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Cabag, a cheese (Scot. Kebbuck). Proverb or Saying " Gearr cul 



cabag, 's na gearr d' ordag " — (Cut the rind of a Kebbuck, 



but do not cut your thumb). 

 Caise, cheese. 



Caiteag, a butter pot or dish. 

 Ce, ceath, cream. 

 Ceo, second milk. 

 Ceud-bhainne, first milk (Cet or ceth-blegon or blegun, 



Ir. W. S.). 

 Cilorn, ciolarn, ciolurn, a milk pitcher, with handle out of its 



side, also called a hand-can or hand-mother. 

 Coidhean, coidi (Ir.), a vessel to hold cream similar to but 



much broader at the bottom and narrower at the mouth 



than the "cuinneag." Before tin pails came into use the 



cuinneag, or stoup, was used for carrying home milk from 



the buaile, as also water from the well. 

 Cranachan, a churn ; also said to be beaten milk — a Hallowe'en 



treat — into which a ring, etc., is put. 

 Criomairt, second milk or cream. 

 Cuinneag-bhleothainn, a milk-pail. 

 Cuman, a hand milk-dish. 

 Curasan, curusan, a milk-pail. 

 Deadblegon (Ir. W. S.), last milking. 

 Deala, teat. 



Deasgainn, deasgann, or deasgainean, rennet or run net. 

 Deigheanach (Ir. deidenach), deigh-bhleoghainn or bleothainn, 



last milking. 

 Deil'-Bhainne, a milk dish or cup (Ir. dela, a cup). 

 Deinib, deirbh, a churn. 

 Drolmad-bhainne, a milk-pitcher. 

 Drochta-bhainne, milk-tub, etc. 

 Faisgean, a cheese vat (lit. a squeezer or presser). 

 Faisgre, a cheese — O'Clery — wooden cup, bicker or quaich. 

 Finn, finne, milk (lit. white). 

 Fiodhach (fiodh chuach), and 

 Fiodhan, a cheese vat or wooden press. 

 Fion, fionn, milk (lit. white). 

 Fior, fir, milk (i.e., true, pure, white"). 

 Geal-lacht, unskimmed milk (Ir. id). 



Geart, gert, milk — " Gun gert fearba," without milk of cows. 

 Geat, curds. 

 Gogan, a hand milk-dish, much the same as " cuman." " Laogh- 



gogan," hand-reared calf — also a lout of a lad. 

 Gruitin, salt, old or sour butter (Ir. goirsten). 

 Gruth, gruitheam, curds. In the song " Posadh piuthar Iain 



Bhain " we find these lines : — 



Bha im ann 'us bha gruitheam ann 

 Bha caise laidir ridhinn ann. 



