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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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beenship mashlam
noun
good metal or tin
20
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etymology:
beenship
‘
good, great, grand
’
+
mashlam
‘brass, metal or tin’; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; also collected by Simson (1865) and attested by one of his informants