skailing, vbl. n.
(ˈskeɪlɪŋ)
[f. skail v.]
1. The action of the verb in various senses; dismissal, dispersion.
| ? c 1450 in Ratis Raving 16 Tyme of scalynge, tyme of gaderinge. 1497 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 354 To Johnstoune,..that brocht tithingis of the skaling of the Inglismen, iij s. 1523 St. Papers Hen. VIII, VI. 206 He [Burbon] myght..percace have ben redy, leng before the tyme of ther skaling. 1569–70 Extr. Burgh Rec. Edin. (1875) 269 To enter euerye day at the skaling of the nycht wasche. 1651 in Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) Introd. 53 Mr...Boyd to be spoken to about the soon scaling of the Barony Kirk on Sunday afternoon. a 1670 Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1850) I. 190 The Erll Marschall haveing sure intelligens of the skailling of the barronis army. 1805 J. Nicol Poems II. 158 (Jam.), It sall soon get a scailin! 1881 Blackw. Mag. Apr. 527/1 They were discussed and pulled to pieces at the ‘scaling of the kirk’, as the parishioners trudged homewards. |
2. Mining. An opening through which the ventilating current passes.
| 1850 Ansted Geol., etc. iv. xix. 490 The current of air once obtained, is conducted through the passages of the mine by various contrivances, consisting of..partitions, and partial orifices or scalings. |