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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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LINTIE-PIPES, n.comb. Used only in the riddle quoted below, to connote a lamb. Other versions however read lintie-white with the same meaning (see Lint, n.¹, 4. (28)) and Rantie-Pipes, q.v.Sh. 1937 J. Nicolson Yarns 93:
I sat in my sheeram shaarim [chair], An' looked trou da leeram laarim [window]; I saw da ree-raw [raven] Carryin' da lintie-pipes awa'.