skelf

But a mere skelf of a girl beating up another one on a busy street shouln't last seconds before someone gets involved.

Pushing an elephant up the stairs.... Jeff 2007

Despite the distraction of pain, his detective skills had successfully decoded the human skelf 's eponymous, punctuatory ejaculation.

Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

Despite the distraction of pain, his detective skills had successfully decoded the human skelf 's eponymous, punctuatory ejaculation.

Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

It was howkit oot -- whether oot o 'hard yird or saft stane, I dinna ken; I reckon it wud be some no sae hard kin' o 'a rock -- and whan the deid was laid intil 't, they biggit up the mou o' the place, that is, frae that same skelf to the ane 'at was abune 't, and sae a' was weel closed in. '

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

It wasna an ill w'y to beery fowk, nor an ill place to gang til, for they aye biggit up the skelf, ye ken.

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

They're her beuks maistly upo 'the skelf there abune yer ain, Mr. Sutherlan'.

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

Hewson, an honest cottar, wi 'Shakspeare an' the Arabian Nichts upo 'a skelf i' the hoose wi '' im.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

Warp now designates a curve in wood usually caused by damp, but once it also meant the intermittent controlled flooding of warped land, skelf land, what the Dutch call polder, to bring in thin layers of mud deemed useful as fertilizer.

How to Read the Land The MIT Press Reader 2022