skailingn.
/ˈskeɪlɪŋ/ 1. The action of the verb in various senses; dismissal, dispersion.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun] > action of scattering or becoming scattered > breaking up of an assembly of people
skailing?c1450
breaking up1463
dismissiona1646
break-up1795
dissembly1887
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > driving away in all directions
sparpling1434
dispersionc1450
skailing?c1450
sparklingc1460
disparplinga1513
dissipation1545
dispersing1604
segregationa1616
scatteration1776
disjectiona1806
dispersal1821
scatteraway1851
spreadeagling1869
?c1450 in Ratis Raving 16 Tyme of scalynge, tyme of gaderinge.
1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 354 To Johnstoune,..that brocht tithingis of the skaling of the Inglismen, iij s.
1523 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VI. 206 He [Burbon] myght..percace have ben redy, leng before the tyme of ther skaling.
1569–70 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1875) 269 To enter euerye day at the skaling of the nycht wasche.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 190 The Erll Marschall haveing sure intelligens of the skailling of the barronis army.
1651 in Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) Introd. 53 Mr...Boyd to be spoken to about the soon scaling of the Barony Kirk on Sunday afternoon.
1805 J. Nicol Poems II. 158 (Jam.) It sall soon get a scailin!
1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 527/1 They were discussed and pulled to pieces at the ‘scaling of the kirk’, as the parishioners trudged homewards.
2. Mining. An opening through which the ventilating current passes.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > ventilation passages or openings
througher1645
thirling1686
air-pit1709
horse-head1747
sollar1778
airway1800
wind-hole1802
bearing door1813
air course1814
downcast shaft1814
upcast shaft (or pit)1816
buze1823
air road1832
raggling1839
thirl1847
brattice1849
intake1849
run1849
trapdoor1849
skailing1850
return1851
wind-road1860
breakthrough1875
wind-way1875
breast1882
cross-heading1883
skail-door1883
U.C.1883
undercast1883
vent1886
furnace-drift1892
the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilator > ventilation opening or hole > in a mine
skail-doora1693
bearing door1813
trapdoor1849
skailing1850
weather-door1881
1850 D. T. Ansted Elem. Course Geol. iv. xix. 490 The current of air once obtained, is conducted through the passages of the mine by various contrivances, consisting of..partitions, and partial orifices or scalings.
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