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roon Sc.|røn|
Also roen, roond, and rund.
[Of obscure origin.]
A piece of the list or selvage of cloth; a strip or shred. Also roon-shoon (see quot. 1824).
1785Burns To W. Simpson Postscr. iii, They thought the Moon, Just like a sark, or pair o' shoon, Woor by degrees, till her last roon Gaed past their viewin. 1808Jamieson, Roon, a shred, a remnant,..also roond. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl., Roon-shoon, shoes made of the roons, or selvages of cloth. 1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 179 The best o' wabs are rough at the roons. |