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Spoucher, wooden ladle for baling a boat. Sc. spud, spade. Cf. Celt. spuidgear, a baling ladle. Frythan, cook in a frying-pan. Stouns, sharp pains. Cf. a stoond o' love. Scaldachan, unfeathered nestlings. Norse and Sc. scalled, bald. Gosping, gasping Daing, a small swear. Fauchat, to throw up a thing. Cf. feech! expressing disgust. Clabbydhu, black bivalve, a large mussel still quite faruiliar on the lower Clyde estuary. Dhu is the Gael. black. Crouban, a crab, with suffixed article (an): neb, end, nose. Anachan, bivalve used for bait. Brollochan, similar, with a little difference in shape. Muirachbann, white shellfish got near the ebh. Celt. maorach, a shell- fish, and baan, fair. Dorling, line of shore joining isle to mainland. Celt. doirling, isthnius, beach. Gleshan, coal fish. Guildee, young of the saithe. Plouder, plouter, plunge.

For the Celtic of this gloss I have to thank Mr. Alexander Macbain, M.A., author of "An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language" (Inverness, 1896); and the verses, a cutting from a local newspaper, I owe to my friend, the late Mr. Matthew Dunlop, of Dunlop Brothers, Bothwell Street, Glasgow.