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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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CHATTERY, adj. Stony, hard (Bnff.² 1939). Cf. Yks. dial. chattery, stony, pebbly (E.D.D.).ne.Sc. 1952 John R. Allan North-East Lowlands of Scotland (1974) 25:
What does the boy in the turnip field get there, as he hangs on to a swede with one hand and his cap with the other against the force of a nor-west gale? There must be a something in those chattery fields.Peb. 1845 Stat. Acc.² III. 141–142:
It was a moss soil . . . in which the cattle . . . used often to be bogged. . . . Lying upon a bottom of chattery rock, no ditch could confine the water.