- white cumulonimbus supposedly from a resemblance to lawyers’ wigs. These are not associated with good conditions for catching salmon: Ye needna fash yersel the day wi’ yer lang wand, for I wudna gie a pinch o’ snuff for a’ that ye’ll get; there are too many pouthered lawyrs aboot (William Scrope Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing 1885).