10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRADDAN»
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A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting ...
... a Dios, Cape — Graciosa, Azore island, Cumberland's voyage to — ,
Evelham's ditto Graddan in Skie t — Graduates, Tonquinese — Gram town, pearl
fishery of Graffen-ort villa — Grafton isle , — Grafton's Chronicles — Graham, Rev
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An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language: ...
I must observe too, that the island lasses are as merry at their work of grinding the
Graddan, the Kxxpt; of the antients, as those of Greece were in the days of
Aristophanes, Who warbled as they ground their parched corn. Nubes, Act v.
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A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting ...
Ituld them, that if we judged by the effects, this dish was preferable to chocolate ;
for such as drink often of the former enjoy a better state of health than those who
use the latter. GRADDAN. The ancient way of dressing corn, which is yet used in
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A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland: Containing ...
... of the Isles of Orkney and Schetland Martin Martin. Graddan. ., . , jh'ti $jie rT 'HE
antient way of dressing Corn, which A$foui i* A 's vet us'^ 10 ^evera' Mes> is calfd
Li/umjt [Graddan, from the Irish word Grid ; which om**n* /^fignifies quick ...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
This resembles the Graddan of the Highlanders. V. Gradhan. BUS, (Fr. u) interj.
Addressed to cattle, equivalent to " Stand to the stake Dumfr. Evidently from Base,
a stall, q. v. BUSCH, Bus, Bushe, s. 1. A larger kind of boat, used by those who ...
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. A-Kut
En- cycl. Britann. vo. Forfar. GRACIE, adj. Well-behaved; also, devout; religious.
S. GRACIE, Graicie, s. A pig. V. Gris, Gryce. S. GRADDAN, s. 1. Parched corn ;
grain burnt out of the ear ; S. Both the corn and the meal prepared in this manner,
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Cupboard Love 2: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities
It was also in the seventeenth century that the English adopted the word graddan,
a name given by the Irish to grain that is parched in a hot pan before being used
to make graddan cake; the source of graddan is gread-aim, a Gaelic phrase ...
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A New Dictionary of the English Language. -London, Pickering ...
Graticola, Menage derives from craticula, a diminutive of crates. Dr. Jamieson. (in
. v. Graddan,). thinks. that. in. the. Eng. Gridiron, traces of the Sw. Goth. Graedda,
igne torrere, are to be found. Our grid is not improbahly. a. corruption. of. the. Fr.
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Review of Scottish Culture
The 'Graddan Mill of John Grant', discussed below, is a telling example of this
useful circumstance of Scottish ethnology. 'Graddan' was grain that was dried
and parched in the husk in order to speed up the process of preparing it for
grinding ...
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A Tour in Ireland: With General Observations on the Present ...
I must observe too that the ifland lasses are as merry at their work of grinding the
Graddan, the xaxeo; of the ancients, as those of Greece were in the days of
Aristophanes, lVho warbled as they ground their parched corn '. The quern or bra
is ...
