Tasting and sampling the contents of very large pots in the cellar of a sook.
The Scottish Word:

Abile.

“Ahm no sure but ahm thinking one o the forty thieves was still in there when we filled it foo wi the lard abile.”

Translate:

abile: boiling.

“I am not certain but I think one of the forty thieves was still in there when we filled it full with the lard that was boiling.”

[abile spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

Illustration Friday.
Contained.

The Scottish Word: abile with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

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