- The name
gowk stane (English:
cuckoo stone or fool's stone) has been
applied to
certain standing stones and
glacial erratics in Scotland,
often found in...
- range.[verification needed] Old folk
names include "mire snipe", "horse
gowk", "heather bleat", and the
variant spelling "snite". See
snipe for other...
-
Gowk (Persian: گوك, also
Romanized as Govak) is a
village in
Howmeh Rural District, in the
Central District of Bam County,
Kerman Province, Iran. At the...
- of "hunt the
gowk",
gowk being Scots for a
cuckoo or a
foolish person;
alternative terms in
Gaelic would be Là na Gocaireachd, "
gowking day", or Là Ruith...
-
megalithic tomb
Fulacht fiadh –
Burned mound from the
Bronze Age in
Ireland Gowk stane –
Standing stones and
glacial erratics in
Scotland Henge – Type of...
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people of Coggeshall, Es****; the "carles" of Austwick, Yorkshire; the "
gowks" of Gordon, Berwickshire; and for many
centuries the
charge of
folly has...
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people of Coggeshall, Es****, the "carles" of Austwick, Yorkshire, the "
gowks" of Gordon, Berwickshire, and for many
centuries the
charge of
folly has...
- Mice and Men,
Private Lives, Oleanna,
Sunset Song, The
Silver Darlings, The
Gowk Storm,
Waiting for Godot,
Dancing at Lughnasa,
Oedipus Tyrannos and A Midsummer...
-
based on this. In Scotland,
gowk stanes (cuckoo stones)
sometimes ****ociated with the
arrival of the
first cuckoo of spring. "
Gowk" is an old name for the...
- (coldhome),
Corby Knowe (raven knoll)
Glarryford from 'glaurie' (muddy),
Gowks Hill (cuckoo) and
Loanends (where the
lanes end) in
County Antrim, Crawtree...
