The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34358 Message #792390
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
27-Sep-02 - 10:55 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Hand-Loom Weaver's Lament
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The handloom weaver's lament
Karl Dallas (100 Songs of Toil, 1974) seems to have assumed it was a typo for chill. If it's a dialect word, it's one I haven't come across before!