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▪ I. skelf Sc. (and north. dial.).
Also 4–5 skelfe.
[prob. ad. Du. or LG. schelf, related to shelf n.]
A shelf (see also quot. 1802).
1396–7Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 214, j skelfe pro caseo. 1408Ibid. 223, ij skelfes. c1480Henryson Fables, Town & C. Mouse xv, Baith cheis and butter vpoun thair skelfis hie. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iii. ii, On skelfs foregainst the door. 1768Ross Helenore ii. 71 On skelfs a' round the wa's the cogs were set. 1802Findlater Agric. Peebles 41 Above it, lying against the slaunt of the roof, is the skelf, or frame, containing shelves. 1837R. P. Gillies Recoll. Sir W. Scott iii. ix. 200 The whole of the skelves cam to an accident and fell down. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb (1873) 169 He has a hantle o' rael gweed claith upo' yon back skelfs.
▪ II. skelf, n.2 Sc.|skɛlf|
Also 7 skelv(e, 9 skelve.
[Prob. ad. obs. Du. schelf scale, flake, or splinter of wood, and ult. cognate with skelf n.1]
1. A sliver or splinter, usu. of wood, esp. one lodged in the skin.
c1610J. Melville Mem. (1827) 24 They wer hurt..with skelves of stanes be the force of our battery. Ibid. 84 The King Hendre 2 being hurt in the head with the skelv of a spair. 1808Jamieson, Skelve,..a thin slice, lamina. 1884‘Cruck-A-Leaghan’ & ‘Slieve Gallion’ Lays & Legends N. of Ireland 88 Nor a skelf av thir hides, nor a tuft av their hair. 1895J. Nicholson Kilwuddie (ed. 4) 197 ‘What's the maitter wi' yer finger, guidman?’ ‘I think I hae gotten a skelf..intill't.’ 1914N. Munro New Road xxx. 308 He..cut a skelf from the boarding of one hole. 1926Contemp. Rev. July 125 He shows the wounds he has received from a dragoon in O'Connell Street, and a skelf from a bobby's bâton at a Labour meeting in Phoenix Park. 1947H. W. Pryde First Bk. McFlannels ii. 22 He had a skelf in his finger. 1959Bulletin (Glasgow) 8 May 11/4 Don't neglect the pricks from rose thorns, rusty (or even clean) wires, a skelf of wood—anything like that should be treated at once, with respect and hot fomentations. 1979L. Derwent Border Bairn i. 11 Extracting a skelf from a sore thumb.
2. A small or slight person; one who is a nuisance. colloq.
1927Scots Mag. June 172 Pit doon that fryin'-pan, ye wee skelf. 1951N. B. Morrison Hidden Fairing 97 A wee skelf of a man put in his head. 1975W. McIlvanney Docherty ii. x. 181 ‘Away, ya skelf,’ the man went on. ‘You young yins think ye inventit men an' women.’ 1985M. Munro Patter 63 The weight's fell aff her—she's nuthin but a skelf. |