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Furness Dialect Dictionary

On’t shooar

on the beach

  • shoor - beach
  • scar - a shoal; stony bed on foreshore
  • shaad - shoal; shallow water
  • eea - channel of a stream on the foreshore at low water
  • wick-sands - quicksands
  • poo - a pool; the tidal portion of a beck
  • full seea - high water

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