Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shrill cry; a squall.
- To cry with a shrill voice.
- noun The wild radish (see
radish ); also, the charlock, Jamieson.
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Examples
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"So then" there was a bit more-raised voices, like-and then the crack of a belt on a bum, and the sort of skelloch ye could hear across six fields.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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But she turned white when she saw him, sir, and let out a wee skelloch.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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"Twas a month past, I heard the lass let out a rare skelloch, and such a kebbie-lebbie o" bangin" and crashin-, as ye'd think the whole stable was comin" doon aboot my head.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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Something flees at him wi a vengeance, maist dang him back owerbang gaed the knights pistol, and Hutcheon, that held the ladder, and my gudesire that stood beside him, hears a loud skelloch.
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Something flees at him wi a vengeance, maist dang him back owerbang! gaed the knights pistol, and Hutcheon, that held the ladder, and my gudesire, that stood beside him, hears a loud skelloch.
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A 'the time we lay there it lowped and flang and capered and span like a teetotum, and whiles we could hear it skelloch as it span.
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Syne, upon a suddenty, and wi 'the ae dreidfu' skelloch, Tod sprang up frae his hinderlands and fell forrit on the wab, a bluidy corp.
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Something flees at him wi 'a vengeance, maist dang him back ower -- bang! gaed the knight's pistol, and Hutcheon, that held the ladder, and my gudesire, that stood beside him, hears a loud skelloch.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878
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A 'the time we lay there it lowped and flang and capered and span like a teetotum, and whiles we could hear it skelloch as it span.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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A 'the time we lay there it lowped and flang and capered and span like a teetotum, and whiles we could hear it skelloch as it span.
chained_bear commented on the word skelloch
"'Er... I hope all is well, sir?' he asked, blinking short-sightedly. 'My lass woke me, sayin' as she thought there was a skelloch, like, and then we heard a bit of a bang, like—' His eyes, hastily averted from me, went to the scar of raw wood in the whitewashed wall, left by Jamie's poker."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 276
January 20, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word skelloch
Another usage on contracture.
January 26, 2010