shaure
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Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English schar.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
shaure (past participle shorne)
- shore
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
- Na speen to be multh, nar flaase to be shaure.
- no teat to be milked, nor fleece to be shorn.
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 66