Lexicographical Neighbors of Skummer
Literary usage of Skummer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1840)
"Tink! goes the hammer, The skillet and the skummer! Come bring me the copper kettle!
For the Tinker, the merry Tinker, He is the man of mettle. ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"skummer, (1) ». Foulness made with a dirty liquid. Somerset. (2) ». To make foul.
Som. SKUT, ». To crouch down. Kent. SKUTE, s. A small boat; a wherry. ..."
3. History of the Battle of Agincourt by Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1827)
"One great bowl, three candlesticks, with three pikes, a great silver spoon, a
skummer, and other plate; weighing together 19 Ib.—Value the Ib. 30». ..."
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