| 单词 | scrae |
| 释义 | ▪ I. scrae, n.1 Sc.|skre|
Also scray, skrae.
[? Subst. use of scrae a.]
1. A diminutive or skinny person.
1803Jamieson in Scott Minstrelsy III. 363 [To a crying child], Lie still, ye skrae. 1823Lockhart Reg. Dalton vii. ii. III. 119 Yon poor shaughlin' in-kneed bit scray of a thing! 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 136 Lean skraes o' men.
2. ‘A shrivelled old shoe’ (Jam.).
1721Kelly Sc. Prov. 251 Mickle Sorrow comes to the Screa, e'er the Heat come to the Tea [= toe]. Spoken when one holds his Shoe to the Fire to warm his Foot.
▪ II. scrae, n.2 Orkney and Shetland.|skreɪ|
[a. ON. skreið dried fish.]
Dried fish. Also scrae-fish.
1806P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 78 The gables of the cottages here, were..hung round with hundreds of small coalfish,..strung upon spits, and exposed to dry, without salt. The fishes dried in this manner are called scrae-fish.
▪ III. scrae, a. Sc.|skre|
Also skrae.
[? a. LG. schrae, schra, schrade, etc. (see Grimm s.v. schrade) lean, dried up, shrivelled.]
Thin, lean. Also Comb. scrae-shanked a.
1822Hogg Three Perils of Man II. vii. 232 The skrae-shankit Laidlaws. 1898E. W. Hamilton Mawkin of the Flow xviii. 241 This skrae-shankit laddie.
▪ IV. scrae
var. scree Sc. and north., debris of rock. |
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