turskilln.
Scottish dialect.
A kind of spade for cutting peat.
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1812 J. Henderson Gen. View Agric. Caithness xv. 234 When the peat-moss is not more than from one to two feet deep, the peat is cut perpendicularly, by a spade, called a turskill.
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