darg

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  1. A day's work; a task for a day. It is sometimes redundantly called day's darg. I can do as gude a day's darg as ever I did in my life. Scott, Monastery, iii. They [the tenants] are subject also to a darg (or day's work) for every acre. Statist. Acc. of Scot., VIII. 602.
  2. Hence A certain task of work, whether more or less than the measure of a day. He never wrought a good dark, that went grumbling about. Kelly, Scotch Proverbs, p. 143.
  3. To be employed at day-work. Glad to fa' to wark that's killing, To common darguing. R. Galloway, Poems, p. 119.

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  • Navbar darg and drop - So I can rearrange my sidebar tabs —  ShanKrila
  • I just naturally like a darg round fer company--they sorter seem homelike She passed out into the bright sunshine, and clear mountain air. —  The Strange Case of Cavendish
  • The cook called him "my darg," and the men called the cook "Curry and Rice," with "old" before it mostly Rice was a little, dumpy, fat man, with a round, smooth, good-humoured face, a bald head, feet wide apart, and a big blue cotton apron. —  While the Billy Boils
  • "Carrier's darg," he said "bit en He went straight upstairs, and the stranger's door being ajar, he pushed it open and was entering without any ceremony, being of a naturally sympathetic turn of mind The blind was down and the room dim. —  The Invisible Man
  • But to ken that ane's purpose is right, and to make their heart strong, is the way to get through the warst day's darg. —  The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
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  1. Scots, sometimes spelled dargue, formerly dark, a contr. of dawerk, daywerk, daywark = day-work: see day-work.
  2. Scots, from darg, n.
 

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