Definition of Sklates

1. sklate [v] - See also: sklate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sklates

skivers
skives
skivie
skivier
skiviest
skiving
skivings
skivvied
skivvies
skivvy
skivvying
skivy
skiwear
sklate
sklated
sklates (current term)
sklating
sklayre
sklayres
sklent
sklented
sklenting
sklents
skliff
skliffs
sklim
sklimmed
sklimming
sklims
sklodowskite

Literary usage of Sklates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Nottingham (England) (1885)
"sklates = strips of wood. See Glossary. 3 The words ' aftw J>e grete frost' have * That is, for attending the Court Leet been cancelled, (doing suit of ..."

2. Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham: Being Grassmen's Accounts and Other Parish by James Barmby (1896)
"Item to the said Cuthbert for two fother off sklates at xd. a fother—xxd. Item for cariage of the sam to William Ayre and William Selbie, ..."

3. Whistle-binkie: A Collection of Songs for the Social Circle by John Donald Carrick, Alexander Rodger, David Robertson (1890)
"... Before ye ken what's true : Believe me, I was nae sic gates, But dining wi' the magistrates, An' some o' them gaed ower the sklates, ..."

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