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Furness Dialect Dictionary
the kitchen fire |
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Furness Dialect Dictionary
the kitchen fire
- ass-hooal - ash pit
- kinnel (vr) - to kindle
- ræak t'fire - to bank a turf fire with ashes to keep alight during the night. This was done regularly every evening
- ass - ashes, cinders
- niggert - iron cheeks placed in a fire grate in order to save fuel
- eldin - fuel
- cooal - coal, charcoal
- chats - stIcks used as fuel
- prôker - sometimes used for a poker
- peeat - peat; turf for fuel
- seeat - soot
- beetin stick - stick used for firing under a girdle plate when baking oat bread