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` ` Bigging a dry-stane dyke, I think, wi 'the grey geese, as they ca' thae great loose stanes --- Odd, that passes a 'thing I e'er heard tell of!' '
The Black Dwarf 1898
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"Biggin a dry-stane dyke, I think, wi 'the grey geese, as they ca' thae great loose stanes -- Odd, that passes a 'thing I e'er heard tell of!"
The Black Dwarf Walter Scott 1801
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“Biggin a dry-stane dyke, I think, wi’ the grey geese, as they ca’ thae great loose stanes — Odd, that passes a’ thing I e’er heard tell of!”
The Black Dwarf 2004
bilby commented on the word dry-stane
Scots - a construction method based on fitting stones together without mortar.
December 28, 2007