Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The pollack.

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Examples

  • His last project was developing a community pub in Carlton for the villages of Coverdale in North Yorkshire, where he and his wife, Felicity, who he married in 1964, had restored a laithe house.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2012

  • Ma teccmai lith laithe no Dai! nothb - comracc tuaithe mani - toire a gell do nofet befid fiu dofli kin log - aenech do each fomiad la eraicc do neoch do ruirmcfcm difmachtaibh

    Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis 1786

  • He and Donald Roy are far ben (intimate), and when I came knocking at his window at cock-craw he was no 'very laithe to gie me a bit chack (lunch). "

    A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

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