Shetland Words:E
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- each = adze, carpenter's tool for tapering wood (Also known as a fit-each)
- eart-fast = immoveable object (stone)
- ebb sleeper = (n) dunlin (Tringa alpina)
- ednin = (n) eagle (Low 1774)
- eela = fishing with handlines from boat
- ee = eye, one
- eebreers/eebroos = eyebrows
- eek = eke out, to add to what already exists
- eek-name = nickname
- een = eyes, one
- eence = once
- eeno = now
- eer = a very loud high pitched continious scream, also a sound made by pigs
- eerip = usually a person, but occasionally an object which the user finds contemptible
- efter = after, later (See dee efter)
- eight o clocks = (n) mid evening tea/coffee refreshment
- eil-mark = (n) a sheep who refuses to stay behind the dike and cannot be kept out of the corn
- eker = (n) tangled mess (wir coarn is in eker eftir da gale dastreen)
- eksben = (n) part of the cow's flesh next to the thigh bone which the butcher gets as his pay, lit. shoulder bone
- elbick = (n) elbow
- elishon = awl, usually bent, for making holes in leather to be sewn
- ell = (n) measure of cloth or wadmell
- elt = to mess
- eltit = dirty (Da bairn wis eltit fae head tae fit)
- elwand = (n) measuring stick for an ell
- engin = onion
- ent = heed, pay attention, acknowledge
- ere oy, oy, jeroy = (n) a great-grandchild
- eredastreen = (n) the night before last, the day before yesterday
- erne = (n) white-tailed eagle
- errands = shopping, provisions
- erse = rear, backside (He kent no his erse fae his elbick)
- erselins = reversing
- ert = the compass direction from which something is coming, where something is located, or a course to follow.
- ess = ashes
- essikert = refuse lorry
- essybucket = ash/rubbish bin
- etterscab = (n) trouble-maker, ill-natured person
- eurnaskep = (n) a mark for distinguishing sheep
- eye teeth = canine incisors
