collecting words at gylly

lately i've been doing a lot of sewing and as much as i love my trusty singer we'd been spending too much time together and were beginning to get on each other's nerves. i had to escape, if only briefly. i headed down to gylly for a much needed break and a very blustery walk in the wind.

a little fragment of burnt paper blew into my legs and then away again. i chased it and managed to pin it down. it turned out to be a piece of a dictionary. and as i walked along the beach i found more.... and more..... a little bit like a treasure hunt. i became absorbed in collecting these 'e' and 'f' words and wondered where the snippets of text might lead me. i still don't know but curiously on every piece (except one) was some mention of ships or the sea.

the words that i found on the beach:

haddock n. smoke cured

like or having fins

narrow arm between cliffs

firkin n. small cask

harbour

or ship

small island in river

for protection out of ship(s)

-boat, seaplane with

of two kinds of fish

for warning ships in fog

calm

forestay n. stay from foremast

to ship's stem

of barnacle

shallow

and aft sails

cabin, ship

flat-fish

whale's tail

in flow of tide

flood water

flotilla n. small fleet 

flotsam n. floating

flipper n, limb used to

covered by tides or shallow

fish

turbot, plaice etc

or boats under sail

admiral or vice-admiral

ship

business of fishing

of or like fish

oysters

of siamese fish

fish, kind

and fishing

take or go in boat

over river, lake etc

or across ocean or continent

fender n. a thing used to keep

hung over vessel's side