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Furness Dialect Dictionary

Trees & bushes

  • ellers - alder trees
  • eish - ash tree (eish keis - ash seeds)
  • heckberry or hag berry - bird cherry
  • birk - birch tree
  • bor tree - elder tree
  • hezel - hazel
  • hollin - holly
  • yak - oak (yakern - acorn)
  • roan-tree - the mountain ash
  • wîth - willow tree
  • widdy - young willow shoots; osiers
  • seeals - willows
  • savin - juniper
  • breer - briar

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