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 English origin, though the Irish equivalent may have contributed to its popularity.


 * 'With that her couverchef from her head she braid
 * And over his litel eyen she it laid.'




 * Word; trace, sign. (Ulster.) 'Did you see e'er a word of a black-avised (black-visaged) man travelling the road you came?'


 * Wrap and run: 'I gathered up every penny I could wrap and run,' is generally used: the idea being to wrap up hastily and run for it.




 * Yoke; any article, contrivance, or apparatus for use in some work. 'That's a quare yoke Bill,' says a countryman when he first saw a motor car.