The peat-fire flame : folk-tales and traditions of the Highlands & Islands

GLOSSARY
HAVER: to talk at random, nonsensically, incoherently,
whimsically.
JALOUSED: suspected, guessed.
KEBBUCK: a whole cheese.
KEEKING: peeping.
KIST: a wooden chest or box ; sometimes a coffin.
KNOWE: a knoll or mound.
KYLE: a strait or narrows.
LEAL: loyal.
MACHAR: an extensive, bent-grown tract; the low-lying and
sometimes swampy lands near the shore, affording a
certain amount of pasturage for live-stock.
" MAK SICCAR": make surer.
MOOLS: the grave; the earth of a grave; dust.
QUERN: a stone hand-mill for grinding grain.
RIEVING: plundering, raiding, roving.
ROWTING: bellowing.
RUNE: a secret or mystery; a cryptic rhyme or saying; a
fragment of ancient lore or poetry, usually having a
mystic significance.
SASSENACH: a term habitually applied by Highlanders to
Lowlanders, often contemptuously; an Englishman.
SCART: cormorant.
SEANNACHIE: a story-teller; historian of a clan.
SHIELING: the shelter or hut in which shepherds, drovers,
and others dwell when the cattle are herded to the hills
for summer grazing.
SKELP: a smack given with the hand.
SKOYLING: squealing.
SOUGH: the noise of wind; a rumour.
SPIRTLE: a wooden stick such as is used to stir porridge
or broth.
SPREAGH: plunder; booty, usually in the form of cattle.
TACKSMAN: a lease-holder or tenant farmer.
TEEM: to pour; to unload as a cart.
TINCHEL: a circle of men engaged for the purpose of closing
in round a herd of deer.
TOOM: empty, lean, bare.
TRYST: an appointment to meet; a rendezvous; a fixed
market or fair.
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