Lexicographical Neighbors of Sklates
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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