Lexicographical Neighbors of Skellochs
Literary usage of Skellochs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... if it ii much dunged, runs excessively to ranches, skellochs, &c., and is full
of quickens and couch grass." Maxwell's Sel. Train., p. 80. ..."
2. Hesiod, the Poems and Fragments, Done Into English Prose by Hesiod (1908)
"Thereupon, it produced a bountiful crop of wild grasses, thistles, " skellochs,"
sorrel, rushes, ..."
3. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1880)
"... a quean at market and fair, Wi' sweeties and snaps, and snoods for her hair ;
There's a birkie wha skellochs and thuds ..."
4. Scottish Notes and Queries by John Malcolm Bulloch (1899)
"Thereupon, it produced a bountiful crop of wild grasses, thistles, "skellochs,"
sorrel, rushes, ..."
5. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch (1899)
"Thereupon, it produced a bountiful crop of wild grasses, thistles, "skellochs,"
sorrel, rushes, ..."
6. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"... skellochs, &c. and is full of quick* ens and couch grass." Maxwell's Sel.
Trans, p. 80. ..."
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