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--blank--: fringe on horse. [NOTES: there is no headword for this definition unless it is meant to be ‘gearran’ above.]
Location: Harris, Leverburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
(a) The harness of a horse as used in the performance of different tasks: Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(a) The harness of a horse as used in the performance of different tasks: Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(a) The harness of a horse as used in the performance of different tasks: Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(a) The harness of a horse as used in the performance of different tasks: Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(a) The harness of a horse as used in the performance of different tasks: Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
2. Harness of a horse: Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
2. Harness of a horse: Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
2. Harness of a horse: Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
2. Harness of a horse: Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
2. Harness of a horse: Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
9. Diagram of Horse and Cart.: Location: North Uist
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
Bha i ’san treas: an extra horse needed to pull a heavy load.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[Horse]: Origin: Barra
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
[amull]: Amull mór – used with one horse. Amull beag – used with two horses.
Origin: Na Hearadh [Harris]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
[caora]: An uncompleted proverb: “A chaora, na loisg mo chnamhan, ’s na sgàin mo sheice ars an t-each.” There was also a section dealing with cattle. As regards the horse, his skin could not be easily repaired if it was torn.
Location: South Uist, West Kilbride
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[each]: Thoir comas cinn do’n each. Give the horse its head.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[hup] and: [vai:n] [calls to horse used when] ploughing, to go one way (furrow) and then the other (rig). Not know which. [NOTES: slipped under [v[ai]:n]. Definition: one of the calls (the other being [həp]) to a horse when ploughing, to tell it to go to furrow or rig. Not known which is which.]
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
[hɤp]: Notes: instruction to a horse to turn left.
Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[prui-seog]: While on the subject of calling animals, the word used here for calling a horse was ‘prui-seog’, the ‘og’ the same as in ‘òg’.
Origin: Inverness-shire, Nethy Bridge
Category: Crodh / Cattle
[prɔkʹ]: [call to a] horse (to come to you). [NOTES: the slip has [prɔˈki].]
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
[pɾi:ʃo]: Notes: call to a horse.
Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[strathair]: Different types of saddle: – strathair cartach – strathair gige [?] – strathair plàta (used when the horse was carrying baskets).
Location: South Uist, Iochdar, Baile Gharbhaidh [Balgarva]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[vẽ:nʹ]: Notes: instruction to a horse to turn right. (a’ mhàin?)
Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
acainn: [ɑ˖xkɑ̣˖nʹ] Notes: equipment for yoking a horse, tools [?] of any kind.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ag aontrachadh: a horse frolicking with all four legs in the air.
Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
aghastar: [ɤəst̪əɾ] Notes: horse halter made of twisted birch wands.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
aiceachd (f): training, guidance; each-aice – a led horse.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
air: Quotation: Chaidh an t-each air a cholainn. Notes: the horse overturned.
Origin: Bunloit
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
am bioraiche: a young animal, possibly a horse. In my young days, a young man bore that nickname.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
an cnàmh-rionnach: horse-mackerel.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
aoirneagan: wallowing, tumbling, rolling, as horse, calf, etc.; faonagraich (Lewis), ionnfairt (Irish).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
aonagraich: Quot.: each ga aonagraich fhéin. Note: a horse wallowing on its back.
Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
aonragaich: horse rolling over to scratch its back.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
aonraich: Quotation: Bha e ga [w̃:ṉɾɑɡəɣ] fhéin. Notes: horse wallowing on its back on the ground.
Location: Invergarry, North Laggan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
aonraigich: rolling over. A horse scratching its back. Tha an t-each ga aonraigich fhein.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
a’ bhoill: a disease affecting the head of the horse. Its symptoms were an acute form of dizziness which resulted in death. The illness had a plant or root as its origin. [NOTES: corrected to ‘a’ bhoil’.]
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
a’ toirt an eich as an chairt: Release the horse. [NOTES: ‘thoir an t-each as a’ chairt’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
bacan: Notes: tethering pin usually for a horse or cow (cf. cipean).
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bacman: [bɑxkmɑ̃ṉ] Quotation: am bacman. Notes: strap over the back of the horse to keep the “drag chains” from falling down when the horse turns.
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
beartachadh: Putting horse in cart and adjusting harness.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
beartachadh: Putting horse in cart and adjusting harness.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
beul: Quotation: beul salach. Notes: swelling of the gums in horses, usually the top gum extending downwards and the horse couldn’t eat. Cut out, sometimes with a hot iron.
Location: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
beò: Quotation: Bheir an aire nach cuir thu an tarann ’s a’ bheò. Notes: when shoeing a horse.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
biorach: Notes: two-year-old horse (male or female).
Location: Skye, Glasnakille
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
biorach: Notes: a horse over one year old.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bleoghain: Quotation: a’ bleoghain [ə blʹẹəʔẹnʹ]. Notes: milking a cow, sheep or horse.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
blàr: [bɫɑ:ɾ] Quot.: each blàr. Note: a horse with a white patch running from the forehead down the ridge of the nose. Also bó bhlàr, a’ bhó bhlàr.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bodach: Notes: a stick placed behind the horse and attached to panniers on either side by lengths of rope to prevent them from swinging forward when the horse was descending a slope.
Origin: Skye, Torrin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bodhar: [b̥ɔuʷər] horse – word from an old song.
Location: Tummel and Rannoch
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bodragan: Notes: belt round behind the horse and round its tail attached to panniers to prevent them from swinging forward when the horse lowers its head.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
botrachan: a bit of wood under the tail of a horse.
Location: Eriskay, Taobh na Mara
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
botrachan: [bɔt̪ɾɑxɑṉ] Notes: hind-strap on a horse.
Location: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
botrachan: served the purpose of balancing and distributing the weight which a horse would bear. Went under the tail and was tied to the baskets on each side of a horse.
Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
braghaid: [bɾ[ɤı]dʹ] Notes: horse-collar.
Location: Skye, Staffin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
braighde: Collar for a horse. [NOTES: spelled ‘braighd’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
braighdeach: Horse-collar made of straw or bent-grass.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
brangas: [bɾɛ̃ŋɡəs] Notes: headpiece put on horses when tethered. It consisted of a piece of wood coming down each of the horse’s cheeks, with a rope joining them underneath. The tether rope was attached in such a way that when the horse pulled at the tether the pieces of wood tightened on its cheeks and forced it to stop pulling.
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
braoidseach: a bridled horse.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
breideach: Special collar made for young horse – to ‘temper’ the shoulders.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
briogais: “Breeching”; straps (collectively) over the hind quarters of the horse.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
briogais: “Breeching”; straps (collectively) over the hind quarters of the horse.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
briogais: on the side of the horse, used when pulling a cart.
Origin: Na Hearadh [Harris]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
briogan: Notes: breeches (horse).
Origin: Glenlyon
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
brog (f): hoof (horse).
Origin: Tiree
Category: Crodh / Cattle
broid: Collar for a horse.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
broide: horse collar.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
broilleach: [bɾɔlʹɑx] Notes: breast (of a horse).
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
broineag: [bɾɔ̃nʹɑɡ] Notes: a small ill-fed horse.
Location: North Uist, Bayhead, Kylis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bràghaid: [bɾ[ɤı]dʹ] Notes: collar of the horse.
Origin: Skye, Torrin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buntàta: Quotation: sgadan bhuntàta. Notes: herring caught for horse consumption.
Location: Kenmore, Fearnabeg (Shieldaig? – on one of the slips)
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bàn: Quotation: Each air a’ bhàn ’s each as a chlais. Notes: when ploughing, one horse in furrow, the other on part still unturned.
Location: Tiree, Caolis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cabastair: a special rein for horses that were difficult to control. Had two bits of wood, one on each side of the horses’s face, which could be tightened so as to hurt and thereby control the horse.
Location: South Uist, South Lochboisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
caidhligeadh: racing, as in horse racing.
Location: North Uist, Tigharry
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
caileaba: used of an awkward and temperamental horse. Also used for human equivalent.
Location: North Uist, Grimsay, Cnoc Cuidhein [Knockquien]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cairt: Quotation: slaod-chairt. Notes: horse drawn sledge. Essentially the same as a cart with no wheels.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
caoch: Quotation: a’ gabhail a’ chaoich. Notes: bolting (horse).
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
car: Quotation: Chaidh mi ’n car each. Notes: I bought a horse.
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cart: [kɑ˖ʂt] Quotation: a cart for a horse. [NOTES: slipped under ‘cairt’.]
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cas: Quotation: na casa’ cinn. Notes: forelegs of a horse.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
casa-góblaigean: open legged, as riding a horse. Bha e casa-goblagain [sic] air a mhuin. [NOTES : slipped under ‘casa-góbhlagan’. Quotation: Bha e casa-góbhlaigean [sic] air a mhuin. Definition: Astride.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ceann-iomaire: Quotation: an ceann-iomaire. Notes: the area used by a horse for turning. At the end of the day these would also be ploughed. One acre a day was considered good work for two horses and a man.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ceannamhag: [cɑ̃n̪əvɑɡ] Notes: where the horse turns when ploughing. (also in Durness)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
claidsdail: Clydesdale (horse).
Location: South Uist, Stilligarry
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
clais: Quotation: each air a’ bhàn ’s each as a’ chlais. Notes: when ploughing, one horse in the furrow, the other on uncultivated part.
Location: Tiree, Caolis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
clamadh: castration by tying horse hair around the scrotum.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cleitreach: Quotation: cleitreach (Tong), cleidreach (Keose). Notes: Clumsy woman (also used in Tong in sense of an old horse). Not in Dw.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cliabh: Creel for carrying seaweed – one on each side of horse. Also cliabh bhuntàta.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cliath: harrow. Consisted of four wooden main beams with six cross beams. Probably eight tines (iron) in each row, about 32 tines each placed so that they ran in different runs. Pulled by one horse with one amal beag.
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cliath: Quotation: a’ chliath chrom. Notes: this implement consisted of two small harrows chained together each with a handle and both held by a man as if ploughing. They were pulled by one horse and eased the tops of the drills to let the “barran” through.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cnagan: bits of wood that were part of the tether on a horse. The bits of wood were on each side of the horse’s face and when the horse tugged at the tether the wood tightened on each side.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cnaimh rionnach: horse mackerel.
Location: Cluer
Category: Maorach / Shellfish
cnaimh-rionnach: [kɾɛ̃:vrũ̜n̪ɑx] Note: horse-mackerel.
Origin: Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cnaimh-runnach: [kɾɛ̃:vrũ̜n̪ɑx] Notes: horse-mackerel.
Location: Skye, Harlosh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cnaimh-runnach: Notes: horse mackerel.
Location: Glendale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cnaimh-runnach: Notes: horse-mackerel.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cnaimh-runnach: [kɾɛ̃:rũ̜n̪ɑx] Note: horse-mackerel.
Location: [Lewis], S. Lochs, Gravir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cnodhan: hoofs of a horse.
Location: North Uist, Grimsay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
colainn: [kɔɫĩnʹ] Quotation: Chaidh an t-each air a cholainn. Notes: The horse overturned.
Origin: Bunloit
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
crann Gallda: all iron, 2 horse plough with steel mould board (sgiath).
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
crann Gàidhealach: all iron 2 horse plough with cast iron mould board (sgiath). Had wooden handles locally made.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
crann beag (Oliver): the small common Highland plough of wood and iron and pulled by one horse suitable for stony crofts such as we have in Lewis.
Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
crann fiodha: Wooden plough used up to about 1920, pulled by horse or men.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
crann-slaod: [kɾɑ̃n̪sɫw:d̪] Notes: sledge pulled by a horse. Usually “càrn-slaod”.
Location: Skye, Glasnakille
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
craoidh: horse shoe.
Origin: Barra
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
creileag: [krẹẹlɑ˖ɡ] Notes: a horse fly.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
creithire: [kɾeʔeɾə] Notes: horse-fly; cleg. (Same as “greimeadair” in Lewis.)
Location: Islay, Bowmore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
creàmh-rionnach: horse mackerel.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
crith-eich: horse shoes.
Location: Harris, Leverburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
croinn fhiodha: Wooden plough used up to about 1920, pulled by horse or men. [NOTES: spelled ‘crann fiodha’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cruid: horse shoe but cruid na bròige. [SLIP: Horse-shoe. Also: cruid na bròige.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cruinn-leum: Quotation: Bha an t-each ’na cruinn-leum. Notes: The horse was galloping.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cràbhairneach: [kɾɛ:vəɾnʹɑ̃x] Notes: horse mackerel.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cuigealach: greater horse tail.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cuileag-each: [ku̜lɑɡjɑx] Notes: horse-fly.
Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cuileag-each: horse-fly.
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
cuir ’sa chairt: Tying horse in cart.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cur an eich do’n cairt: putting horse in cart.
Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cur an t’ each an’ uidheam: [?] put the harness on the horse.
Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cur an t’ each do’n cairt: put the horse in the cart.
Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
càrn chlach: Quotation: càrn [kɑɑ˖ɾn] chlach. Notes: sledge for drawing stone after a horse, 3 to 4 wide.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
càrn chlach: Quotation: le càrn [kɑ̟:rn̪] air a’ slaodadh as deidh each. Notes: horse sledge, 3'-4' broad, with an attachment in the front.
Location: Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
càrn-slaod: Notes: horse-drawn sledge with a box like an ordinary cart.
Location: Ross-shire, Gairloch
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
càrn-slaod: Notes: horse-drawn sledge.
Origin: Bunloit
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
càrn-slaod: Notes: a horse-drawn sledge.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
càrn-slaodaidh: Notes: sledge (horse drawn).
Origin: Coigach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
deadhann: [ˈdʹeən̪] Note: rope tied between two front legs of a horse. Prevented it from running.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
deadhann: [ˈdʹeən̪] Note: hobble put on a horse – between front legs.
Origin: [Lewis], Uig, Valtos
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
di leum: a fetter put on the front feet of a horse.
Location: North Uist, Grimsay, Gearradh Dubh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
dromanach: Quotation: an dromanach [əndrọmɑnɑx]. Notes: the strap which supported the trams on to the horse.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
druimeachan: Backband (of horse) when ploughing.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
druimeal: Backband (of horse) when ploughing or harrowing. Also: rigwiddie.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
druimeal: [d̪ɾĩmɑɫ] Notes: back-chain on a horse when pulling a cart.
Location: Sutherland, Durness, Sangomore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
druimeal: Backband (of horse) when ploughing or harrowing. Also: rigwiddie.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
duan (m): Quotation: Tha esan air an aon duan. Notes: on his hobby-horse.
Location: Harris, Ardhasaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
duirn: two chains on the side of the horse. They were tied to the ‘trampsaidh’. [NOTES: corrected to ‘dùirn’.]
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
dà-bhliadhnach: [d̪ɔ:vlw̃n̪ɑx] Notes: two year old horse.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
déadhann: [dʹe:ən̪] Notes: hobble between two front legs of a horse.
Location: Ross-shire, Achnahaird
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
déadhann: [dʹe:ən̪] Notes: hobble put on a horse.
Location: Ross-shire, Dornie, Morvich
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
dìleum: handicap for a horse.
Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
eacarsaich: [ɛkəʴsiç] Notes: struggling in difficulties, e.g. when a horse is in difficulties after the cart has upturned. [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]
Location: Romasdal
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
each: horse.
Location: Argyll, Tarbert, Muasdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
each a bha doirbh a’ shàideadh: a boisterous, excited horse which was difficult to control. [NOTES: note added above ‘shàideadh’ – shaighdeadh.]
Location: South Uist, South Lochboisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
each a’ spreathadh: a horse bolting caused by excitement.
Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
each diollaid: riding horse.
Location: Harris, Leverburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
each giorragach: a horse that was difficult to control and prone to bolting.
Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
each marcachd: riding horse.
Location: Harris, Leverburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
each seabhaid: Notes: a stray horse. Adj. sea(bh)dail/seo(bh)dail.
Location: Skye, Strath
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
each sgiuramach: used for an excitable horse.
Location: North Uist, Iollaraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
each teichidh: a horse which is liable to flee.
Location: North Uist, Tigharry
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
each-cruidheach: hoof-plated horse. [SLIP: Hooved horse.]
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
fiannach: long, white grass found on moorland in soft, boggy land. Used as horse feed during bad weather when other foodstuffs were scarce.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
flagais: manure (horse, cattle). Mixed with seaweed and used for oats only. [Corca-flagais.]
Origin: Na Hearadh [Harris]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
frasach: [fɾɑsɑx] Notes: slatted wooden horse-box for feeding in stable. Fixture.
Location: Skye, Glasnakille
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
frasach: box used for horse feed.
Origin: Na Hearadh [Harris]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
fuasgail: Unyoke (horse).
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
fuidhainn: a blister on the inside of the leg, gained as a result of horse-riding.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
fàladaireachd: riding a horse. “Bha mi muigh a fàladaireachd air an each.”
Location: North Uist, Sollas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
gabh: Quotation: a’ gabhail a’ chaoich. Notes: bolting (horse).
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
gabh (v): yoke (as horse).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
gabh droma: Backband (of horse) as used when ploughing.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
gabh droma: Backband (of horse) as used when ploughing.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
gean chno faidhaich: [sic] horse chestnut.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
glagaidh-shomh (?): Notes: (Keose) a buffoon, fool (used e.g. of a person with a loud laugh and a ‘baw’/‘baa’ face). Not in Dw. Relate to glag ‘horse-laugh’ etc.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
grafann (f), graifne: horse-racing (Old Tales).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
gre rionnach: horse mackerel.
Location: Harris, Sgarastamhor
Category: Maorach / Shellfish
greallag (f), greallagan (pl): swingle trees. Swingle trees in two horse ploughing / harrowing composed of three main components: 2 ‘greallagan’ (nearer horses) and 1 ‘amall’ (nearer plough / harrow – bigger and heavier). But if only one horse used, then one ‘greallag’ used.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
greimeadair: Note: horse-fly.
Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
greimeadair: Note: a horse-fly.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
horse drawn: Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
huisteir: Notes: call for a horse: < O.N. hestr.
Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
huistir: [hıʃtʹəɾ] Quot.: Huistir, huistir! Note: call to a horse.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
innear-each (f): horse manure.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
inneir: dung (horse, cow or sheep dung).
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
iris: (f) (of creel) 1. Shoulder straps (horse hair). 2. Rope fitting to creel – for carrying. See diag [NOTES: probably refers to a diagram provided by the informant.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
iris: (f) (of creel) 1. Shoulder straps (horse hair). 2. Rope fitting to creel – for carrying.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
iris cléibh: made of horse hair long ago.
Location: Lewis, Arnol
Category: Crodh / Cattle
iung: [ȷɛ̃ɣ] Quot.: “Bheir mise ort gu sìn thu d’iungan [d̪ȷɛ̃ɣəṉ].” Note: “I’ll make you get a move on.” Seems to be synonymous with “casan” here but “iung” is used as the triangular piece of cloth sewn into a garment (e.g. a skirt) to let it out. Also used of a horse kicking – “Leig e [ȷɛ̃ɣ].”
Origin: Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
langaid: [ɫɑŋɡɑdʹ] Quotation: a’ cur langaid air an each. Notes: fetter put on the front legs of a horse. (H. Meek says it was put on sheep too.)
Location: Tiree, Cornaigbeg
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
laomadh: horse when irritated.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
loidhneachan: ropes that were tied to the bit in a horse’s mouth. Held by the ploughman at the plough’s handles. Used to steer and turn the horse in the necessary direction.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
losgann: sledge (horse-drawn).
Location: Glendale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
losgann: Notes: sledge – could be drawn by man or horse.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
losgann: [ɫɔ̣sɡəṉ] Notes: sledge for drawing stone [sic] behind a horse.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
lothag: [ɫɔhɑɡ] Note: used for a young horse.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
lurgann: Notes: between the knee and fetlock of a horse.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
làraidh: Chan eil móran each a’ dol an diugh an àite sam bith, cò dhiù mu ghabhas e seachnadh. Ach am bheil fhios aca de an fhìor rud a th’ ann horse-power? Cha robh duine de an obair mhóir a bh’aca ann an Aird Uige uaireigin a bha comasach air a’ cheist fhuasgladh, agus bràthair dhomh ’n am measg. ’Se mise a thachair a bhith comasach airson fuasgladh a thoirt dhaibh. Thug mi dhaibh togail 33,000 punnd aon troigh ann an aon mhionaid. Gheibh sibh an aon suidheachadh aig daoine ’s a’ bhaile-sa fhéin. Bha fear ag argumaid rium aig Kelvindale nach robh a leithid a rud agus differential ann an càr. Gu robh easan air a bhith a’ draibheadh fad bhliadhnachan.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
madadh: Horse mussel. A large overgrown mussel, but they don’t grow in big clumps like the mussels. Tha iad math ri ’n itheadh. Bidh muinntir Uig a’ toirt dhachaidh nan cléibh dhuibh [sic], ga slaopadh, is an deidh sin ga ròsdadh an geir air a’ phana. Chan eil iad anns an Rudha no ’n Nis, is e cor fhear a gheibhear suas an Taobh Siar.
Location: Lewis, Port of Ness, Lionel
Category: Maorach / Shellfish
madadh: horse mussel.
Location: Isle-of-Lewis, Shawbost
Category: Maorach / Shellfish
madadh: [mɑ̃d̪əɣ] Note: horse mussel.
Origin: Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
madaidh: horse-mussel.
Location: An t-Eilean Sgiathanach, Portrìgh [Skye, Portree]
Category: Maorach / Shellfish
maide eich: a twitch used for controlling a horse when it was being shod. Made of a wooden handle with a rope at one end attached to the horse’s face. When it was twisted, it tightened so as to hurt the horse.
Location: South Uist, South Glendale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
maide-tóin-eich: Notes: stick fixed behind the horse with ropes from it attached to baskets or bags hanging on pack saddles to prevent them from swinging forward when going downhill.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
maoladh a chluasan: like a horse showing anger by flattening the ears.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
maothan: the tender bit at the bottom of a horse’s foot. Could be painful if a horse was badly shod.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
mearcadan: Quotation: pl. na mearcadain. Notes: eggs laid on the hair of horse’s legs; licked by the horse; lodge on the wall of stomach until fully fed. Seems to be eggs of the horse bot fly. Horse sometimes given “bralais” and then purged with a mixture of turpentine and linseed oil.
Location: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
meilleag: rope tied round the lower jaw of horse.
Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
na gaidheachan: guys (for preventing horses from separating too much in two-horse ploughing).
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
odaigh: going back to the Feast Days when horse racing was a prominent activity. This word means a horse race.
Location: North Uist, Iollaraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
peinnteall: a snare made by horse hair on a frame to catch small birds.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
peinteall: trap for catching birds, made with horse hair in a frame.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
priobairean: blinders for a horse.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
rabhann: great horse tail.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
racan mor: Horse drawn rake. [NOTES: spelled ‘racan mór’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
ralls: [rɑu̜ɫs] Notes: ralls laimheadh – hand rake; ralls each – horse rake.
Origin: Gigha
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
rasal mór: Horse or tractor drawn rake.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
rasal mór: [rɑ̃səɫ mo̜r] Notes: a horse drawn hay rake, also rasal each.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
rionnach-clabach (m): horse-mackerel. (Éir.)
Location: ? [Eriskay – see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ropa: Quotation: ròpa [sic] brùghnaich [rɔpəbɾũ̟:ṉiç]. Notes: belly rope on a horse. (From “brùgh”?)
Location: Tiree, Cornaigbeg
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ruith bheag, mhór: specified distance for horse races set out on appropriate machair land.
Location: North Uist, Iollaraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
runnach clappach: horse mackerel.
Origin: Barra
Category: Acfhuinn Iasgaich / Fishing Tackle
runnach eich: 104 [Scad or Horse Mackerel].
Location: Mull [see below for details]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
runnach eich, r. dubh, r. ciuil, an cnàimh r.: 104 [Scad or Horse Mackerel].
Location: Mull [see below for details]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
runnach-cruaidh: [rw̃ṉɑxkɾu̟ɤi] Notes: horse mackerel.
Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
réir (sic): Quotation: (1) Fhuair an t-each ma réir. [mɑ̃:ɾe:ɾ] (2) Tha a’ chonnlach ma réir. Notes: (1) The horse broke free. (2) The straw is loose, untied.
Location: Tiree, Cornaigbeg
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ròine: nn ‘horse hair’: chunna mi ~ suainte mu phost
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
sachd: Bundle tied on each side of the saddle of a horse. [NOTES: ‘sac(hd)’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
saic: a basket on each side of a horse. Used for carrying peat.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgaoimail: applied to a horse that was excitable, frightened. [NOTES: corrected to ‘sgaoimeil’.]
Location: South Uist, Peninerine
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgaoiman [sic]: applied to a horse that was unwilling to pull a cart. A horse that always wanted to break loose.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgiansgarachd: refers to a horse being frightened or sidetracked during ploughing.
Location: South Uist, Milton
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgoilteadh: informant uses this to mean your chest. Cited example of a horse stuck in a bog, being submerged completely up to his chest – “suas gu sgoilteadh”.
Location: South Uist, Lochcarnan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
siotar: a horse neigh.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sitearraich: [ʃitʹʃəri] Notes: noise made by horse blowing hard through the nostrils.
Origin: Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sitir: Quotation: sitir eich. Notes: the neigh of a horse.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
siullachain: hames for a horse.
Origin: [Note: From North Uist, information from Alex O’Henley / RÓM 4 Dec 2023]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
siullachan: wooden hames. They were used for ploughing. Part of horse equipment.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
slaod-chairt: Quotation: slaod-chairt. Notes: horse-drawn sledge. Essentially the same as a cart with no wheels.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
slaod-chairt: Notes: horse drawn sledge, essentially the same as a cart without wheels.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
slaodag: Notes: a horse-drawn sledge.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
slaodag: Notes: horse-drawn sledge. (Kenmore)
Origin: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
slinnean (f), slinneanan (pl): shoulder of horse.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Crodh / Cattle
sléiteag: [ʃlʹe:tʹɑɡ] Notes: horse-drawn sledge.
Location: Ross-shire, Gairloch
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
smeachan: strap round the neck of the horse.
Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
smeachan: jaw-strap for a horse.
Location: North Uist, Scolpaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
smuigean: Strap below jaw (of horse).
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
snòt: [sn̪ɔ:t̪] Notes: a long horse hair.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sorachan: Notes: rest on which horse’s hoof was put when shoeing. (Dwelly – horse block.)
Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sporadh: Quotation: a’ sporadh an eich. Notes: goading on the horse.
Location: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
srap na briogais: Strap through which the tail (of horse) passes. (See diagram) [NOTES: most probably refers to a diagram provided by the informant, although it could also refer to the diagram on the last page of Mr MacDonald’s “Scottish Gaelic Vocabulary of Agriculture”.] [NOTES: ‘strap na briogais’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
srathair: [sra:ər] pad on back of work-horse, saddle. [SLIP: pannier-saddle on work-horse.]
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
srian: Quotation: srian gaosaid. Notes: reins made of horse hair.
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
srian bheag: a shorter rein used to train a young horse. Prevented escape.
Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sronain: Strap across nose (of horse). [NOTES: spelled ‘sroinean’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
stallan: male horse. [NOTES: note added – (from stallion).]
Location: Eriskay, Taobh na Mara
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
stallan: a horse that has not been castrated.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
strannail: Notes: snorting (e.g. a horse).
Location: Sutherland, Bettyhill, Swordly
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
strap droma: Back-band (of horse) as used when ploughing.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
strap-broinn: Notes: belly-band of a horse.
Location: Invergarry, North Laggan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
strian: reins of a horse.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
stroinean: Strap across nose (of horse).
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
stròinein: a strap across the nose of a horse.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
stròinein: strap across the nose of the horse.
Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
stàg: bar attached to bit by chain and situated below jaw so as to control horse.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
stàile: [sṯɑ:lə] Notes: stall for each horse in a stable.
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sugan: Collar (of horse). [NOTES: spelled ‘sùgan’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
sùgan: [su̟u̟ɡ̊ɑ˖n] Notes: a horse collar.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sùgan: [su:ɡ̊ɑ̟n] Notes: horse collar.
Location: Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sùgan: Notes: horse-collar.
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sùgan: Quotation: sugan [sic] àrd. Notes: high horse collar. Built up high at the top and dressed.
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sùgan: Quotation: sùgan ìosal. Notes: ordinary working collar for a horse. (See sùgan àrd.)
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sùgan: Notes: horse collar.
Origin: Tiree?
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
tadhd: belts around the head of horse. (H)
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
taod: Notes: halter for cow or horse.
Location: Sutherland, Kinlochbervie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
taod: Quotation: an taod. Notes: halter on a horse.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
taod: rope put round the head of a cow or horse.
Origin: Na Hearadh [Harris]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
tarruinn thoiseach: Shoulder draught chains (of horse). [NOTES: spelled ‘taruinn thoiseach’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
tilp: bite from a horse.
Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
toirt an eich as a cairt: releasing horse from cart.
Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
toll-each: [t̪oˈɫɛx] Note: the opening at the end of a byre to allow a horse and cart to back in for manure.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
treabhailairean: on each side of the horse when pulling a cart. This device was responsible for balancing the weight on either side of the horse. Had three hooks on both sides. One of these connected with the breeches, another to the back strap ‘druim’ and another to [sic].
Location: South Uist, South Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
treabhallairean: the chains stretching between the cart and the horse.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
troch: [t̪ɾɔx] Quotation: an troch. Notes: horse-trough.
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
trotan: Quot.: “Tha e na throtan”. Note: applied to a horse trotting or easy running by a person.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
tuairnich: [t̪ũɑ̃ʴnʹiç] Quotation: “Tuairnich an t-each as a chàrr.” Notes: Take the horse out of the cart. Pr. pt. a’ [t̪u̜ɤʴṉɑxkĩnʹ]. [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]
Origin: Bunloit
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
uchd leum: a way of jumping onto a horse. Lands flat stomached on the horse and then swings the legs over.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
urchall: [wɾwxwɫ] Notes: hobble put on two front legs of a horse.
Location: Sutherland, Kinlochbervie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
àigeach: Notes: 2-3 year old horse.
Location: Sutherland, Durness, Sangomore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
éiseach: [ẹ̇ẹ̇ʃəx] Notes: a belt which when yoked for a machine or light cart passed under the tail and joined the srathair on a horse.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

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