What do you call this? Regional wordings

djmc

I'm eating my dinner as I type this with a fork
Prong's on a buckrake and tines on a sheer grab
and four Prong's on a pike .
Having dessert after with a spoon not a shovel.

zetecescort

djmc wrote: »

I'm eating my dinner as I type this with a fork
Prong's on a buckrake and tines on a sheer grab
and four Prong's on a pike .
Having dessert after with a spoon not a shovel.

somebody talking sense at last

red bull

Did ye ever hear of a "brushn of turf" or a "goal of hay"

Username John

red bull wrote: »

Did ye ever hear of a "brushn of turf" or a "goal of hay"

A 'gabháil' me mother tells me - the grandfather used to say a good bit.

My grandmother used to use a word 'bacál' (not sure of spelling) meaning an armful, as in a bácal of sticks, or a bácalín as was usually said..,

djmc

No but I heard of a reek of turf and a cock of hay.
Ever hear of a spancle

red bull

Gabhail probably correct just going on sound. a gabhail of hay was as much as you could carry with your hands.
A spancle I think was used to tie a sheeps legs together to stop it jumping walls

invicta

red bull wrote: »

Gabhail probably correct just going on sound. a gabhail of hay was as much as you could carry with your hands.
A spancle I think was used to tie a sheeps legs together to stop it jumping walls

Also called a fether,used for 'flighty' heifers to stop 'em kicking!
Anyone heard of a 'dourne'? as in,give a dourne of ration, to the heifer?
A dourne meaning a fistful!

foxy farmer

Another irish word to describe a small load. Excuse the spelling as I'm just guessing it.

A taishcáin. Used to describe the last trailer load of silage!!

red bull

invicta wrote: »

Also called a fether,used for 'flighty' heifers to stop 'em kicking!
Anyone heard of a 'dourne'? as in,give a dourne of ration, to the heifer?
A dourne meaning a fistful!

Heard of a mambh of ration, as in two hands together

djmc

invicta wrote: »

Also called a fether,used for 'flighty' heifers to stop 'em kicking!
Anyone heard of a 'dourne'? as in,give a dourne of ration, to the heifer?
A dourne meaning a fistful!

Yep thats it a type of bondage for cows before the invention of a kickbar.
I heard latly of a ponney of nuts which is a small container to hold a dourne of nuts probably enough for one cow.

Carazy

Go down the haggart (haggard) for some kippins.

Muckit

foxy farmer wrote: »

Another irish word to describe a small load. Excuse the spelling as I'm just guessing it.

A taishcáin. Used to describe the last trailer load of silage!!

The last small load of turf.... 'There's only a small jog left' Definitely not irish origin with the J!! Oul lad always said it. Any other galway hear of this?

Muckit

Carazy wrote: »

Go down the haggart (haggard) for some kippins.

kippins... small sticks to light the fire. If you're posh now you'd call it kindling!!

Ciarans... small bits of turf. Again great to start a fire!!

There would be a fada on the last 'a' prononced 'awn'

Reggie.

Muckit wrote: »

kippins... small sticks to light the fire. If you're posh now you'd call it kindling!!

Ciarans... small bits of turf. Again great to start a fire!!

There would be a fada on the last 'a' prononced 'awn'

Same here and also the last bucket is the last jog also

Carazy

Anyone use the phrase "a bart of hay/silage"

patsy_mccabe

Yep, 'bart of hay, 'sugan rope' (made from hay), 'leath kay' to describe a very poor animal. Not sure of the spelling of the last one.

Bullocks

Carazy wrote: »

Anyone use the phrase "a bart of hay/silage"

Ya , or a mawmeen of nuts .

mayota

Anyone ever hear thistles being called 'thrishels'.

byhookorbycrook

Bart probably from the Irish word for parcel "beart"

Fork= four prongs , pike was two.

I'm now living in Carlow..;but where I grew up a ditch could be like a drain or a hedge, whereas here it seems ditch is water filled only. What's the story elsewhere?

Kovu

Here (S Leitrim) a ditch is usually the part above ground. The gripe is the dug out area below it- either with or without water.

Describing both together it's a hedge.

zetecescort

ditch is trees or hedges, drain is channel for water(in field or yard)

Nekarsulm

'Shough" is the dug out part. It can be a "dry shough" if it never has water running in it, of course.

byhookorbycrook

We would use "dry ditch."

While we are at it, hay cock, hay wind?

pedigree 6

It appears that sprong is in the urban dictionary now.:D
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sprong

djmc

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/the-great-debate-is-it-a-fork-is-it-a-sprong-no-its-a-grape-203817/

Now look what ye did
Here we go again

Reggie.

djmc wrote: »

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/the-great-debate-is-it-a-fork-is-it-a-sprong-no-its-a-grape-203817/

Now look what ye did
Here we go again

It'll never end

whelan2

djmc wrote: »

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/the-great-debate-is-it-a-fork-is-it-a-sprong-no-its-a-grape-203817/

Now look what ye did
Here we go again

we should have patented the poll, I know the boards poll is the real one and that FORK is the winner

rliston

Username John wrote: »

A 'gabháil' me mother tells me - the grandfather used to say a good bit. ,

Haven't heard gabhail used in years, normally followed by being roared at for leaving a "streal" of straw from the hay barn to the calf shed because it was dragging along the ground

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

we should have patented the poll, I know the boards poll is the real one and that FORK is the winner

Agreed

selectamatic

mayota wrote: »

Anyone ever hear thistles being called 'thrishels'.

Following on from this, anyone hear of a large collection of rushes being pronounced "rishes".
Eg: the field up the back is covered in rishes.