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Dab, Din
etc.
Hab Dab and David Din
Ding the deil o'er Dabson's Linn.
“Hab Dab” means Halbert Dobson; “David Din” means David Dun;
and “Dabson's Linn,” or Dob's Linn, is a waterfall near the head of
Moffat Water.
Dobson and Dun were two Cameronians who lived for security in a cave
in the ravine. Here, as they said, they saw the devil in the form of a
pack of dried hides, and after fighting the “foul fiend” for some time,
they dinged him into the waterfall.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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