scraw

noun

Irish a sod from the surface of a peat bog or from a field

Word Origin

from Irish Gaelic scraith

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Historical Examples

Poor old Cinder riding the nightmare, and dreaming about the Scraw!
Cormorant Crag
George Manville Fenn
I thought it led down into the Scraw cove, but we must be lower than that.
Cormorant Crag
George Manville Fenn
But to reach the mighty cliffs overhanging the Scraw was not an easy task.
Cormorant Crag
George Manville Fenn
Scraw; a grassy sod cut from a grassy or boggy surface and often dried for firing; also called scrahoge (with diminutive g).
English As We Speak It in Ireland
P. W. Joyce

scraw

Word Origin

Examples from the Web for scraw

Historical Examples

Poor old Cinder riding the nightmare, and dreaming about the Scraw!

I thought it led down into the Scraw cove, but we must be lower than that.

But to reach the mighty cliffs overhanging the Scraw was not an easy task.

Scraw; a grassy sod cut from a grassy or boggy surface and often dried for firing; also called scrahoge (with diminutive g).