trowlingn.
Orkney and Shetland.
A young or infant ‘trow’ or troll.
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1840 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. (1845) XV. 142 [Shetland] Females newly confined must..be watched..lest they be carried off to perform the office of wet-nurse to some trowling of gentle blood.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.1840- sallow
- sallow bush
- sallow charcoal
- sallow kitten
- sallow land
- sallow moth
- sallow pole
- sallow stake
- sallow switch
- sallow thorn
- sallow tree
- sallow twig
- sallow wattle
- sallow willow
- sallow withe
- sallow wood
- sallow-coloured
- sallow-faced
- sallow-hued
- running track
- running trap
- running twitch
- running up
- running vest
- running water