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blàr
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“Bha blàr de na h-itean air an liana far an robh an clamhan air calman a spidreadh.”
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clamhan
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buzzard.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clamhan
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Notes: A favourite term of abuse among the Bayble boys. (Not specially ref. to greed.) < clamhan buzzard? Or dimin. of clamh (Ir.) ‘a leper’. This usage not in Dw.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clamhan
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a sickly person or animal.
Location: North Uist, Grimsay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clamhan
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someone who has not progressed in shape or body weight.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clamhan
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buzzard.
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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clamhan
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Notes: buzzard.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clamhan
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(1) Quot.: “an clamhan mór”. Note: buzzard. (2) Quot.: “clamhan nan cearc”. Note: hen harrier.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clamhan
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Notes: buzzard.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clamhan (m), clamhain (pl)
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buzzard.
Origin: [Tiree]
Category: Eòin Thiriodh / Birds of Tiree
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clamhan lòin
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harrier. [NOTES: the original definition crossed out and replaced with ‘buzzard’.]
Category: Eòin / Birds
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clamhan ruadh
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kestrel.
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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clamhan-gobhlach
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kite.
Category: Eòin / Birds
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clamhan-mór
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Note: buzzard.
Origin: Harris, Leverburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gilm
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a buzzard; also clamhan.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
