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5. Eadar a’ chluas ’s an adhairc.
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Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[mór]
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Bha e cho mor as fhein is ged a gheibheadh e mart air adhairc. He was as proud as a dog with two tails.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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adhairc
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Quot.: “na h-adhaircean”. Note: iron “hooks” attached to the stempost [sternpost? unclear] of a boat. Sail ropes fixed to them.
Location: Harris, Quidinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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adhairc
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Quotation: Ni mi spàin neo millidh mi adhairc. Notes: It will go one way or the other.
Location: Islay, Port Wemyss
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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adhairc
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Quot.: caora le adhaircean sgaoilt. Note: a sheep with wide horns.
Location: [Lewis], S. Lochs, Gravir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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adhairc
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Quot.: caora le adhaircean chros. Note: sheep with horns curving in towards the face.
Location: [Lewis], S. Lochs, Gravir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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adhairc snaoisain
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a ram or sheep’s horn used to store stuff.
Location: South Uist, South Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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adhaircean
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‘horns’ on either side of the top piece of the stem of the boat to which the bow strip hook is ‘clipped’. I cannot say also at the moment. [NOTES: the slip is among the “Doubtful” words. Catch-word: adhairc.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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adharc
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horn; fog-horn. Séid an adhairc. A horn of a dead cow was used by fishermen when in fog to denote their presence. (Scalpay)
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cha
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Quotation: Cha do dh’fhàg sinn adhairc air damh. Notes: (Keose) The force being ‘So proud we were!’
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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leth-adhairc
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Origin: Barra
Category: Caoraich / Sheep
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sladhag
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Notes: Am droinn adhairc. (The inner sheath, not outer as in Dwelly.) [NOTES: slipped under ‘slabhag’.]
Origin: Kilmaluag
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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spain-adhairc
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spoon made from a horn.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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spainn adhairc
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a spoon made from cattle’s horn.
Location: North Uist, Locheport
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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spàin
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Quotation: Ni mi spàin neo millidh mi adhairc. Notes: I’ll do one thing or the other. It’ll go one way or the other.
Location: Islay, Port Wemyss
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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spàin
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Quotation: spàin adhairc. Notes: horn spoon.
Origin: Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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strathair-chliabh
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pios airneis a laigheadh air druim an eich air son cliabh a ghiulain air gach taobh. Bha’n iris a dol air gach adhairc.
Origin: [Taransay]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
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tigh-na-h-adhairc
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‘fog-horn house’. The way the house on which the fog-horn is cemented is termed by the islanders of Scalpay.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
