skelf

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It wasna an ill w'y to beery fowk, nor an ill place to gang til, for they aye biggit up the skelf, ye ken.

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  • It wasna an ill w'y to beery fowk, nor an ill place to gang til, for they aye biggit up the skelf, ye ken. —  Heather and Snow
  • I hae a cheese upon my skelf -- —  The Book of Humorous Verse
  • Hewson, an honest cottar, wi 'Shakspeare an' the Arabian Nichts upo 'a skelf i' the hoose wi '' im. —  Robert Falconer
  • They're her beuks maistly upo 'the skelf there abune yer ain, Mr. Sutherlan'. —  David Elginbrod
  • It was howkit oot -- whether oot o 'hard yird or saft stane, I dinna ken; I reckon it wud be some no sae hard kin' o 'a rock -- and whan the deid was laid intil 't, they biggit up the mou o' the place, that is, frae that same skelf to the ane 'at was abune 't, and sae a' was weel closed in. ' —  Heather and Snow
 

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