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An Aidbhean
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Advent.
Location: South Uist, Daliburgh
Category: An Eaglais / Ecclesiastical Terms
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La Fheill Chriosda an Righ
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Feast of Christ the King (last Sunday before Advent).
Location: South Uist, Daliburgh
Category: An Eaglais / Ecclesiastical Terms
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airid
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a kind of sofa in old days, prior to the advent of the ‘beinngidh’.
Location: North Uist, Iollathraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach pòisidh
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prior to the advent of modern day wedding cakes, people used to make their own cakes. Mrs C. MacLellan, Lochcarnan, South Uist remembers this tradition too whereby a sponge cake with sultanas was baked covered with icing. [NOTES: ‘pòisidh’ corrected to ‘pòsaidh’.]
Location: Barra, Northbay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gual
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a smudge on the hands or face (not of coal as coal had never been in use of old in Point, Lewis). Anyone having a smudge on the face and not knowing of it would be told: “Cuir do làmh far am beil an gual ort agus gheibh thu do roghainn”. ‘Gual’ is also the black formed on the outside of pots and pans exposed to an open flame. Still also ‘gual’ was the name for cold peat embers. Sgùradh le gual – before the advent of abrasive cleansers, a damp cloth dipped in a very finely crushed cold peat ember would be used on metal in place of sand paper or emery paper. And ‘gual’ for something burnt to a cinder – “Chaidh e ’na ghual dubh.”
Origin: Eileanaich [natives of Lewis]
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
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mini(dh)
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a pin with a wooden handle. Used by cobblers prior to the advent of needles.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
