Meaning of croggan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A limpet shell.
   Cornwall
2. A clay urn made by hand in the Outer Hebrides.
   Scotland

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Examples

“Then she saw⟳ Tom sitting on the chimney-stool, and his wife taking on the tip⟳ of her finger from a croggan (limpet-shell) what appeared to be salve, which she rubbed over her husband's eyes.”

“Conjurors and parsons were brought in, who for a time bound the troublesome ghost to emptying Dozmary Pool on Bodmin with a "croggan" or limpet shell.”

“From time immemorial "croggans" and "bollachans" or milk basins were made out of clay by the people in the district for their domestic use⟳, but besides these there is no record⟳ of any other utensils having been manufactured.”

“He had sent the ground officer with a "croggan of tar" with which he marked the ears of all the stock⟳.”

“In the Western Isles a native tradition of building pots, known as croggans, by hand, survived into the 20th century.”

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