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killogie, -logy Sc. Now rare or Obs.|kɪˈləʊgɪ|
Also 7, 9 kiln-logie.
[f. kill, kiln + logie, sometimes used in the same sense as killogie.]
The covered space in front of the fireplace of a kiln, serving to give draught to the fire and to shelter the person attending to it; formerly often used as a place for sheltering or hiding in.
15..King Berdok (Bann. MS.) 31 Berdok fled in till a killogy. 1563Edin. Town Council Rec. 18 June, Ihonne Knox was apprehendit and tane forth of ane killogye. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1829) 27 This night he was laid in the kiln-logie. 1815Scott Guy M. vi, The muckle chumlay in the Auld Place reeked like a killogie in his time. 1881W. Gregor Folk-lore 84 (E.D.D.) This clue was cast into the kiln-logie. |