lea-rig

It is founded on an older ditty, beginning, "I'll rowe thee o'er the lea-rig."

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

What brought _you_ to Galloway, where the Celt sits on every hill-top, names every farm and lea-rig, and lights his

The Dew of Their Youth 1887

-- He lived, then, at the Cleikum, as I tell you, for mair than a fortnight, as quiet as a lamb on a lea-rig -- a decenter lad never came within my door -- ate and drank eneugh for the gude of the house, and nae mair than was for his ain gude, whether of body or soul -- cleared his bills ilka

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

He lived, then, at the Cleikum, as I tell you, for mair than a fortnight, as quiet as a lamb on a lea-rig — a decenter lad never came within my door — ate and drank eneugh for the gude of the house, and nae mair than was for his ain gude, whether of body or soul — cleared his bills ilka Saturday at e’en, as regularly as

Saint Ronan's Well 2008