What does the "dicing" mean?

[Raptor]

Then just to confuse the issue, in some regiments wearing dicing depended on your rank...

[haukehaien]

Then just to confuse the issue, in some regiments wearing dicing depended on your rank...

Exactly! And in many pipe bands the drummers have dicing while the pipers don't ....

[beloitpiper]

Exactly! And in many pipe bands the drummers have dicing while the pipers don't ....

Yeah, the only reason I wear un-diced bonnets is because I'm a piper, and (in my pipeband, at least) the pipers wear un-diced balmorals while the bass drummer wears a diced feather bonnet.

Not sure of the meaning, but it looks good to me!

[haukehaien]

Yeah, the only reason I wear un-diced bonnets is because I'm a piper, and (in my pipeband, at least) the pipers wear un-diced balmorals while the bass drummer wears a diced feather bonnet.

Not sure of the meaning, but it looks good to me!

I think it means that the pipers are Hanoverian Jacobites who support the restoration of Cromwell, whilst the bass drummer is a Protestant Catholic Highlander from Glasgow, or something. At least that's what I get when I try to absorb the whole thread.

[Macman]

I think it means that the pipers are Hanoverian Jacobites who support the restoration of Cromwell, whilst the bass drummer is a Protestant Catholic Highlander from Glasgow, or something. At least that's what I get when I try to absorb the whole thread.

I like that explanation! This thread kind of reminds me of the thread about all the different meanings there are to what you do with your bonnet ribbons! I doubt we'll ever know the "real" answers, if ever there were any.

[MacWage]

I like that explanation! This thread kind of reminds me of the thread about all the different meanings there are to what you do with your bonnet ribbons! I doubt we'll ever know the "real" answers, if ever there were any.

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