proota - Hamely Tongue

proota ~ a potato. bag prootas (see bag). bud prootas remove sprouts from stored potatoes (when preparing for use or for sale). drap prootas plant potatoes by hand. dry prootas (see dry). gether prootas pick potatoes spun out by the digger (hence proota-getherers those — often casual workers — so employed). lift prootas lift potatoes from the pit² (usu. to bud, wal and bag for sale). muddle prootas remove (a meal of) potatoes from the drill by hand, leaving the plants to continue growing (also loc. middle). proota-basket a cot-shaped basket used in picking potatoes (and holding about a half-hundredweight). proota-beds a field from which potatoes have been harvested. proota-box a box for storing seed potatoes (and so designed as to be rested on and moved along the ridge of the drill with one hand while the seeds are ‘dropped’ with the other). proota-bruiser a utensil for mashing potatoes finely (esp. when making champ). proota-chute a sloped wooden structure on which potatoes are sorted (see wal) and bagged (see bag). proota-epple the tomato-like fruit occasionally growing on the haulms of potatoes. proota-gun (only in fire the proota-gun break wind - Ba). proota-grun land (esp. being let) for the growing of potatoes. proota-oaten (var.of praita-oaten). proota-pit (see pit²). proota poorins (see poor¹). prootas an point (boiled) potatoes ‘flavoured’ by being pointed by the diner at the ling hanging in the kitchen, the pig hanging from the rafters, etc. (Ba,Br,E,G) proota-shovel a broad-headed, graip-like implement with rounded knobs on the ‘toes’ for lifting potatoes. proota-spinner a potato-digging machine which scatters the drill and its contents with spinning spokes. proota-taps potato haulms. sloamed prootas (see sloam). soored prootas potatoes soured from lying in wet ground. wet prootas potatoes of a wet, ‘soapy’ texture (the bane of a true potato-fancier). (Also occas. or loc. pirta, poorta, praita.) [Ir. práta]

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