10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCLATE»
Discover the use of
sclate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sclate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sheading of Michael (Kirch Michael, Ballaugh and Jurby)
Q 'the Goshen crof t' Mx. See Goshen below. CROIT NY GURRIN [l<reitna'goran]
WK1990. See Croit ny Conning. CROIT NY SCLATE (Int. 91) Crot na Sclate
LCB1704, LA1709, Crott ne sclate LA1716, Crott ne Sclate LA1728, Crott ne
Slate ...
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
Add; The word has had this form in O.E. " Sclate or flat stone. Latericia, Ymbrex."
Prompt. Parv. The synon. phrase employed by Fraunces, seems to confirm the
etymon given in Dict. To Sclaite, v. a. To cover with slate, S. The same
orthography, ...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
Add; The word has had this form in O.E. " Sclate or flat stone. Latericia, Ymbrex."
Prompt. Parv. The synon. phrase employed by Fraunces, seems to con firm the
etymon given in Dict. To Sclaite, v. a. To cover with slate, S. The same
orthography ...
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The Roxburghshire Word-Book
[Cf. CLATCH v.] SKLATE, sb. Also sclate. G. c. {1. A slate} 2. Slate collectively: “
Lime and sclate” (Riddell 36). [med. Sc. sclata2—Old F. esclate] SKLATE, v. Also
sclate. G. 0. tr. To cover with slates. [Earlier E. sclate, Sc. (1637) sklaat] SKLATER
, ...
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Scarted other folks siller into their wallets like sclate stanes, Cnocaa'rr Guy Hon (
1896) 166. (b) N'hh.1 The NH). slates made of schistose sandstone which readily
splits into large flags. They were regularly used on old roofs, pinned to the ...
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Place Names in Much of North-East Scotland
... also The Old Stonehaven Clock Tower, near the harbour The Old Stonehaven
Clock Tower (Stu), see The Old Steeple The Old Toun, see The Auld Toun The
Sclate Cows (OS, Wat, F 'sklet'kAuz), N of 880852, Scots Sclate is slate, Cow a
set ...
Accordingly, the old sclate was in constant requisition, and, in the course of about
eighteen months or two years, it yielded the following original productions :—
Pilgrims of the Sun, Mador of the Moor, Queen Hynde, Five or six dramatic pieces
, ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1839
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Records of the Borough of Leicester
Item paid for 2 mil. sclate pynnez 6d. Item paid to 2 dawbers for 4 dayez & a halffe
3j. Item vnto Home for a halfe day id. Item paid to his man for 3 dayez & a halfe 1s
. 9d. Item for a server vnto hym...(& others). Item paid for berying yn of 1 lode ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
As for the stars—never cou'd my heart decide whether they were fairest risin',
settin', or studded, stationary sparkles, in the sky, like diamonds on the sclate-roof
0' a human dwellin'. some. Second Series. Number One. snaeusnn. I'm glad to ...
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A dictionary of the Scottish language [by E. Picken].
Ebenezer Picken. Scaw, s the seal. Scaw, v. n. aud a. to scab. Scaw'd, imperf.
and pus. part, scabbed. Scawp, s. a bare piece of dry stony ground. Scawp, s. the
scalp. gclatch, s a bespattering with mire, Sec. Sclate, s. a slate. Sclale, a:!j. slate.
