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brog
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Notes: an awl with a flattened tip.
Location: Coll, Sorrisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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brog
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Notes: awl, shaped like a very thin chisel.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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friodhan
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[fðwɣɑṉ] Note: a tip put on the end of the “sreangan” to go through holes made by the awl more easily, when repairing shoes.
Location: Harris, Grosebay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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frioghan
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Notes: pig’s bristle, put on the end of the “sreangan” in cobbling for easy insertion through holes made by the awl.
Location: Ross-shire, Polbain
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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minidh
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[mĩṉi] Note: a shoemaker’s awl. “Minidh dearcaidh”: the finer-pointed awl for stitching two parts of the uppers together. “Minidh buinn”: an awl with the tip bent used for soling. Sometimes called “minidh crom”.
Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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minidh
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[mĩṉĩ] Notes: small awl, cobbler’s awl, also used by joiners for fine work.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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minidh
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Notes: cobbler’s awl.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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minidh
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[mɛ̃ṉi] Notes: awl.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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minidh
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Awl. Minidh-buinn: [see illustration]. Minidh-beag: [see illustration]. Agus mur a h-eil mi dol ceàrr, cha chreid mi nach canadh iad minidh dearcaidh, cuideachd, ri minidh-beag. Dearcadh – pàirt de an bhròig (de uachdar na bròige).
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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minidh-crom
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Notes: awl with a bent tip used for soling shoes.
Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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minidh-crom
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Notes: awl used for soling shoes.
Location: Skye?, Braes, Baile Meadhonach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
