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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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AWRIGE, ARRIDGE, n. (See first quot.)Ork. 1874 Trans. Highl. Soc. 91:
The ploughmen are very skilful at their work, and in the spring of the year "straight lines" and "well-laid-up arridges" form the usual topics of conversation.Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 35:
Awrige — Those little ridges which are made by the plough, and are so laid one by another, that they cover the seed when they are harrowed down on it; it is the angular points, as it were, above the level of a ploughed ridge.Kcb. 1913 (d. 1902) J. Heughan Virgil's "Golden Age," Gallovidian XV. 108:
Where pleus on teuch leys, furs pit arridge gleg [draw the furrows with a sharp ridge], Gar sprett and breckans for their bare lives beg.
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