
Location: Argyll, Tarbert, Muasdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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Location: Mull [see below for details]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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Location: Mull [see below for details]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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“Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag
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Quotation: ubh cliath feannaig. Notes: a hen’s egg which is much undersized.
Origin: Applecross
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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Note: pìos caol fada de thalamh-àitich.
Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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hooded crow.
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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feannag
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[fjɑ̃n̪ɑɡ] Notes: hoodie crow.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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[fȷɑ̃n̪ɑɡ] Note: a lazy-bed.
Origin: Harris, Bays
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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Notes: hoodie-crow.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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Quotation: bodach feannaig.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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Quotation: fuaigheal chasa-feannaig. Notes: criss-cross stiching in the old days put on the border of blankets.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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Quotation: feannag taomaidh. Notes: lazy-bed.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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Quotation: sporan feannaig. Notes: dogfish spawn? Found on seashore.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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similar in length and width [to iomair] and pertaining to croft.
Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag
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Quotation: cas-feannaig. Notes: sewing in a crow-foot pattern.
Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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Notes: lazy-bed.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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Note: small cultivable patch with a ditch on each side of it.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag
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hooded crow.
Origin: [Tiree]
Category: Eòin Thiriodh / Birds of Tiree
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feannag (f) (chorc)
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(general) “Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides. See ‘taomadh’.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag (f), feannagan (pl)
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lazy-bed.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag bheag
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(general) “Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides. See ‘taomadh’.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag taomaidh
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Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannag-thaomaidh
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Notes: a lazy-bed. About 6' wide. Covered with seaweed. Turf divots turned inwards from the two sides till everything was covered with earth. Holes were made with a dibble and potatoes dropped in. In the autumn the divots were turned back to uncover the potatoes.
Location: Skye, Elgol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feannag-thaomaidh
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Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannagan
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lazy beds.
Origin: Na Hearadh [Harris]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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feannagan taomaidh
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Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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leabaidh leisg
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‘Lazy-bed’. As for ‘feannag’.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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leoba
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small patch like a feannag.
Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Cluer
Category: Cruth na Tìre / Landscape Features
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leòba
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(f) An area of arable ground bigger than feannag. A large plot. [NOTES: spelled ‘leoba’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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leòba
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(f) An area of arable ground bigger than feannag. A large plot. [NOTES: spelled ‘leoba’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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leób
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[lʹo:b] Note: a piece of cultivated ground. “Feannag” understood here as being narrower than the “leób”.
Origin: Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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leóba
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(f) An area of arable ground bigger than feannag. A large plot. [NOTES: spelled ‘leoba’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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leóba
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(f) An area of arable ground bigger than feannag. A large plot. [NOTES: spelled ‘leoba’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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leóba
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[lʹo:bə] Note: a squarish field, wider than “feannag” [q.v.].
Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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leóba
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[lʹo:bə] Note: pìos leathann de thalamh-àitich. Nas leathann na feannag [q.v.].
Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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pairce
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Notes: a field (didn’t use terms achadh, feannag).
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Antigonish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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plochd
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Large clod – as used when making ‘feannag’.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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taom
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Quotation: Feannag taomaidh. Notes: lazybed.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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taomadh
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Notes: (Murdo Murray, Back) in sense of shovelling the earth at the sides of the feannagan and in the claisean, on top of the feannagan. Murdo Murray recalls an old woman telling him how she got 1/-6d a day for peat-cutting, but only 1/- a day for taomadh. Dwelly has this sense, without as much detail as above.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
