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  1. Buttery n.: Buttery: a limpet, the interior of which was more yellow than normal—attractive bait.  
  2. Rooklo n. ROOKLO , n . Also rookler (Ork. 1929 Marw.). The rough limpet, Patella athletica (Ork 
  3. Kupi n. holding limpet-bait (Sh. 1902 E.D.D. , koopi , 1908 Jak. (1928)). [′kupi] [Of similar orig. to Kupa 
  4. Spick n.1 pig's flesh was called ‘spike'. Derivs. (1) spicko , a big limpet (Ork. 1929 Marw.); (2) spiggi) spikkie , adj., of blubberlike consistency, in comb. spikkie- , spiggi-limpet , = (1) (Sh. 1908 Jak 
  5. Spikilurie n.. ? cf. Norw. dial. spik , chip or splinter of wood, or spicko , spiggie , a limpet, q.v .]  
  6. Muggie n. of a limpet shell (Sh. 1963). Sh. 1956 U. Venables Life in Sh. vii.: You draw the fish in by putting a bit of salt herring in your poke or spitting chewed limpet muggies on the water. . . . A 
  7. Cuddie n.2 Angus Gl. : A limpet kuddi is made of dokkens and is adapted to being carried in the hand; a saat 
  8. Bishop n.1, v. limpet, Patina pellucida (Ork. 1954 Ork. Miscellany II. 57). 2 . v . To use the instrument 
  9. Flemingia Cemoria or spiral limpet shell (1827 Zool. Jnl . III. 77), and of a Productus , or fossil branchiopod 
  10. Kuivy n. horse from eating during harvest operations ( Ib .); 4 . a small basket of straw for holding limpet 
  11. Lempit n.. Scot . 253). Sc. forms and usages of Eng. limpet . [Sc. ′lɛ(i)mpət, Fif. ′lɛmpɪk] 1 . As in Eng. Nat. Club II. 36: The Limpet or Lempecks . These have a rather thin shell of a greenish colour 
  12. Marmaid n. (Fif. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife 120). 3 . A species of limpet (Sc. 1911 S.D.D .).  
  13. D n.. 6 . In nn.Sc., d replaces final t : in -et , which becomes -ad , e.g. limpad , limpet; in hid 
  14. Yaud n..; Rnf. 1837 Crawfurd MSS . X. 189). (3) a large variety of the common limpet (Bwk. 1885 Hist. Bwk 
  15. Mend v., n. Poems (1865) 277: An' pu' the limpet aff the rock, To fatten and to mend ye. Twd. 1873 C 
  16. Wulk n.; mussels and wilkies were taxed. Sh. 1900 Shetland News (22 Dec.): I used ta hunt da limpet an 
  17. Lady n. be a corruption of Lampet ; (21) leddy-lass(ie) , = (2); (22) lady limpet , the pellucid limpet 
  18. Mary n. , marigold; (5) Mary shell , marishell , -shall (Jak.), the pellucid limpet, Patina pellucida (Sh. 1908 
  19. Scruif n., v. afo the week o the lamp. 5 . Specif .: a kind of limpet, prob. from its covering the rocks like a 
  20. Pock n.2, v. putting a bit of salt herring in your poke or spitting chewed limpet muggies on the water . . . A poke is 

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