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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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sothering iron
noun
a soldering iron:
So I'll get a hank of wire and you can make a few [wire baskets] tomorrow, but watch the folks' weans when you are using the sothering iron.
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etymology:
Scots
sowther
‘to solder’; attested by
JS
and
BW