scrog
Americannoun
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any naturally short or stunted tree or bush, as a crab apple tree or blackthorn bush.
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scrogs, underbrush; brushwood.
Other Word Forms
- scroggy adjective
Etymology
Origin of scrog
1350–1400; Middle English skrogg; probably akin to scrag
Example Sentences
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Scrog′gie, Scrog′gy, covered with underwood.
From Project Gutenberg
It was Alan’s tryst to lie every night between twelve and two “in a bit scrog of wood by east of Silvermills, and by south the south mill-lade.”
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Scad, gleam, reflection. schore, a man of high rank. scog, v. hide. scomfisht, discomfited. scowther, scorch. scrog, a stunted shrub. shavling-gabbit, shavling mouthed, a shavling being a carpenter's tool of the plane order.
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Out over cairn and moss, Out over scrog and scaur, He ran as runs the clansman That bears the cross of war.
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It called on all to gather From every scrog and scaur, That loved their fathers’ tartan And the ancient game of war.
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