crowdie
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Rob searches for a closer connection to his family members, hoping to understand their self-sustaining way of life, including fishing for herring, cooking over peat fires and making crowdie cheese.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2024
And a merry mouse in a mill, With a howdie crowdie, &c. &c.
From Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 by Various
Crowdie ance, crowdie twice, Three times crowdie in a day; Gin ye crowdie ony mair, Ye'll crowdie a' my meal away.
From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford
“Let’s have a crowdie night,” he would say; and forthwith a kettle of boiling water was ordered in, with a basin of oatmeal.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
But saw ye ne'er some pingein' bairn As weak as a pitaty-par'n' - Less used wi' guidin' horse-shoe airn Than steerin' crowdie - Packed aff his lane, by moss an' cairn, To ca' the howdie.
From Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson
