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From: Year of Wonder, by Geraldine Brooks p87
...if it had not been for a hirsel from my flock losing itself moor.
Do you know hirsel Dr bill? it a sheeping term..
from the same paragraph
I was following the trail of what i hoped was their scat along a clough at the edge of the moor...
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From: Year of Wonder, by Geraldine Brooks p125
the narrator is talking about dolls (poppets)
I would form the bodies of plaited grainstalks and fashion faces from the yellow clay that lay at the base of the sillions
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From: Year of Wonder, by Geraldine Brooks p126
...a farmer allowed them to sleep the night among his cows in their warm shippon.
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The sheep on Auchtertyre and Kirkton Farms are separated into four different populations occupying different parts (hirsels) of the farm.
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Wonder where "faldage" comes into play?
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Dear of troy: I found a bunch of sites indicating that this is a French word, apparently a terrain feature. Perhaps cognate "sillon" is the groove on an old audio disk.
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