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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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marrin chaet
noun
a pistol
20-
.
etymology:
possibly a development from to
mar
,
marn
‘to kill’ +
chaet
‘a thing, anything’; attested by
BS in TDITA
note:
Attested by Canadian Paul Pope (2013) with the same meaning which he defines as ‘fighting thing’.