neep lantern
(Scotland) A lantern made from a hollowed-out turnip, traditionally used as decoration at Halloween.
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(Scotland) A lantern made from a hollowed-out turnip, traditionally used as decoration at Halloween.
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- neep66%
(chiefly, Scotland) The swede (rutabaga); turnip.
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(chiefly, Scotland) mashed swede (called "turnip" in Scotland), especially when served with tatties (potatoes) and haggis.
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A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
- neuk52%
(Scotland, Northumbria) A corner; a nook. A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, [nook] - "Robert Burns", by William Allan Neilson (1917).