chumley-lug

Updated: May 3, 2025

I was sitting on a laigh stool at the fireside, between the chumley-lug and the gown-tail of old Nanse Snoddie, my mother's aunty, a godly woman, that in her eild we took care of; and as young and old came in, the salutation was in silence, as of guests coming to a burial.

John Galt - Ringan Gilhaize: or The Covenanters