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Thread #64202   Message #1198046
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
31-May-04 - 09:11 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Gaelic Verse in Burning of Auchindoun
Subject: RE: Origins: Gaelic Verse in Burning of Auchindoun
"Ye've brunt yer crop"

"brunt" means "burned", which doesn't take much imagination when you're dealing with arson.

"crop". If you're crowing, you must be a rooster. A chicken/rooster has a crop as part of its digestive system.

"and tint yer wings" "tint" is not color, as in English. "Tint" here is "lost"

Looks like the rooster has inhaled fire and burned his stomach, and burned off his wings, "an oor before the dawnin'"

For all his crowse (coarse) crawin' (crowing), the rooster got his comeuppance.

David Oesterreich

Dave Oesterreich