10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PICKMAW»
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
pickmaw Sc. [pi'kmain] The black-headed gull, Lnrlls rudibnndus. Sc. The very
pickmaws and solan geese, Scorr Bride of Lam. (tBtg) xxiv. Rxb. The lav'rock, the
peasweep an' skirlin pickmaw, A. Scorr Pomrs (ed. 1308) 224; SWMNSON Birds
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The linguistic atlas of Scotland: Scots section
... 4c, 5, 6a, 7, 1 0 Nil - 4a Selkirk Pickie — 2e Pickie maw — 1, 2d, 4 Pickmaw —
2abce, 6 (Sea)gull - 2c, 4, 8 Nil - 3, 5, 7 Roxburgh Gor maw — 21c Pec k maw —
22 Pickie maw- 4-6, 8, 10, 12-13, 18, 20 Pickmaw - 3b, 15a, 16-17, 21adf, 25-26,
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J. Y. Mather, H. H. Speitel, G. W. Leslie, 1975
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The place names of Galloway: their origin and meaning considered
Pickmaw Island (in Loch Doon). ' Carsphairn.' " Pickmaw, a bird of the gull tribe."
— Jamieson. L. Sc. Seamaw is the general term for seagulls. Pikehorn (P.
Pykhorn). ' Sorbie.' Pildr6it. ' Whithorn.' Poll drochaid, water of the bridge. A street
in ...
Sir Herbert Maxwell, Herbert Maxwell (Sir.), 1930
... a' the water win in the moment I tak off my thoom. Lord' sake, mem, dinna be
lang sending ! But I'm thinking, amang a' thae braw court gentry, ye'll mind nae
mair o' puir Tibbie Cawmel than o' a pickmaw." " I would as soon forget a
mermaid, ...
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The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and ...
5 1 court gentry, yell mind nae mair o puir Tibbie Cawmel than o' a pickmaw.” “I
would as soon forget a mermaid, if I had seen one,” answered Mrs. Hamilton; and
, in spite of the saying that “ women and cows should never run,” she set off at her
...
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The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. / The Songs of ...
And whan thewee flow'rets begin then toblaw, The lavrock, thepeasweep, and
skirlin'pickmaw, Shall hiss the bleak winter to Lapland awa, Then we 'll ply the
blythe hours at the sawin' o't. And whan the birds sing on the sweet simmer morn,
...
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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect
An' whan the wee flow'rets begin then to blaw, The lav'rock, the peasweep, an'
skirlin pickmaw, Shall hiss the bleak winter to Lapland awa, Then we'll ply the
blythe hours at the sawin o't. An' whan the birds sing on the sweet simmer morn ...
But I'm thinking, amang a' thae braw court gentry, ye'll mind nae mair o' puir
Tibbie Cawmel than o' a pickmaw.” “ I would as soon forget a mermaid, if I had
seen one,” answered Mrs. Hamilton; and'in spite of the saying, that “women and
cows ...
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Magazine of Natural History
It is there called by the fishermen and others jerky, pickmaw, Ace. The lesser tern
(S. minuta) rarely visits the Frith, and Allonby ii the nearest place we have lately
received it from, The spring of the present year was one of the most backward ...
John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson, 1830
