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badragan
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rags.
Location: South Uist, Frobost
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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broinnteagan
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rags. [NOTES: corrected to ‘brointeagan’.]
Location: South Uist, Frobost
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bàrlagan
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rags.
Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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céise-bal
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[ce:ʃəbɑɫ] Note: ball as used in the game of Cat and Bat (speileaban [q.v.]); sometimes made with rags, sometimes made with the shed hair of cattle in early summer. This was scraped off the beast and made gradually with spits, rolling hair on till it was of the required size. Céise-bal-ghaoisd [ce:ʃəbɑɫɣw:ʃdʹ].
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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dòrnais
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Notes: a torch made from a stick covered with rags at one end and dipped in oil. (Also used for a peat lighted at one end and used for the same purpose.)
Location: Ross-shire, Aultbea
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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iollagan
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rags, odds and ends.
Location: South Uist, South Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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liùbhag (bheag)
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a doll made of rags.
Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig
Category: Cur-seachadan: Dèideagan, Geamaichean is Farpaisean / Recreation: Toys, Games, Contests
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liùghag
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[lʹu̟:ɑɡ] Note: a doll made from rags.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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luideagan
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rags.
Location: South Uist, Frobost
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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piob-a-stillidh
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home-made squirter (for squirting water) made from the bamboo-like stem of above [i.e. stealladair] by means of a thin stick, one end of which was wrapped with rags for use as a plunger, and a section of the stem of the stealladair as the cylinder of the squirt.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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pleideag
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[plɤdʹɑɡ] Quotation: Chaidh e seachad le [plɤdʹɑɡəṉ] air. Notes: rags, tattered clothing.
Location: Sutherland, Durness, Sangomore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ragadair
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Note: (1) a raggedly-dressed person. (2) a person who collects woollen rags, waste yarn, etc.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ragaichean
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rags.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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truidhtearan
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rags.
Location: South Uist, Peninerine
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
