skail-
the verbal stem in combination, as skail-door, -water (see quots.); † skail-wind, a scattering wind.
| 1709 M. Bruce Serm. 13 (Jam.), You shall all be scattered... You are sure enough now, but beware of the next blast that is to blow, it will make a skealwind among you. 1825 Jamieson Suppl., Skail-Water, the water that is let off by a sluice before it reaches the mill. 1883 Gresley Gloss. Coal-m., Scale Door,..a door in the mine, the opening or closing of which regulates the supply of ventilation to a district. |