skout

English

Etymology 1

Noun

skout (plural skouts)

1. (archaic) Alternative spelling of scout (“guillemot”).

Etymology 2

Noun

skout (plural skouts)

1. (Scotland, possibly obsolete) Alternative spelling of shout (“boat”).
   • 1637, Monro, Exped. i 45:

     We were all shipped in open skouts or boats

   • 1694, Kingarth Par. Rec., section 175:

     [His] breach of the Sabbath in carying turf … in a skout to Rothesay

References

• “skout”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• stouk