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Furness Dialect Dictionary

On yower feet

On your feet

  • shoen - shoes
     
  • boots
  • whangs - laces
  • sparrables - nails in boot soles
  • sooal - the sole of a boot
  • ben ledther - sole leather

  • clogs
  • cappel - cap on toe of boot
  • caakers - iron rims under soles
  • snout band - thin iron or brass plate nailed to toe of a sole
  • speckt - clogs with sole protected by leather (rather than a rim of iron)
  • specks - leather sole protectors
  • spring clogs - clogs with the wooden soles in two pieces, hinged under the instep with leather

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