tarraing

-e & tàirgne, pl. -ean & tàirgnean, sf Drawing, act of drawing or pulling, act of dragging or hauling along. 2** Draught, pull, drag. 3 Act of attracting. 4 Alluring or enticing. 5 Distilling, act of distilling. 6 Act of drawing liquor from a cask. 7 Act of drawing, painting or delineating. 8 Taking a photograph. 9 Drawing near. 10 Any weight or bulk that is drawn. 11 Extracting plaster. 12* Demand. 13 Halyard. 14(MMcN) Peak halyard-sheets, No. 2, p. 75. 16 Carriage-trace — W. of Ross. 16‡‡ Season of.time, while, turn. 17(DU) Low, distant thunder (pl. tarraingean). [†† pl. tàirngean]. Cuir tarraing air, put an extracting plaster on it; a dh'aon tarraing, at once, at one time; tarraing chailleach, drawing in a slovenly manner (tarraing chailleach is to take load No. 1 say, a quarter of a mile, turn back for load No. 2 and drop it with No. 1; then take up the latter and advance with it another quarter of a mile; then go back for No. 2, and so on till both are at destination; thus a person may fetch two loads simultaneously, (although there is no saving in time or labour, with the additional disadvantage of one load being left unguarded by the roadside most of the time); air a' chiad tarrang, at the first time, at once; tarraing éisg, a draught of fishes; tarraing dùbailt, double-distilled liquor; 'se seo mo tharraing-sa, this it my turn. A' tarraing, pr pt of tarraing.

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