† skealtn.
Obsolete. rare.
Story, talk, rumour.
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speechc1175
rumourc1384
voicea1393
reportc1425
vox populic1547
talk1560
skealtc1575
vox pop1735
reverie1787
underbreath1880
scuttlebutt1901
c1575 J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew in Archaeologia (1840) 28 130 This was not onely her talke; but it was also the comon skealte and speache throught the whole lande.
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n.c1575- to throw shade
- to throw sidelight on
- to throw someone a curveball
- to throw someone a fall
- to throw someone off guard
- to throw someone on the slagheap
- to throw someone out on etc ass
- to throw someone out on her ass
- to throw someone out on his ass
- to throw something back in a person's face
- to throw something in one's dish
- to throw something on the slagheap
- to throw the baby out with the bath
- to throw the baby out with the bathwater
- to throw the bones
- to throw the book at a person
- to throw the bridle in a person's neck
- to throw the bridle on a person's neck
- to throw the gauntlet
- to throw the handkerchief
- to throw the handkerchief at
- to throw the handkerchief to
- to throw the handle after the hatchet
- to throw the hatchet
- to throw the hatchet after the helve