dòrnan
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
dòrn (“fist”) + -an
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t̪ɔːɾnan/
Noun
dòrnan m (genitive singular dòrnain, plural dòrnanan)
- diminutive of dòrn
- small fist
- small handful
- part of an oar grasped in the hand in rowing
- handful of lint
- mitten
- handful of corn cut with one stroke of the reaping-hook
- sheaf of barley
- (Lewis) small rope with eyelets in each end which goes round the head-post in a byre and to which the neck-rope of a cow is tied, the end being reeved through the eyelets
- small bundle
- the part of a tether between the swivel and the animal