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Definition of Scaur
1. n. A precipitous bank or rock; a scar.
Definition of Scaur
1. Noun. (chiefly Scotland) A steep cliff or bank. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scaur
1. a protruding, isolated rock [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scaur
Literary usage of Scaur
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stickit Minister: And Some Common Men by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1894)
"He had dwelt five years by the side of the scaur Water. ... The manse of the
scaur sat on a high bank overlooking the long, narrow, densely wooded valley. ..."
2. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"... with a land of mountain, lake, and scaur, And larger yet with wonder, love,
belief Of quaint ..."
3. The Geology of Central and Western Fife and Kinross: Being a Description of by Archibald Geikie, Benjamin Nieve Peach (1900)
"In the lower part of the scaur Hill Burn, green, blue, and red clays or shales,
... It here brings the Hurlet Limestone of the scaur Hill Quarry on a level ..."
4. Good Words edited by Norman Macleod, Donald Macleod (1886)
"picturesque, " With level waste, and rounding grey." No huge boulders break the
line, as on the scaur at ..."
5. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1901)
"... THE scaur, WHITBY The other is chiefly remarkable because of the curious
coincidences 1 described in it—coincidences so strangely uncommon as to be very ..."
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