Lexicographical Neighbors of Faikes
Literary usage of Faikes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the Parish of Lesmahagow by John Blackwood Greenshields (1864)
"Sandstone, faikes, Blaise, Limestone, Blaise and Sandstone, - Gas and Dross Coal,
Sandstone and Blaise, - Coal, with 11 inches Fire-clay, - Sandstone and ..."
2. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"There is nothing between it and the surface earth but faikes. The coal seam
presents first 3 feet 2 inches of coal, then 3 inches of clay, ..."
3. Advanced Text-book of Geology Descriptive and Industrial by David Page (1876)
"The term post is frequently applied to express a thick, uniform-grained stratum
of sandstone ; and faikes, a thin-bedded shaly sandstone of irregular ..."
4. Advanced text-book of geology, descriptive and industrial: Descriptive by David Page (1867)
"The term post is frequently applied to express a thick, uniform-grained stratum
of sandstone; and faikes, a thin-bedded shaly sandstone of irregular ..."
5. A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their Etymology, and Affinity to by John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett (1846)
"By MY faikes ! a kind of minced oath ; equivalent to faith, upon my faith—verily.
Sc.fegs. FAIL, adj. means soil or turf as used in the North in a fail dyke ..."
6. A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: With Their Etymology, and by John Trotter Brockett (1829)
"BY MY faikes ! a kind of minced oath; equivalent to faith, upon my faith—verily.
Sc.fegt. FAIN, glad, earnestly desirous. " Fair words make fools/am. ..."
7. The Mining Engineer (1898)
"1 1 Brushing—faikes 1 10 Floor—faikes — The principal and by far the most valuable
portion is the cannel or parrot coal, which varies in thickness from 12 ..."
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