Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Scotch form of
scale .
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- noun obsolete, Scotland
scale
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Examples
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PF, in the course of his troubadouresque wanderings, has washed up for the night here in Peekskill, where he has brought to my attention the remarkable Douglas Young translations from Greek into Scots, in particular his translation of The Frogs which he called The Puddocks by Aristophanes:Aeschylus will heave his verses, ruit and word, and gar them flee, breenge, and skail the monie stourbaths whaur he rowes his poesie.
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One was to stand in the open at dinner-time and see the flitting forms of the healthy, rosy sonsie bairns in the wood, and from the door in the afternoon to watch the schule skail till each group was lost in the kindly shadow, and the merry shouts died away in this quiet place.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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Tammy,” I cried, “what for wad ye skail a dacent tinkler lad intil a cauld sea?
Greenmantle 2005
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"Maister Tammy," I cried, "what for wad ye skail a dacent tinkler lad intil a cauld sea?
Greenmantle John Buchan 1907
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