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scathold

noun

Etymology

From scat + hold.

  1. derived from *kel-✻
  2. derived from *haldaną✻
  3. derived from *haldan✻
  4. derived from healdan
  5. derived from holden
  6. compounded as scathold — “scat + hold”

Definitions

  1. An area of open ground for pasture or for furnishing fuel

    An 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scathold. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA