bailc

bailc
I
a ridge, beam, Welsh balc, from English balk.
II
seasonable rain, showers:

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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  • Bauk — The balk, back, bauk Lowland Scots, leum iochd or bailc/bac Scottish Gaelic was a strip of a corn field left fallow. The fear of being left with the last sheaf of the harvest called the cailleach (kulyach etc) or gobhar bhacach (the goat of the… …   Wikipedia

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