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Trinket, n.2 [? e.m.E. trinket(te (a1533) a small ornament or article of jewellery, trynket(t (a1536).] fig. ? A bracelet or necklace, applied to a chain of hills. — c1641–54 J. Gordon in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II 582.
That trinket of hills [sc. in Skye] ar generally called Klammaig … the hie way throw thois hills is called Bellachan-Scard
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