Brewer's: Culross Girdles

The thin plate of iron used in Scotland for the manufacture of oaten cakes is called a “girdle,” for which Culross was long celebrated.

“Locks and bars, plough-graith and barrow-teeth! and why not grates and fireprongs, and Culross girdles?” —Scott: Fair Maid of Perth, chap. ii.

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