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Informant(s)
Name
Angus Martin
Location
Kintyre, Campbeltown
Date
04/04/1976 (letter)
monaisNotes: ‘coarse woolly twine used for setting up nets to ropes’. SND s.v. monish ‘orig. unascertained’.
badQuotation: “We’ll try a bad.” Notes: ‘Shooting overboard 2 or 3 fathoms of net on a breezy night, as a test for presence of herring.’
ceannairNotes: the end of the bridle-rope, which is attached to the wing of the net. (Tarbert)

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