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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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eldrin
noun
old things:
And they walked about, this gold watch and chain across their breast, ye ken, this gold eldrin hanging down.
20-
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etymology:
a development from Scots
eldrin
‘elderly, advanced in years’; only attested by
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