turskillSc.dial. [var. of tuskar, prob. after Gael.tairisgil.] A kind of spade for cutting peat. 1812J. Henderson Agric.Surv. Caithn. 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.