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222 THE FORBES BARON COURT BOOK
Flachter spade, a long two-handed spade for casting turfs.
Flyting, scolding.
Fogitch, foggage, rank grass on which stock feed in winter.
Futeit compts, balanced accounts.
Girsschman, tenant of a cottage with no land attached.
Grethstings, poles for making hoops.
Haddish, a measure of grain. See Introduction.
Hadin, a holding; it might be either land or a house.
Haining, enclosure.
Hainit girs, enclosed grass.
Handigrips, close grappling.
Hearring, harrowing.
Holling fir and aik, digging up trunks of fir and oak buried in a
moss. See Introduction.
Hucle, heckle, torment.
Hunied com, damaged corn. Dr. Wilson suggests that the word
ought to be read f humid ’; but at p. 287 it seems synonymous
with ‘sweit.’
Kail, cabbage.
Knaveship (also written ‘kenship’), a small duty in meal paid to
the under-miller.
Leg dollar, a Dutch coin, having the impression of a man in arms
with one leg and a shield covering the other leg. In 1670 its
value in Scots money was reduced by Act of the Privy
Council from 58 to 56 shillings Scots. (See Reg. of Privy
Council, third series, vol. iii. p. 136.)
Mailing, farm for which mail (rent) is paid.
Mein dykes, march dykes, common to two adjacent farms.
Merciment, fine imposed by a j udge, amerciamenlum.
Midden bird (zeird), heap of earth mixed with manure.
Mill swyne, swine paid by a miller as part of his rent.
Miswaron, mansworn.
Mossgreiv, overseer superintending the casting of peat.
Moudefow, small fee paid to the under-miller.
Muck-fail, heap of turf mixed with manure.
Muirburn, burning heather. In old days it was followed by strip¬
ping the surface of the moor.
Muttie, quarter peck. See Introduction.
Nolt, black cattle.
Opposit, questioned.
Pickiman, the under-miller.