scaur

/ skɔːr /

noun

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Just on its face was a scaur, and there a raven—a speck—was wheeling slowly.

I had tales of Claverhouse as we came through the bogs, and tales of the devil, as we came over the top of the scaur.

The scaur also presents an interesting feature in its round ironstone nodules, half embedded in the smooth rocky floor.

A dog barked as she crossed the flag-stones at Scaur-a-van, then suddenly began a strange furtive baying.

Wordsworth's situation is really a beautiful one; and Nab Scaur behind his house rises with a grand, protecting air.

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