Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarts
Literary usage of Scarts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory by William Macgillivray (1852)
"There is a large cave on the west coast of Harris celebrated for the number of
scarts which reside in it, and so lofty that a boat can enter to a ..."
2. The Cloud World, Its Features and Significance: Being a Popular Account of by Samuel Barber (1903)
"These patches form the " hen-scarts" of the proverb— " Hen-scarts and filly tails
Make a loft}' ship to carry low sails," and it is these patches that give ..."
3. Rob Roy by Walter Scott, David Henry Montgomery (1894)
"... are like the scarts and ... Gie your kail through the reek: give yon the worst
of it. scarts and ..."
4. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"They that bourd wi' cats may count upon scarts.—ALLAN RAMSAY. "To scart the
buttons," or draw ... Like scarts upon the wing by the hope of plunder led. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"They that bourd wi' cats may count upon scarts.— ALLAN RAMSAY. " To scart the
buttons," or draw ... Like scarts upon the wing by the hope of plunder led. ..."
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