skerth dial.
[? a. ON. skarð: see scarth n.1]
A small watercourse.
| 1851 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. ii. 291 [Lincolnshire], The river..is augmented by numerous highland streams, ‘delphs and skerths’, on each side. Ibid. 302 A network of drains, dykes, eaus, and skerths. |