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Réiteach lion beag

Tha an lion ga dhóirteach a mach as an sguil is ga réiteach innte. Tha chula dubhan ga chur ann an siopaig le ‘Marline Spike Hitch’. Bidh cuid a’ cur an dubhain ann an toinneabh na calp.

Origin: [Lewis], Dail a Tuath or [Lewis], Suaineabost [Swainbost] or [Lewis], Lional
Category: Acfhuinn Iasgaich / Fishing Tackle

[dorman]

In the same book by A. Macpherson [i.e. “Church and Social Life in the Highlands”], p. 403, he gives the word ‘dorman’ which I take to be another name for the fish known as pike. But I was unable to get this meaning confirmed by any of the old people in the district.

Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

annspéic

handspike. This is a word that was applied to the early form of a protruding piece of wood or iron in connection with a bier used in Harris, when people used to carry the bier on their shoulders on the way to the churchyard; or a spike of some other notable use (not heard on Scalpay now), towards the same purpose, or possibly could be used apart from this act.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

anspach

marlinspike. Used for separating strands of rope in splicing.

Location: North Uist, [Carinish], Cnoc Cuidhein [Knockquien]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

anspeicean

handspikes, used for carrying the dead, the coffin to a cemetery. The coffin was borne on the shoulders on the handspikes.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

anspicean

[ɑṉspicəṉ] Note: funeral bier (handspikes?).

Location: Harris, Quidinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

a’ bhiorach

spiked dog-fish.

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bior-chrith

Notes: iron spike, e.g. for making holes in zinc.

Location: Raasay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

biorach

Notes: calf’s spiked muzzle.

Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

biorach

Notes: spiked calf muzzle.

Location: Sutherland, Kinlochbervie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

biorach

Notes: spiked muzzle put on a calf.

Location: Sutherland, Durness, Laide, Portnacon
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

biorach

[biɾɔx] Notes: spiked muzzle put on calf to prevent it suckling its mother.

Origin: Bunloit
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

biorach

Notes: spiked muzzle put on calves to prevent them from suckling.

Origin: Culkein
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

biorag

Notes: spiked muzzle put on calf to prevent it suckling.

Origin: Nethy Bridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

biorraiche

[bjwriçə] Notes: spiked muzzle to prevent calf from suckling.

Origin: Strontian
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

busag

spiked halter.

Origin: Geàrrloch [Gairloch]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

bùthach

[bu̟:hɔx] Notes: spiked muzzle put on a calf.

Location: Raasay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

carran-creigeadh

[kɑrɑṉ kɾeɟəɣ] Notes: small ugly fish full of spikes. Usually rejected. [NOTES: slipped under ‘carran-creige’.]

Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cliath

Quotation: Fiaclan cléithidh. Notes: harrow spikes.

Origin: Bayhead
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

crocan

spikes put on a calf to keep it from sucking.

Origin: ([Canada], Inverness Co.) or ([Canada], Inverness Co.) or ([Canada], Victoria Co.)
Category: Crodh / Cattle

cròcach

[kɾɔ:xkɑx] Notes: put on calf to prevent it suckling. Usually a leather muzzle with a spike on it.

Location: Skye, Glasnakille
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cròcach

[kɾɔ:xkɑx] Notes: apparatus with spikes attached to it which was fitted over a calf’s mouth (or head) to prevent it from suckling its mother.

Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cròcaid

Notes: arrangement put on calf’s mouth to prevent suckling. Spiked. Also cròcach.

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cròcan

spiked instrument [attached to a calf’s mouth to prevent its sucking its mother].

Origin: Barra
Category: Crodh / Cattle

cròchdan (m)

instrument, usually spiked, attached to a calf’s mouth to prevent its sucking its mother.

Origin: Mull, Bunessan, Ardtun or Mull, Tobermory
Category: Crodh / Cattle

crògach

[kɾɔ:ɡɔx] Notes: spiked muzzle put on calves.

Location: Tiree, Cornaigbeg
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dealgan

Notes: spike on which spool goes in a shuttle.

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fiacail

Notes: spike on harrow.

Location: Skye, Glasnakille
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fiacal

Quotation: Fiaclan cléithidh. Notes: harrow spikes.

Origin: Bayhead
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fiacal

[fıɤkəɫ] Notes: spike in harrows.

Origin: Bunloit
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

geadag

grilse or pike?

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

geadas

[ɡed̪əs] Notes: pike.

Location: Invergarry, North Laggan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

geadas

[ɡʹɛd̪s] Notes: pike.

Origin: Drumguish, by Kingussie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

geadas

Notes: pike (fish).

Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

geadas (-ais)

pike fish.

Origin: Baleshare
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

geadasg

[ɡɛ̜:ˈtask] pike. [SLIP: pike (fish).]

Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle

geadraisg

Pike (iasg).

Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

liaradh

used for winding the spun yarn. It had 3 spokes underneath a roundish piece of wood with a spike at the top where two long bits of wood were laid crossways with holes in them and with wooden pins in the holes to keep the hank until it was wound into a ball.

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

morgh

[mɔrɔ] barbed spike for spearing salmon.

Location: Glen Lyon
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

màl-spìc

marling [sic] spike.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

màrlspàic

an iron spike tapering at one end. Used for splicing wire. Also had wooden equivalent for splicing rope.

Location: South Uist, South Lochboisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

proca

spike, long-toothed harrows, etc; hence procach – 1 year stag (Sutherland).

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

pìg

[pi:ɡʹ] Notes: the pike (fish).

Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgeit-bhàn

Note: a type of skate which, he says, has a tail with no spikes on it. Very good to eat.

Location: [Lewis], [S.] Lochs, Gravir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

soucein

instrument, usually spiked, attached to a calf’s mouth to prevent its suckling its mother.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

spidean

Notes: a spike or any small pointed object.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

spìc

Quot.: na “spìcean” [spı:cəṉ]. Note: the spikes in a harrow.

Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

staingean

spikes on top of creel for breast band.

Location: Lewis, Carloway
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working

stroinan

spiked instrument to prevent the calf sucking its mother.

Origin: [the questionnaire gives Ross-shire but it is most probably meant as the county not origin]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

suircean

Note: spiked muzzle on a calf to prevent it suckling its mother.

Location: [Lewis], S. Lochs, Gravir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

suircean

[su̟ðcɑṉ] Note: spiked muzzle put on a calf to prevent it suckling its mother. Sometimes put on older beast which had a habit of eating the hair of other beasts.

Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

tarag

[t̪ɑɾɑɡ] Quotation: tarag cliath. Notes: spike of harrows.

Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous