Lexicographical Neighbors of Scails
Literary usage of Scails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records Relating to the Early History of Boston by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept (1889)
"Months notice to the Selectmen, at any time within the said term of Seven Years —
Mem". the Beam & scails & Weights are to be put in proper repair at the ..."
2. Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept (1889)
"Months notice to the Selectmen, at any time within the said term of Seven Years —
Mem0. the Beam & scails & Weights are to be put in proper repair at the ..."
3. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1853)
"... coming from the water, HIB scails ... and vast' (from MILT on) And had tore
off several scails in the confusion Besides ..."
4. Historical Collections of the Essex Institute by Essex Institute (1864)
"of John scails married December the twenty eight. Joseph Jewel and Rebekah Law
married March the second. Anno 1677. Samuel Smith and Elizabeth ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"His scails ... and vast ' (from MILTON) And had tore oil' several scails in the
confusion Besides ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1875)
"... together in eager converse ; and the good wives go home in groups when " the
kirk scails," discoursing, we fear, of other subjects than the sermon. ..."
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