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scatholds

scatholds is the plural of scathold.

Meaning of scathold

Noun

scathold (plural scatholds)

  1. (Orkney, Shetland) 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.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 262

Questions about scatholds

What is scatholds the plural of?
Scatholds is the plural of scathold.

Words near scatholds in the dictionary

  1. scathingness
  2. scathless
  3. scathlessly
  4. scathlessness
  5. scathold
  6. scatholds
  7. scathophagid
  8. scathophagids
  9. scaths
  10. scathy
  11. Scaticook

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