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noust Sc. dial.|naʊst, nuːst|
Also † newst, noost, † nowst.
[ad. Norw. dial. naust(r), nøst, f. ON. naust boat-shed, dock.]
‘The place in which a boat is hauled up, gen. a scooped-out trench at the edge of a beach surrounded by a shallow wall of stones, a boat-stance in gen.’ (Sc. Nat. Dict.) Also fig.
The pronunc. |naʊst| is used in Orkney, |nuːst| in Shetland.
1613Court Bk. Orkney & Shetland (1967) 76 William Ewinsone..found her lying..beneath the boat nowst in Wytfoord. a1693T. Brown Diary (1898) 63 Ther wes a great boat blowen owt of the Newst at the Air. 1869J. T. Reid Art Rambles 41 Down to the boat-noust the trio hirpled. 1894L. J. Nicolson Songs of Thule 79 My fecht is owre wi' wind an' wave Da Noost is noo da quiet grave. 1922Glasgow Herald 22 July 86 Her bow could be seen in the ‘noust’. Ibid., In the afternoon at ebb tide they went down to take the boats out of the ‘nousts’. 1931J. Nicolson Tales 55 When a boat was taken from its ‘noost’, and put into the water, the bow had to be turned ‘sun-gaets’. 1956C. M. Costie Benjie's Bodle 7 Jamie Peace sitting at the noust sorting his creels. 1971G. M. Brown Fishermen with Ploughs 69 He coughed his way to the noust And launched the Belle. |