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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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INSCALES, n.pl. Gratings or racks placed at the lower end of a wicker salmon trap in a river (Sc. 1808 Jam.).Sc. 1743 Falconer Decisions 161:
During the Saturday's Slop, the Defender ought to lay by the Inscales in all and every one of the Cruives.
Inv. 1766 Session Papers, Ness Heritors v. Fraser (18 Feb.) 4:
The space between them was nearly inclosed, by two pailings of wood, like the inscales of a cruive.
Sc. 1805 Session Papers, Gillies v. Scott (26 Feb.) 5:
During that space the inscales, (i.e. the hecks or racks at the lower end of the cruive box) in all and every one of the cruives, ought to be taken out.

[Appar. In, + scale, a series of steps, sc. of a salmon ladder. O.Sc. inskell, id., 1660.]

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