scraw

/ skrɑː /

noun

1. a sod from the surface of a peat bog or from a field

Word History and Origins

Origin of scraw¹

from Irish Gaelic scraith

Example Sentences

All along the outside of the wall they had embedded thousands of sharp stones in the scraw, each stone pointing outward in a chevaux de frise which was like a petrified hedgehog.

From Literature

If Sunday fall that day Nor straw, nor scraw, nor twig, Till Monday will he lay.

From Project Gutenberg

The cootie muircocks crousely craw, The maukins tak' their fud fu' braw, I gie their wames a random paw, For a' they're skilpy; For wha' sae glaikit, gleg an' din, To but the ben, or loup the linn, Or scraw aboon the tirlin'-pin Sae frae an' gilpie?

From Project Gutenberg

Did n't I bind myself apprentice to a carpenter for love of Molly Scraw, a niece he had, just to be near her and be looking at her; and that 's the way I shaved off the top of my thumb with the plane.

From Project Gutenberg

"I wish I could live with you, only I don't want to be an ugly scraw, I want to be like Kirsty when I grow big, an' live up here in the Oa, an' pile hay; but I'll have to be like Auntie Eleanor an' wear a black silk dress, oh, dear!"

From Project Gutenberg