Meaning of howdie | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“It's a beautiful point⟳ of presumptive murder⟳, and there's been nane like⟳ it in the Justiciar Court since the case of Luckie Smith the howdie, that suffered in the year saxteen hundred and seventy-nine.”

“Sae Beatrice wis ready whan she wis cried on in the middle o the nicht tae halp the howdie. It wis a saicont bairn, an Derriakin wis muckle-boukit, sae the birth gaed quick.”

“'I've sent Davie for Lizzie, the howdie,' she said. 'Ye're not to worry⟳. A seven month bairn can survive⟳.'”

“The children born in Hawick in the olden times were, with few exceptions, ushered into the world with the aid of the howdie or midwife; for the practice of midwifery was, unless in very special cases, almost confined to women.”

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