Crossword-Solution: GIED 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Slam-bang too much -- they knock a wee -- the crosshead-gibs are loose; But thirty thousand mile o' sea has gied them fair excuse.

Fra' skylight-lift to furnace-bars, backed, bolted, braced an' stayed, An' singin' like the Mornin' Stars for joy that they are made; While, out o' touch o' vanity, the sweatin' thrust-block says: “Not unto us the praise, or man -- not unto us the praise!” Now, a' together, hear them lift their lesson -- theirs an' mine: “Law, Orrder, Duty an' Restraint, Obedience, Discipline!” Mill, forge an' try-pit taught them that when roarin' they arose, An' whiles I wonder if a soul was gied them wi' the blows.

Weel, Sandy was forrit wi’ the jib sheet; we couldnae see him for the mains’l, that had just begude to draw, when a’ at ance he gied a skirl.

Soulis to the guidwives, “home with ye, one and all, and pray to God for His forgiveness.” And he gied Janet his arm, though she had little on her but a sark, and took her up the clachan to her ain door like a leddy of the land; an’ her scrieghin’ and laughin’ as was a scandal to be heard.

Them that kenned best said least; but they never gied that Thing the name o’ Janet M’Clour; for the auld Janet, by their way o’t, was in muckle hell that day.