Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
- Informant(s)
- Name
- Donald Angus MacLeod
- Age
- 70
- Name
- Maryann MacLeod
- Age
- about 70
- Location
- Harris, Finsbay
| donnag | young ling. |
| min bheisreach | brose meal. |
| min bhuidhe | peas-meal. |
| gàdag | rope used to carry peat etc. round your shoulder. |
| dearrach | |
| cluarein | old shoes used as slippers. Cluarein bhrog. |
| plocan | hammer with a wooden head. |
| geocaire | cook’s fork. Geocaire feoladh – meat fork. |
| a cheud bhainne | buttermilk. |
| falmair | hake. |
| athailte | old form of torch made of a lighted peat. |
| balgaire | someone of no consequence. |
| beuladair | a gossipy man. |
| duine leam-leat | [?] someone who argues with whatever you say. |
| reipseach | |
| criamhal | slow moving man. |
| duine somalta | an easy going man. |
| guitear | culvert through a byre. |
| duslaich nan speur | clouds. |
| rapaire | a man who makes a bad job of something, untidy. |
| greim lòn | rheumatic pain. |
| slòcan | medicine for cow disease using seaweed. |
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