carlins
/ˈkɑrlɪnz/
noun
- A type of pea, especially a black or brown variety, often dried and used in traditional Scottish or Northern English cooking.
- For the traditional dish, she soaked the carlins overnight before boiling them.
- The market sold bags of dried carlins for making pea soup.
- He remembered his grandmother cooking carlins with bacon and onions.
- A woman, especially an old or coarse one; used in Scottish or Northern English dialect.
- He described the village carlin as a sharp-tongued but kind-hearted woman.
- In the old story, the carlin lived alone in a cottage on the moor.
- The children were warned about the carlin who was said to cast spells.