| [note] | I wonder if any of the enclosed words can be of use to you? (...) My Gaelic spellings can be corrected. |
| gorm-an-ìuchd | the board in front of the weaver on which the tweed slides down after it is woven. |
| mein-àridh | two small boards with steel [?] pins at each end laid across the woven tweed on the ‘gorm-an-ìuchd’ [q.v.] to keep the tweed edges straight.
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| liaradh | used for winding the spun yarn. It had 3 spokes underneath a roundish piece of wood with a spike at the top where two long bits of wood were laid crossways with holes in them and with wooden pins in the holes to keep the hank until it was wound into a ball. |
| ceutigain | [?] socks [?]. |
| iulainn | yard where corn stalks and hay were kept. |
| feanhag | [?] lazybed. |
| sealabhag | the root of the docken leaves used to bind the dyes of the dyed wool. |
| fasgnadh | the process of separating the seed and the chaff. |
| ruidhal | a round wooden hoop covered with a preserved sheep’s skin and perforated like a sieve used for separating of corn seed and chaff. |
| mocain | old stockings worn on the feet in the summer-time instead of shoes. |
| crios | a cord used as a belt to hold up the very long skirts of women in these days of long ago. |
| beannhnag | [?] a piece of cotton cloth wound round the head to keep the hair tidy when at work. Resembling the head-scarves of today but much smaller. |
| cùl-mònadh | a corner where the peat was kept after being carried home for burning. |
| flagishg | a pit where the cow manure was kept. |
| stiùrag | a drink made by mixing some oatmeal with cold water and pouring hot water over it. |
| seishan | [?] gruel. |
| bainne-slamain | (curds) done in the stomach of the killed calf!! |
| bainne-deasgain | [See bainne-slamain.] |
| car-a-mhuiltean | tumbler (glass). |
| sodolach | gossipy. |
| shisacot | [?] waistcoat. |
| cean maol sgalach | baldy head. |
| featha | bog |
| spàrr-gaoithe | the high cross-wood in the black house. |
| luberneach | favourite. |
| pumalàir | bully. |
| gille-balla-ma-thòn | loafer. |
| frithasg | the limpets knocked off the stones on the seashore, put in a bucket and boiling water poured over to remove them from the shells and used as bait rock-fishing [sic]. |
