‖ ˈscallag
[Gael. sgalag = Ir. sgológ. Cf. scoloc.]
A predial bondsman in the Hebrides.
| 1666 J. Fraser Polichron. (S.H.S.) 84 The very place named Bearn ni Scallag, that is, the Servants Gap, becaus the men who did the slaughter were servants and scallags. 1793 J. L. Buchanan Trav. W. Hebrides Introd. 6 The scallag, whether male or female, is a poor being, who, for mere subsistence, becomes a predial slave to another. 1807 J. Hall Trav. Scot. II. 549 The state of our negroes is paradise compared with that of the scallag. |