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scaur

(skɔːr)

a Scot variant of scar¹

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Now scaur and ravine changed and rolled back to jagged mountains on the horizon's edge, and now broke into hills lower and lower, till at last came the true plains.

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Our cottage was just a couple of minutes' walk to the sandy, family-friendly beach, where a wealth of sealife can be found in the ledges of rock, known as scaurs, which reach out to sea.

Bay watch, but not as we know it; ADRIAN CAFFERY

I had the merit of making a grand tour in quest of old Ballads in the course of which besides the risque of swamping in bogs & breaking my neck over scaurs I encountered the formidable hardships of sleeping upon peat-stacks & eating mutton slain by no common butcher but deprived of life by the Judgement of God as a Coroners inquest would express themselves.

'A vast o' bits o' stories': Shortreed, Laidlaw and Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

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