- a term for the south because the wind generally blows from the south during a thaw; The mermaids can ought thole [can endure anything] But frost out o’ the thow hole Auld superstitions say (John MacTaggart The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia 1824). Fortunately for mermaids, frosts from the south are less usual than ones from the north.
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