scaur

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scaur

(skɔːr)
n
a Scot variant of scar1
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1) Haply on swiftest steed, Or in the flying car, Now they approach the glen, West of white Oea's scaur. They will be vanquished: Dread are our warriors, dread Theseus our chieftain's men.
Now scaur and ravine changed and rolled back to jagged mountains on the horizon's edge, and now broke into hills lower and lower, till at last came the true plains.
Our cottage was just a couple of minutes' walk to the sandy, family-friendly beach, where a wealth of sealife can be found in the ledges of rock, known as scaurs, which reach out to sea.