Lexicographical Neighbors of Sklate
Literary usage of Sklate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1900)
"He had what we Ayrshire people familiarly describe as a " sklate off" his head
... On Willox Hill Moor the adjoining farms of Braehead, sklate-hole, &c., ..."
2. The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop (1868)
"Kiss and be kind, the fiddler is blind. Kiss a sklate ... A hit or miss I'll get,
but help o' you, Kiss ye sklate-stanes, they winna weet your mou'; ..."
3. A History of Newport Pagnell by Frederick William Bull (1900)
"... and covd with sklate and tyle. ... and the oon side covd with sklate and tyle,
and the other side wh strawe, ..."
4. History and Antiquities of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds by Oliver Ratcliff (1900)
"... and on the oon side cov'd with sklate and tyle, and the other side wh strawe,
... and cov'd with sklate and tyle. Itm a dove howse, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... that is no gratification, but we'll mend the sklate py and py." " Oh," replied
Mr M'Allister, " you will find yourself as comfortable in it as in your ..."
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