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40 farm or village, serving as land-marks for fishermen by which to find a fishing-ground, thus: a) “de upper [begdəns]” and “de (lower) Bigdens”, sea-terms for the villages “Taft” and “Nisthus” in Later used as name for fishing-places: de Bigdens. b) “de, de auld [‘old’] and de new Bigg”, sea-term for the village Lund, the old and the new part respectively. — bygð,, a village.

bigg [bıg],, to build; construct, to b. a hoose; to b. de corn, de hay (to stack); in a special sense: to build a nest; to frequent, of birds, = byggja. byggja and big, , to build. $wg$,, and $2$ ,

biggerablanda [bıg·ərabläᶇ·da, bıg·ra-],, “dredge”, a mixture of barley and oats; , [bog·ərabläᶇ·da, bog·ərom-], ; an old *bygg-hafra-blanda ( *bygg-hafra-um-blanda). The uncompounded also denotes mixed oats and barley, but a more even mixture; contains more barley than oats, and , buggerum- consists of: a) barley; b)  oats; c) oats.  *bigg$2$  and .  hafri,, oats, of which a trace is left here in --, has in , at all events on the , been superseded, first by the Celtic  (Gael, coirce), later — to a great extent — by ait, aits (oat, oats). — A more modern form for is  [bēri-], the first part of which is  (and ), bere, bear,, barley.


 * biggin$n$,, = *$n$,

biggin$n$ [bıgın],, collection or cluster of houses, a b. o’ hooses; Noted down in in the form  [bøgın], a b. o’ hooses. *bygging, from byggja, , to build. (and ) “biggin”, building.

biggin [bıgın]-peat,, large piece of peat placed on the outside of a peat-stack when being built. *bygging (ar-torfa).


 * bik [bık],, pitch. bik,

†biker [bıkər],, a wooden cup; drinking-vessel; round wooden vessel with an upright handle on one side.,  bikarr, , cup; drinking-vessel; and bicker, bowl; drinking-vessel. The preservation of the word in is certainly due to the influence of, as the form indicates.

bikk [bık, bek],, bitch; also [bɛk]. bikkja, , bick,

bikk, and, see , and

bilk, bilki [b$n$i‘ᶅk, bı‘lki or b$1$i‘lki], , =, (bare, naked) breast, in the phrase “de bare b.”, to geng wi’ de bare b., to go about with a bare breast;  [bäi‘lki, bä‘ᶅki]:, *bylki, , of projecting; bulk,, bump.
 * bulk-, of something roundish and

bill [bıl, bəl],, eddy or streak of foam from an oar in rowing, a b. fae [‘from’] de ayre [‘oar’]; pull of an oar, to tak’ forward a b., to row the boat an oar-stroke forward, to set op a b., to pull a stroke ( to make an eddy, a streak of foam) with the oar. From the forms [bȯl] and [båil] are reported, de b. o’ de ayre. : [vəl] = bill. bull,, bubble, ; bulla, , to bubble; eddy.

bilskod [bıᶅ·ᶊkåd·, beᶅ·-],, piece of wood, nailed below on the outside of a crank boat to make it more seaworthy. The second