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stern of a boat where someone sits
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baldie boats
fishing boat, type that Cromarty men took to the lochs
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battry: pit the bucket oer the battry til me
sea-wall: hand the bucket to me over the sea wall
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beetyach
knife, a small, for mending nets
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belwar
tangles, layers of (as in nets)
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blockies
small cod
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brimed
boats once timbers have been soaked with sea water
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buckies
whelks (Latin: Buccinum undatum)
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bendin
join between two pieces of long-line
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bicht
turn taken by a boat, a (when shooting the lines)
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buird or boord
net shot, the last
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beygin, bingin or binnen, o the teeset or teyset
fishing line
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boatic or bottick
boat hook
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bot: az is zat bot?
boat: whose boat is that?
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biggar-man
black flounder (fish)
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bleyan
fish, damaged, that has been bitten/ sucked by another
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boatackie: come ere an hae a squint at ma wee bit boatackie
boat: come here and have a look at my very small boat
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bomie-wan
punting pole or boat hook
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brime
salt water, to fill a boat with
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burth
distance between the boats when setting lines
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collumsaw
coalfish
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cross gang
straw, bundle of to support the bait
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cullumsa
coalfish
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chatters
iron staples in rudder post into which rudder is fixed
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clever: the clever yawlie
boat: first motor fishing boat to appear in Cromarty (clever here meaning ‘fast’)
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crockums or crockuns
fish-livers after oil is extracted
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chacher
angler fish, smaller
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cockie-paidles
lumpfish or lumpsuckers
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cosfeet, cosfit, cosset or cossits
starfish
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darra
line for mackerel fishing
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duffie
chimney sweep
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drunken
fishhook (put into the basket without being baited)
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dykes: sun's breakin doon the dykes the day
sea-walls: sun’s breaking through the walls today
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droog-droogle
to do wet, heavy work
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escorn
backrest, used by fishwives for supporting the creel
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farden
space between two timbers in bottom of boat
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fitloan, fitlun, fitspar
footrest in rowing boat
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fleuk, fluke, flook
flounder, or general word for a flat fish
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garroch or garvie
a sprat
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girds
hoops (resembling butterfly nets) baited to to catch buckies (whelks) with cured herring, fish entrails and cod heads, to
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kyachack, kyacher
a small angler fish
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killing or killin
seabirds hovering over the water, screaming, appearance indicating presence of fish
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kessocks
herring
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lye
coalfish at a certain stage
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laroch or lyaroch
a mussel-bed (bed to which mussels are transported from the scaup where mussels are grown)
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lyantyuch
a small fish basket
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mash
mesh of fishing net
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mancril or mankrel
creel or basket, small, for carrying fish or bait
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meeze
a fishing-bed where one would expect to get a certain kind of fish
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olla buird
platform (in the bow of a fishing boat)
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ootrug
backward rush of a wave
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padlock or padluck
a small coalfish
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scanty
fishing lines, small
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scaup
mussel-bed where they are grown for line bait, a
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shatters
staples of iron to which the help is fixed in a boat
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shimee
backrest used by fishwives for supporting the creel, a
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skipper (h)an
starboard side, the
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spoolier or spoolyer
coalfish, young, a
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sprool
wire or whalebone cross-piece attached to hand lines to which a snood with a hook is attached
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strolyach
octopus, cuttle fish or squid, an
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shaldoo
sprat or herring, young, a
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sma-line
line, small (with about 600 hooks), a
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smelt
smooth spot on the sea, a
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snappy
cod, small, a
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spardie
attic or loft, or a wooden erection for supporting a basket for fishing lines, a
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speet
rod or skewer, metal, used to hang fish up to dry, a
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spooner
pollack, young, a
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spootcher
baling scoop, a
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scanti, scanty, scantling or scontach
fishing line with hooks attached (400-3000)
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scroggan
fish, half-dried, a
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scunnered
fed up
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shatter or shatters
pin or gudgeon on which a boat’s rudder turns, a
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shulbit
knife for preparing mussel bait, a
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smoolyer
coalfish, small, a
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soom
stomach or air bladder of a herring, a
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spelding
haddock, smoked, a
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the day: oo thee the day?
herring
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teydin
fishing line, eighth
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veids
smokehouse spaces between the cross bars where fish hang
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wanty or wantye
fishing lines shot in the water
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yaw-line
hand line or small line flung to the pier to carry the hawser (swing-rope) for mooring, a
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yawlie, yellie or yollie
yawl (fishing boat), a
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