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Posted By: GUEST,Martin Ryan
18-Apr-07 - 03:27 PM
Thread Name: What are 'piners' THE SALT - v.6 line1
Subject: RE: What are 'piners' THE SALT - v.6 line1
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"animal suffering from a wasting disease" is very much the sense in which the term is still used in rural Ireland, as far as I can see. Describing them as "non-thriving" is perhaps our Irish optimism!