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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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stroup
noun
spout of a kettle or teapot:
If you filled a kettle with tobacco this lassie would smoke it to the bottom through the stroup, without a halt.
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etymology:
Scots; also Scots Gaelic and Irish
strùb
,
srùb
‘nose, spout’; attested by
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