Crossword clues for scaur
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scar \Scar\, n. [Scot. scar, scaur, Icel. sker a skerry, an isolated rock in the sea; akin to Dan. ski[ae]r, Sw. sk["a]r. Cf. Skerry.] An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
O sweet and far, from cliff and scar,
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly Scotland English) A steep cliff or bank.
Usage examples of "scaur".
June day, and meseems I know thy lack, and the slaking of it lieth somewhat nearer than Hampton under Scaur, which we shall not reach these two days if we go afoot all the way.
Director Scaur with an urgent message he says should be heard by all of you.
Should it bear out, Director Scaur and I will be seeking authorization to relocate the defectors here, to Coruscant.
Director Dif Scaur stamped into the room, a sheaf of durasheet documents and optical prints under one arm and a gunmetal-gray modified protocol droid trailing in his wake.
If thou follow my rede, thou wilt take the way that goeth hence east away, and then shalt thou come to Hampton under Scaur, where the folk are peaceable and friendly.
I shall tell thee, that though men may slay and steal there time and time about, yet in regard to Hampton under Scaur, it is Heaven, wherein men sin not.
Dry Tree, who dwell in the Castle of the Scaur, who shall be thy masters if thou goest thither.
Oliver: yet on the other hand he had a hankering after Hampton under Scaur, where, to say sooth, he doubted not to see the lady again.
Hampton under Scaur, and the Fellowship of Champions who dwell on the rock.
I, and might, if she durst, hang me over the battlements of the Scaur, for she is a fierce and hard woman, and now no longer young in years.
Lady and Queen of the Champions of Hampton under the Scaur, not far from mine own land.
So the end of it was that the Champions sent messengers to Hampton and the Castle of the Scaur to tell what had betid, and they themselves took the road to the land of the Wheat-wearers, having those women with them not as captives but as free damsels.
Wheat-wearers in the Burg, and me in the Scaur, no strong-thief shall dare lift up his hand in these parts.
Till his deathday he held the Castle of the Scaur, and cleansed the Wood Perilous of all strong-thieves and reivers, so that no high-street of a good town was safer than its glades and its byways.
He gave a great plunge, and then I felt his muscles swelling and knotting under me, as he rose on his hind legs, and went backwards, with the scaur behind him.