scaur
English
editEtymology
editDialectal form of scar.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editscaur (plural scaurs)
- (chiefly Scotland) A steep cliff or bank.
- 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.XIII:
- The crag is high, the scaur is deep, / Yet shrink not from the desperate leap […] .
- 1859, Walter Cooper Dendy, The wild Hebrides, page 67:
- There are "stags of ten" roaming abroad unstalked; and perchance that is a hart royal swelling his broad front on yonder scaur.