10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOWPEN»
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Stotty 'n' Spice Cake: The Story of North East Cooking
Du kuip 'cask']. a gowpen - as much as your hands will hold: 'a gowpen of meal'
as an alms to the poor, also 'a gowpen of herbs' in medical prescriptions, Bell MS
C1 9/1; gowpen - the hollow of both hands placed together: 'a gowpen o' yetts' ...
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Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art
This seems to have been particularly the case with respect to two small dry
measures called the lock and gowpen. The lock is one handful, or as much meal
as one hand can grasp ; whilst the gowpen is as much as can be lifted by the two
...
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Littell's Saturday Magazine: Or, Spirit of the Magazines and ...
This seems to have been particularly the case with respect to two small dry
measures called the lock and gowpen. The lock is one handful, or as much meal
as one hand can grasp ; whilst the gowpen is as much as can be lifted by the two
...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
This seems to have been particularly the case with respect to two small dry
measures called the lock and gowpen. The lock is one handful, or as much meal
as one hand can grasp ; whilst the gowpen is as much as can be lifted by the two
...
Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith, 1837
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Waverley Novels: ¬The pirate ; [1]
How mony a time have I heard you bell-the-cat with auld Edie Netherstane, the
miller at Grindleburn, and wi' his very knave too, about in-town and out-town
multures-—lock, gowpen, and knaveship, and a' the lave o't; and now naething
less ...
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A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: With Their ...
Gowpen, the hollow of the hand, contracted in a semicircular form to receive any
thing — a handful. — Gowpen-full, is also used in the latter sense. Isl. gaupn. Su.-
Got. goepn, manus concava. Gowpens, both hands held together in form of a ...
John Trotter Brockett, 1829
Gowpen, gowpin, as much as both hands held together, with the palms upward,
and contracted in a circular form, can contain. Graddan, meat ground on tlie
quern, or hand-mill. Graff, greaf, grave. Graip, dung-fork. Graith, harness.
Gramashes ...
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Concise English-Scots Dictionary
having powerful hands rackle- handit. two hands held together to form a
receptacle gowpen. handicap noun (burden) doon-haud, haud-doon, doon-drag
NE, doon- draucht. handkerchief naipkin, snochter-dich- ter, snifter-dichter NE.
handle ...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 1999
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A glossary of north country words, in use. From an original ...
Gowpen, the hollow of the hand, contracted in a semicircular form to receive any
thing — a handful. — Gowpen-full, is also used in the latter sense. Isl. gaupn. Su.-
Got. goepn, manus concava. Gowpens, both hands held together in form of a ...
John Trotter Brockett, 1829
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Standards of English: Codified Varieties Around the World
The raw figures should be taken with some care: even with 810,803 words, the
spoken part of SCOTS is quite small, and some rarer items (e.g. gowpen 'double
handful') do not occur. Even the standard English term handful only occurs once
...
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