scrath Sc.
(skraθ)
[Metathesis of scarth, scart n.1]
= scart n.1, scarf n.4
| 16.. in Macfarlane's Geogr. Collect. (S.H.S.) II. 133 The Scrath, the Badoch are two great black fowls. 1880 ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton) Crookit Meg xxi. 228 A large scrath with a look of insatiate gluttony stamped on its ugly face. 1893 Blackw. Mag. Aug. 228 Some æons ago, the scrath and the phoca had the [Orcadian] islands pretty much to themselves. |