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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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garlan
noun
a boat or ship
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caran
etymology:
origin obscure; perhaps a development from Shelta
kara
‘a boat’ or perhaps only found Scots Gypsy language; attested by Fife gipsies and collected by Simson (1865)