Definition & Meaning | English word BIRLINN
BIRLINN
Definitions of BIRLINN
- (Scotland, historical) A type of boat used especially in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in the Middle Ages.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using BIRLINN in a Sentence
- A more warts and all account of Ritchie's life appeared in Flawed Genius; Scottish Football's Self Destructive Mavericks (Birlinn 2009).
- Strang, Dougie (2023), The Bone Cave: A Journey Through Myth and Memory, Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh,.
- The longship was gradually succeeded by (in ascending order of size) the birlinn, highland galley and lymphad, which, were clinker-built ships, usually with a centrally-stepped mast, but also with oars that allowed them to be rowed.
- While a pupil at Oban High School, she was inspired by many of her teachers, especially her English teacher, the poet Iain Crichton Smith, and John Maclean, the Rector (Headmaster) of the school, a native of the Island of Raasay, a classical scholar, and the brother of poet Sorley Maclean, from whom she learned a large number of Gaelic songs and to whom she dedicated her seminal book Songs of Gaelic Scotland (Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2005).
- Mercat Press was bought by Birlinn Ltd in 2007 and the Fizzers book went out of print in 2011 but is still available from online retailers.
- ;Birlinn: (Scots) Clinker-built vessel, single-masted with a square sail also capable of being rowed.
- The flag has a birlinn in the canton, and there are five oars representing the five areas of Skye, Trotternish, Waternish, Duirinish, Minginish, and Sleat.
- He is the author of the successful Stronach book series and Spik o the Place, and co-author (with Robbie Shepherd) of four anthologies of anecdotes relating to the Doric dialect of the North East of Scotland, published by Canongate Books and Birlinn as the Dash o Doric series.
- Shetland Rambles: A sketching tour (Birlinn 2011), retracing Victorian artist John Thomas Reid's sketching tour in and around Shetland.
- In the Highlands and Islands, the longship was gradually succeeded by (in ascending order of size) the birlinn, highland galley and lymphad, which, were clinker-built ships, usually with a centrally-stepped mast, but also with oars that allowed them to be rowed.
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