Definition of Skelf

1. a splinter of wood [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skelf

skeletonised
skeletonises
skeletonising
skeletonization
skeletonizations
skeletonize
skeletonized
skeletonizer
skeletonizers
skeletonizes
skeletonizing
skeletonlike
skeletons
skeletons in the closet
skeletons in the cupboard
skelf (current term)
skelfs
skell
skelled
skellie
skellied
skellier
skellies
skelliest
skelling
skellington
skellingtons
skelloch
skellochs
skells

Literary usage of Skelf

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Dialect Grammar: Comprising the Dialects of England, of the by Joseph Wright (1905)
"Wm. /«//se.Ken. fei/ Inv. w.Frf. e.Per. Ayr., but n.Ayr.+skelf, Lth. Edb. Kcb. Ant. sw. & s.Nhb. Dur. m. Cum. Wm., but w.Wm. skelf, sw.Yks. Lan. I.Ma. n. ..."

2. Highways and Byways in the Border by Andrew Lang, John Lang (1914)
"At the skelf-hill, the cauldron still The men of Liddesdale can show ; And on the spot, where they boiled the pot, The spreat and the deer-hair ne'er shall ..."

3. Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (1861)
"... only urst of Leeds and Skutter- skelf, Esquire. The friend of Thoresby. Said to have been born in 1646. daughter of Sir John Repington of Leamington. ..."

4. Poems and Ballads by John Leyden, Walter Scott (1858)
"At the skelf-hill, the cauldron still The men of Liddesdale can show j* And ... [* "The cauldron—the muckle pot of the skelf-hill—in which Sir William was ..."

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