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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

†GURDASTØRIE, n. Also gørdastøri, gorda-, guirdastaurie. The thick rope forming the border of a straw-rope net (Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928)).Sh. 1892 Manson's Sh. Almanac:
I set me till an drew ower my packie o tows, mended da guirdastaurie o my scalve.Sh. 1899 J. Spence Folk-Lore 179:
He sits by the round fire, with a baet o' gloy or a kirvie o' floss, winding it may be simmonds or gurdastöries for his maeshies and rivakessies.

[For the first element, cf. Norw. dial. gyrda (to put) a hoop round a vessel; the second is Sh. Norn støri, one of the thick, twisted bands of which a straw-basket is made, Norw. dial. staur, Swed., Dan. stør, a stake, stave.]

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