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but and ben
noun
- a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen ( but ) and an inner room ( ben )
Example Sentences
But now she had to explain that a “grice” was a pig and that “but” and “ben” meant in and out.
Ben, ben, prep. and adv. in toward the inner apartment of a house.—n. the inner apartment of a house, as opposed to the But or kitchen through which one must generally pass first.—To be far ben with one, to be on terms of great intimacy or friendship with; To live but and ben, to live respectively in these rooms, in close neighbourhood with any one.
They settled in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, in a "but and ben"�two rooms in a row of brick tenements on Gray Street, near the factory.
Up the close and down the stair, But and ben wi' Burke and Hare.
I have come to tell ye that it is neither Christian nor decent to bring up the wee thing but and ben wi' a kenned ill-doer like Daft Jeremy, that has twice been tried for his life for the shedding of blood!'
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