scrog

American  

[skrog] / skrɒg /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. any naturally short or stunted tree or bush, as a crab apple tree or blackthorn bush.

2. scrogs, underbrush; brushwood.

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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

John was one day lying under a bush in the scrog, when he was aware of a collie on the far hillside skulking down through the deepest of the heather with obtrusive stealth.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson

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."

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

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From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele

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.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt