skellach Sc.
(ˈskɛləx)
Also 7 skelloche.
[Alteration of skellat.]
A small bell. Also attrib.
1653 in R. S. Fittis Eccl. Annals Perth (1885) 43 On the Skelloche littill Bell, anno dom. 1400. 1851 D. Wilson Preh. Ann. II. iv. ix. (1863) 474 The recovery of another iron skellach..which lay buried..alongside a group of stone cists. |