TO CAST A LEGLINGIRTH, verb. phr. (Scots’).—To be got with child. [LEGLIN = milkpail + GIRTH = hoop.]
d. 1758. RAMSAY, Poems (1800), i. 274.
| | Or bairns can read, they first maun spell, |
| I learn’d this frae my mammy, |
| And COOST A LEGEN GIRTH mysel, |
| Lang or I married Tammie. |
