taitfarle

[Scotch ait; farle = one of the divisions of a circular oat-cake; generally the fourth of the whole.] [FARLE.) (For signification, see etymol gy.) "Two pints of well-boilt solid sowins, Wi whauks o' gude ait - farle cowins, Wad scarce hae ser't the wretch." A. Wilson: Poems (1790), p. 91. + ait-jannocks, s. A bannock made of oats. ( Scotch .) but Mattie gie us baith a drap scimmed milk, and ane o' her thick ait - jannocks , that was as wat and raw as a divot."-Scott: Rob Roy , ch. xiv. + ait-meal. s. [Scotch aitoat; meal .] Meal made from oats. [AIT.] ( Scotch .) ""Four bows o' aitmeal , two bows o' bear, and two bows o' pease.'"-Scott: Old Mortality , ch. xx. +ait-seed, taitseed, s. seed.] 1. The act of sowing oats. [Scotch ait ; and that the haill month of March sal be vacant for the aitseed."-Acts Ja. VI. (1587). 2. The season at which oat-sowing takes place. "Quhan did that happen? During the aitseed ."Jamie son.