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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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chuckie stane
noun
a small, smooth pebble:
The words came clattering out of his mouth like chuckie stanes on a tin.
19-
.
etymology:
Scots;
chuckie
diminutive of
chuck
‘to throw’ +
stane
‘stone’; collected by
RD
; attested by
BW
and
DW