Focus on Literacy
Second level
Word Part
Meaning
Auld
Old
Bonny
Pretty, attractive
Bracken
Fern
Braid
Broad
Brig
Bridge
Brock
Badger
Cauld
Cold or Dam/Weir
Claver
Clover
Close
Enclosed land such as a field or a farmyard
Cot
Cottage
Craig
Rock
Craw
Crow or Pig-sty
Croft
Quality land or Small farm
Dean
Valley of woods
Den
Valley of woods
Fal
Variegated (having different colours)
Gowk
Cuckoo or Fool
Hally
Holy
Howie
Having hollows
Kip
Peak of a hill
Lang
Long
Meikle
Big
Muckle
Big
Mirk
Dark
Nether
Lower
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Focus on Literacy
Second level
Park
Field
Port
Harbour or Gate
Reisk
Boggy land
Rig
Ridge or Strip of land that is farmed
Risk
Boggy land
Sauchie
Willows
Scawd
Without plant life
Shank
Slope on a hill
Shaw
Little wood
Short
Low
Side
Hillside
Slot
Hole in the ground
Stob
Stake post
Strath
Wide valley with a river
Tack
Farm
Tap
Hill
Threap
Argument
Tod
Fox
Wall
Wall or Well
Whaup
Curlew
Whin
Gorse
Yearn
Eagle
Yonder
In the distance
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