saft
Britishadjective
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No; I'll see the bonny holms o' Netherby nae mair, nor the saft moonlight fa'in on the Cheviot Fells.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
He let Mr. Ablethorpe take his fork, it is true, and ordered down his wife from the stack with the grumble that she had left "the hale affair as saft as saps!"
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"He's but a saft ane; but I fear he'll no hae onything on him this time."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
All right for Massachusetts pine and saft maple.
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
An' when we did get it cut, the stacks, for the first whilie, were aye heatin wi' us; an' when Marti'mas came, the grain was still saft an' milky, an' no fit for the market.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
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