Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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MONISH, n. Also -ed. Soft pliable woollen twine used by fishermen for fastening a trawling ring-net to the head and sole ropes.Arg.1 1940:
Monish is a soft twisted woollen twine about as thick as a man's little finger for attaching a herring trawl net to the back rope and sole rope of the net. The manager of the local Network informed me that, though the local name is steening twine, in ordering from the woollen mills in Midlothian he always uses the word Monish.Arg. 1949 N. Mitchison and D. Macintosh Men and Herring 51:
Then they were sorting the net mending wee holes, and the monished broken here and there and needing sorted.
