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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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(Skelf,) Skelv(e, n.2 [? Du. schelf a scale, flake or splinter of wood. Also in the later Sc. and north. Irish dialects.] A splinter, a sharp fragment of wood, stone or metal. — c1610 Melville Mem. 24.
Few or nane of souldiours that cam fourth of Dynan bot they wer hurt other with skelves of stanes be the force of our battery, or wer brunt with the fyre brandis c1610 Melville Mem. 84.
The King Hendre 2 being hurt in the head with the skelv of a spair … at the triumphall justin of his dochters mariage
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