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Definition of Skirlings
1. skirling [n] - See also: skirling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skirlings
Literary usage of Skirlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation by Robert Sempill, Thomas Churchyard (1893)
"47. Sipio, Publius Cornelius Scipio Afri- canus, xliii. 97. skirlings (house),
Skirling Castle, two miles north-east of Biggar, ix. 285. ..."
2. History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland: From the Beginning by Robert Keith, Charles Jobson Lyon (1845)
"... Thomas Master of Boyd, Laird of Bombie, skirlings, Kt., Laird of Boyn,3 Boghall,
i [A misprint for Carlyle. He was Michael fourth Lord Carlyle of ..."
3. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotlandby Scotland Privy Council by Scotland Privy Council (1902)
"... 368 ; granting to Ludovick Leslie, lieutenant-colonel in Sir John Hamilton of
skirlings regiment, permission to levy and transport troops, [no date], ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1862)
"... Monmouth and Ross, is that of killing in spring the young fry, called here "
pinks," on their way to the sea, and at other seasons the " skirlings" or ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1862)
"... Monmouth and Eoss, is that of killing in spring the young fry, called here "
pinks," on their way to the sea, and at other seasons the " skirlings" or ..."
6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1862)
"... two hundred fishers go out daily, who may take, on a low calculation, from
one dozen to twenty fish a-piece. There is no doubt that these skirlings or ..."
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