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leglen Sc.|ˈlɛglən|
Also 8–9 leglin, 9 leglan.
[? variant of laggin.]
A milk pail. Also attrib. leglen-girth, the lowest hoop upon a leglen. to cast a leglen-girth: to have an illegitimate child (cf. laggin 3).
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. iv, [When] I to milk the ewes first tried my skill, To bear a leglen was nae toil to me. c1750Miss Elliot Song, ‘Flowers of the Forest’ ii, Ilk ane lifts her leglin, and hies her away. 1822Scott Let. to Joanna Baillie 10 Feb. in Lockhart, Miss Edgeworth..carries her literary reputation as..easily as the milk maid in my country does the leglan. 1822― Nigel xxxii, Ganging a wee bit gleed in her walk through the world; I mean in the way of..casting a leglin-girth, or the like. 1881Sands Sketches of Tranent 20 A leglen or milking pail of excellent small beer. |