| 释义 |
▪ I. scaur Chiefly Sc.|skɔː(r)|
[dial. var. of scar n.1]
A precipitous bank; a cliff; the ridge of a hill.
1805Scott Last Minstr. i. xii, Is it the roar of Teviot's tide, That chafes against the scaur's red side? 1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. iv. (1857) 45 Its place on the rock has ever since remained as undistinguishable as the scaurs and cliffs around it. 1859Tennyson Elaine 54 Down the shingly scaur he plunged. 1871M. Collins Marq. & Merch. II. i. 6 Hesper shone Like a beacon over the mountain scaurs. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. 243 Dwarf pines..grew thinly among loose stone and gravel scaurs. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. ix. 193 Scaur and ravine changed and rolled back to jagged mountains.
▪ II. scaur
var. scar a.; obs. Sc. f. scare v. |