crowdie
Example Sentences
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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
When enough meal had been added, and the stirring was completed, the crowdie was made.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
Chorus—Ance crowdie, twice crowdie, Three times crowdie in a day Gin ye crowdie ony mair, Ye'll crowdie a' my meal away.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
“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
