shearde

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Noun

shearde

  1. Alternative form of sheardhe
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 64:
      Reed-shearde on a mountain.
      The Red Gap on the mountain.
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 106:
      Eee crappès o' a shearde ich had a cousaane.
      In the bushes of the gap I had a hole to go through.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 106
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