Glossary : T
Tack: possession: lease
Tacket: shoe-nail
Tae: to
Tae: toe
Tae'd: toed
Taed: toad
Taen: taken
Taet: small quantity
Tairge: to target
Tak: take
Tald: told
Tane: one in contrast to other
Tangs: tongs
Tap: top
Tapetless: senseless
Tapmost: topmost
Tappet-hen: a crested hen-shaped bottle holding three
quarts of claret
Tap-pickle: the grain at the top of the stalk
Topsalteerie: topsy-turvy
Targe: to examine
Tarrow: to tarry; to be reluctant: to
murmur; to weary
Tassie: a goblet
Tauk: talk
Tauld: told
Tawie: tractable
Tawpie: a foolish woman
Tawted: matted
Teats: small quantities
Teen: vexation
Tell'd: told
Temper-pin: a fiddle-peg; the regulating pin of the
spinning-wheel
Tent: heed
Tent: to tend; to heed; to observe
Tentie: watchful: careful:
heedful
Tentier: more watchful
Tentless: careless
Tester: an old silver coin about sixpence in value
Teugh: tough
Teuk: took
Thack: thatch; thack and rape = the covering of a
house: and so: home
necessities
Thae: those
Thairm: small guts; catgut (a fiddle-string)
Theckit: thatched
Thegither: together
Thick: v pack an' thick
Thieveless: forbidding: spiteful
Thiggin: begging
Thir: these
Thirl'd: thrilled
Thole: to endure; to suffer
Thou'se: thou shalt
Thowe: thaw
Thowless: lazy: useless
Thrang: busy; thronging in crowds
Thrang: a throng
Thrapple: the windpipe
Thrave: twenty-four sheaves of corn
Thraw: a twist
Thraw: to twist; to turn; to thwart
Thraws: throes
Threap: maintain: argue
Threesome: trio
Thretteen: thirteen
Thretty: thirty
Thrissle: thistle
Thristed: thirsted
Through: mak to through = make good
Throu'ther (through other): pell-mell
Thummart: polecat
Thy lane: alone
Tight: girt: prepared
Till: to
Till't: to it
Timmer: timber: material
Tine: to lose; to be lost
Tinkler: tinker
Tint: lost
Tippence: twopence
Tip: v toop
Tirl: to strip
Tirl: to knock for entrance
Tither: the other
Tittlin: whispering
Tocher: dowry
Tocher: to give a dowry
Tocher-gude: marriage portion
Tod: the fox
To-fa': the fall
Toom: empty
Toop: tup: ram
Toss: the toast
Toun: town; farm steading
Tousie: shaggy
Tout: blast
Tow: flax: a rope
Towmond: towmont: a twelvemonth
Towsing: rumpling (equivocal)
Toyte: to totter
Tozie: flushed with drink
Trams: shafts
Transmogrify: change
Trashtrie: small trash
Trews: trousers
Trig: neat: trim
Trinklin: flowing
Trin'le: the wheel of a barrow
Trogger: packman
Troggin: wares
Troke: to barter
Trouse: trousers
Trowth: in truth
Trump: a jew's harp
Tryste: a fair; a cattle-market
Trysted: appointed
Trysting: meeting
Tulyie: tulzie: a squabble; a tussle
Twa: two
Twafauld: twofold: double
Twal: twelve; the twal = twelve at night
Twalpennie worth: a penny worth (English money)
Twang: twinge
Twa-three: two or three
Tway: two
Twin: twine: to rob; to deprive; bereave
Twistle: a twist; a sprain
Tyke: a dog
Tyne: v tine
Tysday: Tuesday
