Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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SHORE, n.2 A strip of grass or corn cut down by a scytheman between one sharpening of his blade and the next, a swath of mown grass or corn (Ork. 1929 Marw.).
[A conflation of Norw. skår, O.N. skári, id., and Shear.]
