Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hired mourner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A hired mourner at a funeral.
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As the funeral winds its way towards the mountain cemetery he hovers aloft in the air -- or, swooping down nearer to the bier, precedes the corpse like a sable saulie.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
sionnach commented on the word saulie
A hired mourner.
February 4, 2008