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(for Shetland words only)
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link

n - the chain from which the pot-hook or crook was suspended over the open fire. Used in pl, da links; rope used to hold down thatch on roof or on haystack, and weighted by link-stanes.

v - to apply a link; to move in a sprightly manner; to dance. Aald Lowrie was comin linkin up da gaet laek a young een.

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