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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See skaw.

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  • Organized by: Students Coalition Against War, www. scaw.ca

    Strike Updates for March 15, 16, 19th 2009 2009

  • He afterwards commenced the business of a scaw-banker, which means that he went about the country enticing mechanics and rustics to ship to America, on promise of having their fortunes made in that country; and then by artful practices, produced their indentures as servants, in consequence of which on their arrival in

    American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

  • “Yes, mem, I've had the sma'pox, the nirls [63], the blabs [64], the scaw [65], the kinkhost [66], and the fever, the branks [67] and the worm [68].”

    Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

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