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▪ I. screef, n.|skriːf|
Also scrief, 9 skreef.
[dial. var. of scurf n.1, scruff n.1]
1. Sc. and Forestry. A layer of vegetation on the surface of the ground.
1817J. Christie Instructions for Hunting 39 Without a bit of screef aboon, But bare and naked craigs o' stane. 1866W. Gregor Dialect of Banffshire 163 There's a fine skreef o' girs on that shift. 1925R. L. Cassie Gangrel Muse 33 An' swack little feeties trip licht o' the screef, I' the reelin' an' furlin' o' fairies. 1934Forestry VIII. 21 Where there is a skin of peat..it is preferable to plant in a ploughed furrow, or in a screef with loosened soil. 1952Buchan Observer 7 Oct., You may weel spier fa's to cast yer divots, gin sae be that ye ken o' a bittie o' gweed screef.
2. Special Comb.: screef-mark, an area from which surface vegetation has been cleared.
1950R. Jenkins So Gaily sings Lark xxii. 203 With the spade the vegetation was scraped away, and in the black ‘scrief-mark’ as it was called an L notch was made, into which the tree was carefully inserted, the earth being firmed again by careful pressure of the heel.
▪ II. screef, v. Sc. and Forestry.|skriːf|
Also scrief.
[f. prec. Cf. scurf v., scruff v.1]
trans. To clear (surface vegetation) from the ground.
1926Trans. Buchan Field Club XIII. 82 Small places had the turf skinned off or ‘scriefed’. 1930Forestry IV. 20 Screef the surface lightly with the flat end [of a mattock], and then loosen up the patch with the pick end. 1948Country Life 8 Oct. 739/3 To screef is to clear the ground of surface vegetation (such as heather) with a mattock or comparable tool.
So ˈscreefing vbl. n.
1930Forestry IV. 85 Short of removing the surface layers of the fire traces by ‘screefing’ or turning it in with the plough..it is usual to get rid of the surface vegetation by controlled burning. 1953H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. ix. 151 It is seldom necessary to remove weed growth completely, though screefing, or the paring away of surface vegetation with a mattock, may be practised where trees are very slow to get away..or where manure is applied. 1962Finnish Paper & Timber XIII. 162 When the weight and efficiency of the tractor was increased and the screefing equipment made more manoeuvrable over rough going suitable machinery for the work had been found. |