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8. Autumn work
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Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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8. Autumn work
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Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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8. Autumn work
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Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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8. Autumn work
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Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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8. Autumn work
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Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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[corn]
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Note: seed on corn in autumn was tested by putting a grain in your mouth between the teeth and pressing it as to its resistance. If resisting under the pressure of the tooth as [sic] hard enough by the sensitivity of the testing. Then the corn was ready for cutting.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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a’ cruachadh
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building into seven foot ‘beehive structures’; this will be brought home at the woman’s leisure during good days in Autumn, Winter and Spring; few do this nowadays. Their work on the ‘sliabh’ halts at ‘tòrr’ [q.v.] at which stage the tractor is called into action.
Origin: Leódhas, An Rudha [Lewis, Rudha]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
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brist
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Quotation: na piochdaich a’ bristeadh. Notes: the saithe breaking the surface (in the autumn).
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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caoran-bhiagan
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brambles that can be found on heather in the autumn. Could be eaten. [NOTES: note added above ‘b’ in ‘bhiagan’ – m.]
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cearcall
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[kɛrkɤɫ] [?] Notes: square wooden frame for carrying 2 pails of water; the frame kept the pails from bumping against the carrier’s sides. Common to Embo, Golspie, and Brora. Source: Mr and Mrs Kenneth MacKay, 16 Gate St., Embo. Date: autumn 1967.
Location: Sutherland [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ceathdubhan
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a beast seen in autumn. Black and purple in appearance. Larger than a bee. Had a nest in hay ricks where it stored dead earwigs. [NOTES: note added – variant of ‘ceardubhan’.]
Location: South Uist, Kildonan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clacharan tràigh
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stonechats assembling on the rocks on the shore in the autumn are called this.
Origin: [Kintyre, Tarbert]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crosgagan
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strong winds from the north east in spring and autumn.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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doille
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[d̪ɤlʹə] Note: loss of vision in sheep. Often happened if the autumn was wet. A film over the eyes.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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drèibh
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[d̪ɾɛ:v] Notes: a sluggard, slow-coach; e.g. someone who is always behind with spring work, autumn work.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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duilleagan-seargta
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withered leaves, the withered foliage of trees on the ground in late autumn or in winter. (Unless they are used for manure, mixed into compost?)
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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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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fearadhaire
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two suns. Seen in autumn and taken as a sign of bad weather to follow.
Location: North Uist, Iollaraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feur-dubh
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Notes: meadow or natural grass, usually cut in the late autumn.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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foghar
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Quotation: as t-fhoghar. Notes: in the autumn.
Location: Sutherland, Lochinver, Culkein (Stoer)
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gearradh
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Quotation: a’ cheud ghearradh, an dàrna gearradh. Notes: 4th and 5th years in crop rotation. Not ploughed. Rye grass cut in July and meadow or natural grass (not sown) cut in late autumn.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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liathruisgean
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[lʹıɤɾu̟ʃɡʹəṉ] Quot.: na liathruisgean. Note: according to Calum, spell in autumn when food was very scarce, before the corn and barley had ripened properly.
Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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liathruisgean
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[lʹıɤɾu̟ʃɡʹəṉ] Quot.: na liathruisgean. Note: According to J. N. the lean time in early autumn when the shorter barley growing in shallow ground ripened earlier and was cut to provide food.
Origin: Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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rodhanaich na Samhna
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the calm period at the end of autumn.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ròmhanaich
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[sic] Quotation: Romhanaich na Samhna. Notes: applied to quiet period at the end of autumn.
Location: North Uist, Grimsay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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seacanaich
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[ʃɛkɑṉiç] Quot.: “seacanaich na Samhna”. Note: period of good weather in the late autumn. Indian Summer.
Origin: Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sgìos
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Quot.: “Sgìos airsneulach!” Note: expression used, e.g. when a person came in from a heavy day’s work in autumn.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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slògag
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[sɫɔ:ɡɑɡ] Notes: “slates” made up of small sheaves of corn. The seed was removed and the sheaf tied at the top of the stalks. The bottom part was then spread out like a fan. This was done in autumn. They were then laid in “bundles” of a dozen over the winter. By spring they were placed flat. Put on roof like slates.
Location: Skye, Staffin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sòrnan
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Notes: ray; caught in the autumn inshore.
Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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uisgeachan an fhoghair
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autumn rains which can greatly vary within a small area, e.g. in a village – could be raining at one end and [be] dry, sunny at the other end.
Location: South Uist, South Lochboisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
