scarts

Nevertheless, he criticised considerably the mode of placing the guns on the battery we have noticed, observing, that “where cannon were perched, like to scarts or sea-gulls on the top of a rock, he had ever observed that they astonished more by their noise than they dismayed by the skaith or damage which they occasioned.”

A Legend of Montrose 2008

Next day, the sea was unapproachable; but the next they had a pleasant passage to Poolewe, hugging the cliffs, the falling swell bursting close by them in the gullies, and the black scarts that sat like ornaments on the top of every stack and pinnacle, looking down into the Purgle as she passed.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

In front of the great wall of rock the sea-birds wheeled and screamed, and on the points of some of the islands stood several scarts, motionless figures of jet black on the soft brown and green of the rock.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

"Come in, lads, come in; the lassies are weary waiting for their lads, the poor bit things, sair negleckit on this weary isle, wi 'nane to see their ankles but scarts [1] and solangeese."

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

Aberfoil are like the scarts and seamaws at the Cumries --- there's aye foul weather follows their skirting. ''

Rob Roy 1887

Next day, the sea was unapproachable; but the next they had a pleasant passage to Poolewe, hugging the cliffs, the falling swell bursting close by them in the gullies, and the black scarts that sat like ornaments on the top of every stack and pinnacle, looking down into the Purgle as she passed.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 1887

Nevertheless; he criticised considerably the mode of placing the guns on the battery we have noticed, observing, that, ` ` where cannon were perched, like to scarts, or sea-gulls, on the top of a rock, he had ever observed that they astonished more by their noise than they dismayed by the skaith or damage which they occasioned. ''

A Legend of Montrose 1871

Hen scarts and filly tails, make lofty ships wear lowly sails.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

Pleading at the law is like fighting through a whin bush -- the harder the blows the sairer the scarts.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

Peden, when I heard him call the death and testimony of our happy martyrs but draps of blude and scarts of ink in respect of fitting discharge of our duty; and what suld I think of ony thing the like of me can do? ''

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822