scraw

British  

/ skrɑː /

noun

1. a sod from the surface of a peat bog or from a field

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Etymology

Origin of scraw

from Irish Gaelic scraith

Example Sentences

All along the outside of the wall they had embedded thousands of sharp stones in the scraw, each stone pointing outward in a chevaux de frise which was like a petrified hedgehog.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

If Sunday fall that day Nor straw, nor scraw, nor twig, Till Monday will he lay.

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)