Crossword-Solution: FIAR 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Farquhar Macrae, who, in 1616, lets the teind of Gairloch for nineteen years to Alexander Mackenzie, Fiar of Gairloch, for L80 Scots yearly.

The woman, a big raw-boned field hand, set her burden awkwardly down on a table, and after staring comprehensively around, addressed the boy in a low rich voice, “Dar ain’t no mo’ call to bodda wid dat fiar, you Sampson; how come Miss T’rèse sont you lazy piece in yere tu buil’ fiar?” “Don’ know how come,” he replied, vanishing with an air of the utmost self-depreciation.

She tole me out o’ her own mouf to put’em on de fiar; she warn’t gwine pesta wid ’em.” “Warn’t gwine pesta wid ’em?” administering a cuff on the ear of the too communicative Betsy, that sent her sprawling across the table.

One of the most marked variations of dialect occurs in the pronunciation of the diphthong _eu_, which, instead of being pronounced like long _e_, is over all the North Highlands commonly pronounced like _ia_; as, nial, ian, fiar, for neul, eun, feur.

Writing of his boyhood, he says:--"No loch had pike till one black day my eldest brother inveigled me into catching a dozen small pike in the east coast Blackwater and driving them to the west, where I launched them safely into Fiar Loch, a small twenty acre sheet surrounded with bullrushes, and just boiling with innumerable trout.