- a blinding snowstorm, to snow heavily. This is another Shetland word. Wi da snaa moorie-kaavie’n it ye widna a seen a skorie [a young black-backed gull] apo’ da stem-heid [prow of the boat]. (Shetland Times 14 March 1931).
Again we are reminded of the dangers of weather: Nae waanderin da hills wi’ a moorcavie proogin [poking] inta every fan [snowdrift] fur karcages [carcases] (Joseph Gray Lowrie 1949).