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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Ivigar, Ivegar, n. [Of Scand. origin. In the mod. dial. of Orkney as uivigar (and cf. mod. Icel. ígulker, Færoese iġóltšear).] In Orkney: A sea-urchin. —1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. 26 (J).
Orbes non habens, Echinus Marinus, Orcadensibus Ivigar a1688 Wallace Orkney (1883) 17.
There is one shell-fish of a round figure, the skine above the shell being thick set with prickles, they call them ivigars Ib. 186.
The common people reckon the meat of the sea urchin or ivegars, as they call them, a great rarity
