scrayn.1
/skreɪ/ The common tern, Sterna hirundo.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) > sterna hirundo (common tern)
scray1668
spur1676
kirmew1694
pictarne1710
pirr maw1744
tarrock1774
pictarnie1784
medrick1832
shear-tail1885
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §4. 155 Sea-swallow, Scray.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 353 In other places of England they are called Scrays.
1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Tern—Common Rittock or Rippock, Spurre, Scraye.
1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds V. 638.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
scrayn.2
dialect.
A bush.
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c1650 Robin Hood & Butcher 14 in Percy Folio MS. I. 20 Robin he marcht in the greene forrest, vnder the greenwood scray.
1869 E. Peacock in Once a Week 27 Mar. 230 The thorn scray grows at the horn of the river.
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scrayn.3
dialect.
= scraw n.3
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > other processes > equipment for
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scrawc1563
scray1791
plaiting machine1813
canroy1836
needle-board1879
serigraph1881
ager1884
thread-counter1909
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. ii. ii. ii. 161 A kind of broad ladder..called a scraw or scray, on which the fleece is drained.
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