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▪ I. scray1|skreɪ| In 9 scraye. [History obscure: cf. the synonymous Welsh ysgrȧen, ysgrȧell.] The common tern, Sterna hirundo.
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. v. §4. 155 Sea-swallow, Scray. 1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 353 In other places of England they are called Scrays. 1813Montagu Ornith. Dict. Suppl., Tern—Common... Rittock or Rippock, Spurre, Scraye. 1852Macgillivray Brit. Birds V. 638. ▪ II. scray2 dial. [? Altered form of spray.] A bush.
c1650Robin Hood & Butcher 14 in Percy Folio MS. I. 20 Robin he marcht in the greene forrest, vnder the greenwood scray. 1869E. Peacock in Once a Week 27 Mar. 230 The thorn scray grows at the horn of the river. ▪ III. scray3 dial. = scraw n.3
1791[see scraw n.3]. |