Crossword-Solution: ASHET 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The science of war--what little I learned of it in the Low Countries with gentlemen esteemed my betters--convinces me that if a big enough horde fall on from the rim of our ashet, as I call it, they might sweep us into the loch like rattons.” I doubt MacCailein Mor heard little of this uncheery criticism, for he was looking in a seeming blank abstraction out of the end window at the town lights increasing in number as the minutes passed.

Betty, white-capped and white-aproned, is there also, with a large ashet in her hands, on which lies a long, thick silver fish--a salmon, as I afterwards learned--one of the many he lured from the depths of Mattha's Pool.

From Uncle Joseph he learned to enjoy the masterpieces of his native tongue, and to express himself in direct and cogent English; but it was from James Nimmo that he picked up such colloquial _patois_ as "ashet" and "gigot" and "besom." He also referred at times to "the morn's morn," and was accustomed to enquire of his uncle, "Are you not for another cup of tea?" or, "Will I open the window?" It was to James Nimmo, too, that Philip owed his first introduction to poetry.

MacGlashan's threepenny mutton-pies (twopence if you brought the ashet back), ordinarily only to be had on fair-days and on Saturdays, and far renowned for value.

You were feared to affront the landlady by leaving her ancient fish on the ashet, and you egged me on to do the grumbling.” “Well, it's as sure as death, Paul,” said he shamefacedly, “I hate to vex a woman.