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Furness Dialect Dictionary
Aboot sîkesabout drainage ditches |
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Furness Dialect Dictionary
Aboot sîkes
about drainage ditches
- beck - stream
- sīke - watercourse through wet land; a drain
- greeap - drainage channel or grip, as shuppen greeap
- dīke back - a ditch below a cop
- cundreth - a conduit; culvert
- goil - a sluice; culvert
- cloo - sluice; penstock; clough.
- stank - a pool; an embankment forming a pool
- sump - a miry place; a pit for collecting drainage