scathold

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noun

An area of open ground for pasture or for furnishing fuel; a scatland.

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Meanings

nounscathold (plural scatholds)

plural scatholds

  1. OrkneyShetlandAn area of open ground for pasture or for furnishing fuel; a scatland.

    When they want beef or mutton on any festal occasion, they betake themselves to the Shetlanders' scatholds or townmails, and with elf-arrows bring down their game.

    1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 262

Origin

From scat + hold.

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scathold. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scathold

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“scathold.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scathold. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scathold,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scathold.

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