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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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CROMARTY FIRE, n. comb. See quot.:Rs. 1845 Stat. Acc.² XIV. 7:
“A Cromarty fire” was a name current over the country for a fire just gone out; and some humorist of the period represents a Cromarty farmer in a phrase which became proverbial, as giving his daughter the key of the peat-chest, and bidding her to take out a peat and a-half that she might “put on a good fire.”