sgeit-bhàn | Note: a type of skate which, he says, has a tail with no spikes on it. Very good to eat. |
muc-chreige | Note: ballan wrasse. |
cat-dubh | Note: fish similar to the “garran-creige” [q.v.] but larger. Prominent teeth. (Variety called “cat-dearg” also found.) |
garran-creige | Note: small, ugly rock-fish. |
sgrothair | [sɡɾɔhəð] Note: farthest out of the tangles. (1) Bàrr-liagh (2) Stamh (3) Sgrothair (farthest out). |
barr-liagh | [bɑ:rlʹıɤɣ] Note: a kind of tangle. |
splang | [spɫɑɣ:] Quot.: splang a mhionaich. Note: the skin on the stomach of a sheep. |
feannadh-balgain | [fȷɑ̃n̪əbɑɫɑɡɑ̃nʹ] Note: removing a calf-skin as whole as possible, without cutting down the underside. |
clamair | [klɑmɑɾ] Note: tup lamb with only one testicle. |
clamaigeadh | Note: type of castration without actually removing the testicles. Bag put on the edge of something and the cord severed by hitting with a hard instrument. |
drèibheilear | [d̪ɾɛ:vəlɑð] Note: traveller, on a mast. |
riobh-éirin | [rwfe:ɾəṉ] Note: short piece of sheet used for shortening the sail. Reef-earing. |
di-theallaidh | [dʹiˈhɑɫi] Note: iron bar whose tip was heated in the fire for making a hole in wood. (Says it’s called “bior-chrith” in Skye.) |