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crotal n.
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[khrɔhtəʁ̼] ‘lichen used in dyeing’.
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Inverness County, Broad Cove Chapel
Category: Seosamh Watson collection notebook date: Jan-May 1991
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ceangal
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Quotation: (Auntie Bella – Keose) “Bhiodh sùgh freumhaichean nan sealbhag (sorrel) aca a’ ceangal a’ ghuirmein ris a’ chloimh.” Notes: ‘fixing (of dyes)’. By contrast, crotal had its own fixing agent. This precise sense not in Dw.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cloimh liath
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blue mould. Apparently this has healing qualities. Mother of informant used to throw an old boot or shoe into a clump of nettles which was left there till mould gathered on the shoe. Thereafter the mould was scraped off and used as a kind of penicillin to relieve the puss in boils and abscess wounds, swellings, etc. Similarly informant remembers the white of an egg being broken to which fresh unsalted butter and lichen (crotal) was added. Used for healing all kinds of burns.
Location: North Uist, Blàsheabhal [Blashaval]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crotal
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nn ‘lichen’: ‘growing on bark’, dath donn [air]
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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crotal
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[krɔhtəɫ] Notes: grey lichen, makes a brown die.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crotal
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dath ruadh trom dark
Location: [Lewis], Arnol, Bragar and Uigen
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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crotal
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Location: [Lewis], Arnol, Bragar and Uigen
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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crotal
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[khrɔhtəʁ̫] n. ‘species of lichen used in dyeing’
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Inverness Co., Dunvegan
Category: Word List
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crotal
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Notes: used in wool-dyeing – brown.
Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crotal
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brown dye from grey lichens. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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crotal
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Origin: Barra
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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crotal
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Dath crotail. Is ann ruadh, gle ruadh, a bha am fear-sa. Is ann bho chrotal nan clach a bha iad ’ga thabhairt.
Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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crotal
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dark brown [dye]. Lichens scraped from rocks give this dye.
Origin: [Arran]
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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crotal
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lichen.
Origin: [Skye], Gleanndail [Glendale]
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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rùth
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[ru̜:] Notes: long pinkish roots found on the machair – made a reddish-brown dye lighter than crotal.
Location: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
