| [note] | [NOTES: the following three items squeezed in on the title page.] |
| ceana chasach | sheep’s head and trotters. |
| caisean (uchd) | strip 4 in wide cut of breast of ‘mult’ above the ‘a mhaothain’ (solar plexus) right down to the crotch to enable the butcher to get into the belly cavity. |
| snàil marag | Mixture: oatmeal, suet, salt etc., kneaded inside the cavity made while carcase was still warm. Skin of marag was the anal canal turned inside out and thoroughly washed. Mixture was pressed into anal canal which was kept moist and warm in basin of hot water. |
| (Most of these terms given by Mr Angus Macphail, aged 93, 26 Arnol, Isle of Lewis) |
| 1. Different stages in the growth of cattle |
| laogh firinn | |
| laogh boirun | |
| agh, aighean | [pl.] female up to two years gun dàir gun tarbh. |
| tarbh | dò-bhliadhach [sic], tri-bhliadhnach, according to age. |
| damh | ox. tarbh air a spòth (castrated [bull]). [NOTES: the last written next to ‘ox’ so it looks like it is part of the definition.] |
| gabhainn ( go’ inn), pl. gabhna | [pron.?] one year old female. |
| taghanach | [bò] a chaidh seach laogh tri tuiris ach tha bainne aige or aiche. |
| gamhnach | bò chaidh seach laogh ach aig am bheil bainne s tha am bainne blasta. |
| sealbhach | bò air ùr-breith. |
| seadhanach | bò tri bliadhna le bainne gun laogh. |
| 2. Breeds of cattle |
| an crodh dùbh | the hardy small black cattle of the Highlands, Kyloes. Hebrides 1700-1850. |
| 3. Outward appearance of cattle |
| caol | |
| ramhar | |
| bò ruadh | |
| bò dhubh | |
| bò riabhach | |
| bò bhreac | |
| bò odhar | |
| bò mhaol | |
| bò lachdann | |
| L adharcach | [achdann?] one horn on, one missing. Not a unicorn. |
| bò ghlas | |
| bò bhàn | |
| 4. Names for certain beasts, e.g. an animal on which the owner bestows particular attention |
| 5. Parts of the body |
| binit | stomach of a calf. |
| 6. Calving |
| dàir air a bhò | [cow] on heat or in season. |
| aig iarradh tarbh | |
| aig iarradh an tairbh | |
| salachair | placenta or afterbirth. Expression: ‘na rùg i an salchair’. |
| 7. Milking |
| strachadh | milking. |
| beadaradh | milking. |
| blodhan na bá | milking the cow. |
| blodhain a chruidh | milking the cattle. |
| ga blodhain tirim | [milking to the] last drop. |
| laogh cois | |
| laogh an cois a mhàthair | laogh fodha màthair. |
| laogh a deothal a mhàthair | deocadh a mhàthar. |
| ùs | milk yield first two or three milkings. |
| sileadh a bhainne | teats dripping with excessive milk. |
| seipan | quart. [NOTES: originally the definition was ‘quart?’ but then ‘EXACTLY’ was written next to it.] |
| mis’ir | [?] wooden vessel. |
| bainne air suidheachadh | |
| misiridh | butter making, mistreach [?] [NOTES: it is not clear if this is part of the last definition or a separate entry.] |
| cuineag ( kuinag) | [pron.?] churn. (West side of Lewis) |
| beat | churn. (Uig) |
| Bite Uigean | [?] [churn?] [NOTES: not clear what the relation between the last two words is or what they refer to.] |
| cranachan | [churn]. (Breinish) |
| imidel | skin covering milk pail [when it was] carried home from sheiling. [It was] tied under the rim. |
| peile ceard | |
| muidhe | churn. |
| lanid | handle of churn.
|
| 8. Feeding |
| uinegean a bhainne | [?] |
| àri | sheiling. |
| barlus | [? farlus?] ceap [?] hole for smoke, peat smoke. |
| druim àri | ridge pole. |
| dloth fodair | loose handful. |
| moilean fodair | a generous armful. |
| phrasach | manger. |
| ionailt/innilt | pasture. |
| buachaileachd | tending the cattle. |
| buachail | herdsman or boy. |
| banachag | milking maid. |
| ioman | driving the cattle. |
| leabaidh laighe | night quarters, sheltered dell for cattle to spend the night, sheiling. |
| cotan | cot for young newly born calf for summer shieling only. |
| clach tachais | |
| taighean earraich | (Ness) moor, shieling, cattle under cover. |
| [note] | (Norman Campbell age 93, No 6 Arnol, Isle of Lewis.) |
| 9. Apparatus |
| lùthag? | teann os cionn na glun air a chas deiridh. Cord tied tightly above the joint [on the] hind leg [of a] lamb or sheep to keep animals on the move under control. |
| stiall | headpost in byre. |
| corothonan | a piece of wood with three holes by which two lambs could be tethered on the one tether.
|
| achdainn | neck rope. |
| acfhuinn | neck rope. |
| teoghaer | tether. |
| bacan | tether stake. |
| cùl-acdhainn | [sic] ceangailt mun an stiall. Tied around the headpost, to which again was tied smeathag, which was tied around the cow’s neck by cnac (toggle) and drula (loop). |
| cnac ( krak) | [pron.] toggle. |
| drula ( drulla) | [pron.] loop. |
| buarach | fetter for milking. |
| glùinean | air a chas toiseach. Fetter to tie up foreleg. |
| smeathac mart | neck tie. |
| spearach | fetter joining fore [and] hind leg [of] lamb or sheep. |
| dèidheinn | two forelegs fetter [for] horses to prevent wandering. Deidheann air each a cheàird (tinker) ach cha deidheann air a cheàrd fhein. |
| uchdachd cléibh | shoulder strap for creel. |
| iris cléibh | made of horse hair long ago. |
| dronag | outer shirt gathered into a pad [as a] rest for the creel. |
| 10. Diseases |
| tuathalan | poc uisge air an aonachail. |
| an doile | blindness. |
| 11. Miscellaneous |
| tha bhò ann an sàs | [cow] stuck in mire or bog. |
| tha bhò ann an tabhainn | cow in distress. |
| buachair a chruidh | cow dung. |
