ùrlar

-air, -an, sm The lowest part. 2 Floor of a house. 3 Ground floor. 4 Earth. 5 Floor of earth or clay. 6* Layer, course, vein, as in a mine. 7 Theme or groundwork of a bagpipe tune. 8 Low place or bottom among hills. 9 Bottom (inside) of a cart. 10** Pavement. 11 Floor of a boat (WC). 12 Cross-sticks of a wooden bed (WC). Ùrlar arbhair, a corn-floor; cuir ùrlar mu seach san dùnain, put course about in the dunghill; air an ùrlar, on the floor; ùrlar chlach, a pavement of stones. [Not used in the sense of floor in W of Ross, except as ùrlar-bualaidh, a threshing-floor. If the floor is of earth, clay or stone, làr is used, if of wood either upstairs or downstairs, it is called lobht — CR. At Loch Ewe ùrlar is used for floor to a limited extent, as, chuir e car dheth air an ùrlar. Ùrlar a' bhaile is the lower part of a township next the sea — DU].

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