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scriddans

scriddans is the plural of scriddan.

Meaning of scriddan

Noun

scriddan (plural scriddans)

  1. (Scotland, rare) A kind of landslide in which rain loosens the side of a mountain or hill and rocks slide down.
    • AUCHUIRN, in the Shire of Ross: and in the Parish of Kintail. This is now a Farm in Glenelchaig, but was once a populous Town, which, in 1745, was rendered uninhabitable by an awful Scriddan or Mountain Torrent, and has since been converted into a grazing District.1813, Nicholas Carlisle, A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland and of the Islands in the British Seas ...: Being a Continuation of the Topography of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Questions about scriddans

What is scriddans the plural of?
Scriddans is the plural of scriddan.

Words near scriddans in the dictionary

  1. Scribner
  2. Scribner Creek
  3. Scribonian
  4. scrid
  5. scriddan
  6. scriddans
  7. scrids
  8. scried
  9. scries
  10. scrieve
  11. scrieve board

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