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The Broad Scots Dictionary

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Tackets - "a kind of nails for driving into the heels of shoes"
Tae - "a toe" Three-tae'd, having three prongs"
Tairge - "a target"
Tak - "to take" Takin' "taking"
Tamtallan - "the name of a mountain"
Tangle - "a sea-weed"
Tap - "the top"
Targe - to cross-question"
Tarry-breeks - "a sailor"
Tassie - "a small drinking-cup"
Tauld or Tald - "told"
Taupie - "a foolish, thoughtless young person"
Tedding - "spreading after the mower"
Teen - "to provoke, provocation"
Teethless bawtie - "toothless cur"
Ten-hours'bite - "a slight feed to the horses while in the yoke, in the forenoon"
Tent - "a field pulpit; heed, caution; to take heed; to tend or herd cattle"
Tentie - "heedful, cautious"
Tentless - "heedless"
Teugh - "tough"
Thack - "thatch"
Thae - "these"
Thairms - "small guts; fiddle-strings"
Thankit - "thanked"
Theekit - "thatched"
Thegither - "together"
Themsel - "themselves"
Thick - "intimate, familiar"
Thieveless - "cold, dry, spited; spoken of a person's demeanour"
Thigger - "one who seeks alms"
Thirl - "thrill"
Thirled - "thrilled, vibrated"
Thole - "to suffer, to endure"
Thrang - "throng, a crowd"
Thrapple - "throat, windpipe"
Thrave - "twenty-four sheaves, or two shocks of corn; a considerable number"
Thraw - "to sprain, to twist, to contradict"
Thrawin' - "twisting, etc."
Thrawn - "sprained, twisted, contradicted"
Threap - "to maintain by dint of assertion"
Threshin' - "thrashing"
Threteen - "thirteen"
Thristle - "thistle"
Through - "to go on with, to make out"
Throuther - "pell-mell, confusedly"
Thrum - "the thread at the end of a web"
Thud - "to make a loud, intermittent noise"
Thumpit - "thumped"
Theysel - "thyself"
Till't - "to it"
Timmer - "timber"
Tine - "to lose" Tint "lost"
Tinkler - "a tinker"
Tint the gate - "lost the way"
Tip - "a ram"
Tippence - "twopence"
Tirlin' - "uncovering"
Tither - "the other"
Tittle - "to whisper"
Tittlin' - "whispering"
Tocher - "marriage portion"
Tod - "a fox"
Toddle - "to totter, like the walk of a child"
Toddlin' - "tottering"
Too-fa' - "a building added"
Toom - "empty, to empty"
Toop - "a ram"
Tosie - "warm and ruddy"
Toss - "a toast"
Toun - "a hamlet, a farm-house"
Tout - "the blast of a horn or trumpet; to blow a horn, etc."
Touzle - "to ruffle"
Tow - "a rope"
Towmond - "a twelvemonth"
Towzie - "rough, shaggy"
Toy - "a very old fashion of female head-dress"
Transmugrified - "transmigrated, metamorphosed"
Trews - "trowers"
Trickie - "full of tricks"
Trig - "spruce, neat"
Trimly - "excellently"
Trinklin' - "trickling"
Trinle or trintle - "the wheel of a barrow; to roll"
Trow - "to believe"
Trowth - "truth, a petty oath"
Tryste - "an appointment; a fair"
Trysted - "appointed" To tryste "to make an appointment"
Try't - "tried"
Tug - "raw hide, of which in old times plough traces were frequently made"
Tulzie - "a quarrel, to quarrel, a fight"
Twa - "two"
Twa-three - "a few"
'Twad - "it would"
Twal - "twelve" Twalpenny-worth "a small quantity, a pennyworth- One penny English is twelve-pence Scotch"
Twin - "to part"
Twistle - "to twist"
Tyke - "a dog"
Tysday - "Tuesday"

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