Local gives alternative directions to the main way that required hanging on to chains over a sheer drop and dodging falling rocks.
The Scottish Word:

Bygate.

“There’s a bygate thon wye – it is shorter but mainly it’s mair interesting.”

Translate:

gate: path, a way, a road (bygate: a side path).

“There is a byway that goes in that direction – it is shorter but mainly it is more interesting.”

[bygate spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

The Scottish Word: bygate 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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