scragh

plural scraghs

1. alternativeAlternative form of scraw

   […] a long shaft of stormy sunset light that showed up every deep ravine, every emerald patch of "scragh," every gray crag on its brown sides.

   1912, “The Sin of Conn Moor”, in The Living Age, volume 273, page 625

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   This roof displayed, stuck between its "scraghs and thievanes," an ample stock of coverless Vosters, copy books, slates, and gray goose quills, with two or three pendent racks, made of the branchy ...

   1829, Thomas Crofton Croker, Legends of the Lakes; or, Sayings and doings at Killarney, page 144

   God rest his sowl! as I said when I saw the scragh put over him for the first time. Well, ye know, yir honor, that oncet upon the same road width them I coudn't do more nor less than wet our clay together; so, after walkin' the corpse three times round the church-yard of Glassin-oge— Were ye ever berried there, sir?—I mane, wud ye like to be berried there, sir?

   1837, J. Augustine Wade, Darby the Swift, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume 2, page 70

   […] the large peats generally employed for roofing bothies and pig-sties. These large peats are called "scraghs," the Gaelic name which is also applied to the large flat bonnet worn by the natives.

   1867, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a Week, volumes 4-17, page 480

   He sat now, goose-quill in hand, ink-horn by his side, looking out west over the dark brown sweep of the bog. He loved every inch of it—every rush-fringed pool that mirrored the sky; every dark green gorse bush, tipped with gold, ashimmer with the fairy lace of wet cobwebs; the scraghs vivid as emerald velvet, the little streams that held pools of sunlight in their amber depths and laughed to themselves as they ran.

   1912, Miriam Alexander, Beyond the Law, page 166

   "You are very muddy—shockingly muddy," said the Smithereen, with the air and tone of a man who has made a discovery. "You'll really have to go home." He came like Agag to the edge of the scragh as he spoke, and held out his crop, by the aid of which Noreen was presently got ashore. […] Noreen […] surveyed the shower-bath of bog-mud which rained from every part of her person.

   1915, The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 41, page 121