Land
LAND, sb.1 and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. Eng. and Amer. Also in forms laan Bnff.1 Cum.4; laand Sh.I.; lan Sc. (Jam.) Cai.1 Chs.1 Dev.2; landy Dev.3; lant Sh.&Ork.1 Bnff.1 Der. n.Dev.; laund, launde Sc. Sh.I. Not.; lond Lan. e.An.1 e.An.2 e.Suf.; londe Nrf. Hmp.; lont Hrf.2; loon Chs.1; loont nw.Chs.; lount Chs.1 Chs.2 Chs.3; lund e.Yks. [lan(d, lænd, lond.] 1. sb. In comb. (1) Land-and-band, an old-fashioned way of reaping; see below; (2) Land-bat, the staff of the plough which keeps the colter in position, also used to tap the ‘wreest’ into place; (3) Land-bernicle, the barnacle-goose, Bernicla leucopsis; (4) Land-briars, the long tangled shoots of the blackberry, Rubus fruticosus; (5) Land-burst, a succession of a few breakers at change of tide, or at intervals during a storm; (6) Land-cormorant, the goosander, Mergus merganser; (7) Land-cress, (a) the yellow rocket, Barbarea praecox; (b) the winter cress, Barbarea vulgaris; (c) the lamb's cress, Cardamine hirsuta; (d) the large bitter-cress, Cardamine amara; (8) Land-dam, a bank of earth made to stop a current, or to divert it into another channel; (9) Land-daw, the carrion crow, Corvus corone; (10) Land-ditching, under-ditching; (11) Land-ditch spade, a small spade; (12) Land-doctor, a professional valuer of land; (13) Land-doles, portions of common meadow-land allotted to various holdings in a township; (14) Land-drain plough, obs., see below; (15) Land-drake, the corncrake, Crex pratensis; (16) Land-fall, (a) the flood-tide; in phr. to make a landfall, to make a port in a storm; (b) fig. a windfall; (17) Land-fall plough, see (14); (18) Land-folk, country people, rural population; (19) Land-gate(s, towards the interior of the country; (20) Land-grass, (a) the slender foxtail grass, Alopecurus agrestis; (b) clover or annual grasses when mown for hay; (21) Land-hall, part of a ‘sull’; see below; (22) Land-harlan, the red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator; (23) Land-hay, meadow hay; (24) Land-horse, in ploughing: the horse on the left; the one that treads on the unploughed land; (25) Land-lark, the common sandpiper, Tringoides hypoleucus; (26) Land-lash, a heavy fall of rain accompanied by a high wind; (27) Land-lord, the head of the family; the host; (28) Land-lord at the door, a term in whist; see below; (29) Land-louper, a vagrant; a vagabond; one who flees the country to avoid payment of debts or arrest; an adventurer; (30) Land-louping, rambling, migratory, shifting from place to place; (31) Land-lubbing, belonging to a countryman; (32) Land-lung or Land-lin, the liverwort, Peltidea canina; (33) Land-mail, rent; (34) Land('s-man, one who earns his living on shore; a landowner; (35) Land-march, a boundary; (36) Land-mark, a mark on land by which sailors steer; (37) Land's-mark day, the day on which the marches are ridden; (38) Land-master, the proprietor of the land; (39) Land-mate, a man who reaps with another on the same ridge of ground; (40) Land-mauls, gulls that follow the plough; (41) Land-mend, to level the ground with a shovel after wheat has been sown; (42) Land-merchant, obs., a dealer who carried woollen goods to country markets; (43) Land-metster, a measurer of land; (44) Land-rail, see (15); (45) Land-reak or Land-roak, fog arising from the ground; (46) Land-robber, the butterdock, Rumex obtusifolius; (47) Land-sale, coal sold at the pit's mouth and taken away in carts; also used attrib.; any depôt or yard for the sale of such coal; (48) Land-scot(e, obs., the assessment of lands for the maintenance of the Church; (49) Land-sea, heavy breakers on the shore; (50) Land-serjeant, obs., one of the officers of the border watch; (51) Land-setting, letting of land; (52) Land-setting cop, a fee or fine paid by the tenant at the letting of a farm; (53) Land-shard or Land-sherd, (a) a strip of greensward or of untilled land dividing two pieces of arable in a common field; (b) a terrace on a hillside; (54) Land-share or Land-shire, the part of the furrow-head which is next to the ditch; (55) Land-shut, a flood; (56) Land-side, the part of the plough which goes next to the unturned soil; (57) Land-spring, a spring which only flows in wet weather; (58) Land-spring eels, fresh-water eels; (59) Land-stone, a stone gathered from the soil of a field, in contradistinction to one found in the bed of a river; (60) Land-stroke, the iron which is fixed on the side of the head of the plough; (61) Land-sucker, a tenant who takes a farm with the intention of getting all he can out of the land in the first years of his tenancy; (62) Land-tide, the undulating motion seen in the air on a hot day; (63) Land-tow, a cable for fastening a boat to the shore; (64) Land-tripper or Land-trippit, see (25); (65) Land-waster, a prodigal; a spendthrift; (66) Land-waters, rivers overflowing and flooding the land; (67) Land-ways, by land; (68) Land-whin, the rest-harrow, Ononis arvensis and Ononis spinosa; (69) Land-yard, a measure of land, (a) a rod; (b) 18 feet. (1) Yks. The reaper would take a ‘land’ in a cornfield which was generally about six feet across and go down the whole length of the field. A woman would thus reap about half an acre a day and a man an acre. (2) Ken. (P.M.) (3) w.Cy. (E.H.G.) (4) Shr.1 The term is chiefly applied to such ‘briars’ as grow under trees. (5) Cai.1 (6) Dub. Swainson Birds (1885) 164. (7, a) Yks., War., Mid., s.Cy. (B. & H.), I.W. (C.J.V.) (b) I.W. (C.J.V.) (c) w.Chs. (B. & H.), War.3, Hmp.1 (d) Chs.1 (8) Nhp.1 Often... at a spring head, when cleaning out a watercourse; or in a ditch, in order to collect a supply of water for any purpose. (9) Nhp. Swainson Birds 83; Nhp.1 (10) Ess. Reports Agric. (1793-1813) 203. (11) Ess. The small or land-ditch spade should be made gradually tapering from the shoulder to the bottom, Marshall Review (1811) III. 510. (12) Yks. The manager of the estate sent a land doctor who charges so much per pound for valuing, MARSHALL Review (1808) I. 362. (13) Chs.1 Pieces or parcels of land or landoles situate lying or being in a certain meadow in Mobberley, Extract from deed (1834). (14) Ess. In use 50 or 60 years ago. It was all wood except for the iron share. The furrow was first made with a common plough and then the ‘land-drain-plough’ was used to make the furrow the required depth (H.H.M.). (15) War.3 Shr. Swainson Birds 177; Shr.1 Glo. Gl. (1851); Glo.1, Oxf. (G.E.D.) (16, a) Sh.I., Sh.&Ork.1 n.Yks.2 ‘That ship has made a brave landfall.’ ‘They've got a bonny land-fall,’ a large amount of property bequeathed. (17) Ess. Much of this land has been hollow drained at a pole apart... The means at present pursued to relieve the land of its surface water is to use the land-fall-plough and to water furrow, Marshall Review (1811) III. 480; (H.H.M.) (18) Ayr. The land folk'll get a skelping the day if I dinna misdoubt, Johnston Kilmallie (1891) I. 95. (19) n.Sc. (Jam.) Abd. Landgates unto the hills she took the gate, Ross Helenore (1768) 95 (JAM.). Fif. Ye may jist gae land-gaet back wi' them, Robertson Provost (1894) 136. (20, a) Bdf. Batchelor Agric. (1813) 324. (b) w.Som.1 Auy-v u-fún·eesh kuut·een au·l mee lan·graas, bud aay aa·n u-begee·n dhu mee·udz, naut ee·t [I have finished cutting all my land grass, but I have not yet begun the meadows]. (21) Dev. Land-hall or handle, made of oak, ash, or elm grown similar thereto, about four inches thick at the foot and beam mortice, Moore Hist. Devon (1829) I. 296. (22) Wxf. Swainson Birds 164. (23) Dev.3 (24) n.Sc. (Jam.), Cai.1 sw.Lin.1 We put him for the land horse; his feet are a bit tender. (25) Nhb.1 (26) Lnk. When comes the landlash wi' rain and splash, Marmaiden of Clyde, in Edb. Mag. (May 1820) (Jam.). (27) Sc. His manner seemed that of a polished landlord towards an unexpected and unwelcome guest, Scott Redg. (1824) Lett. iv; Persons still persist among us in calling the head of the family or the host the landlord, Ramsay Remin. (1859) 216. (28) Cum.4 Said at Whist when the high value of the trump used to take a trick shewed it to be the last in the player's hand. (29) Sc. Scouring the country like a landlouper, Scott Redg. (1824) Lett. ii. Abd. Some limmer or landlouper loun, Wi' braw claise on tak' lodgings i' your town, Anderson Poems (ed. 1856) 9. Per. Peddlars and siclike landloupers, Spence Poems (1898) 83. Rnf. Ye vile land louper, Webster Rhymes (1835) 109. Ayr. A land-louper that naebody kens onything about, Galt Lairds (1826) xxviii. e.Lth. Ye lousy landlouper! Hunter J. Inwick (1895) 237. Edb. Gae wa, ye landlouper, and stay in the land ye lo'e best, Ballantine Gaberlunzie (ed. 1875) 18. Gall. This hulking landlouper, Crockett Sunbonnet (1895) xv. N.Cy.1, Cum.2 Cum.4 n.Yks.1; n.Yks.2 A vender of nostrums; a quack; n.Yks.3 n.Yks.4 (30) Sc. The laws of our own land... have declared these land-louping villains impudent sturdy beggars, Player's Scourge, i (Jam.). (31) Slg. Told them to lock their slack land-lubbing jaw, Galloway Sutor's Mag. (1810) 27. (32) Suf. (B. & H.), e.Suf. (F.H.) (33) Sh.I. Landmails, where these were exigible, and dues of every kind, were also paid mostly in wadmell and in oil and butter or other produce, Sh. News (Feb. 5, 1898); An annual tribute or rent was paid, known by the name of Land-mail; but in each year where the soil was not under tillage, the acknowledgment of land-mail was altogether remitted, Hibbert Desc. Sh. I. (1822) 43, ed. 1891. Or.I. The udal scats, with land-mails and teinds, being the characteristic burdens of the udal lands, Peterkin Notes (1822) 130. (34) Sc. For Scotland's conquered up and down; Landmen we'll never be, Scott Minstrelsy (1802) l. 320, ed. 1848. Bnff.1 Wgt. Two guineas to every ordinary seaman, and one guinea to every landman belonging to this town, Fraser Wigtown (1877) 73. (35) Abd. The day of the ryding of the town's land-merches, Turreff Gleanings (1859) 13. (36) Sc. (Jam.), Bnff.1 (37) Lnk. The other [custom] is the riding of the marches,.. done annually upon the day after Whitsun-day fair, by the magistrates and burgesses, called here the landsmark or langemark day, Statist. Acc. XV. 45, 46 (Jam.). (38) Sh.I., Sh.&Ork.1 (39) Hrf. (P.R.) (40) Yks. Yks. Wkly. Post (Dec. 31, 1898). (41) Glo. Gl. (1851); Glo.1 (42) Yks. Henderson Flk-Lore (1879) vi. (43) Arg. The moderator... administered the oath to... John Currie, land-metster, and instructed said John Currie to measure out one half acre, Law Case (1822) (Jam.). (44) Dev. The land-rail seems to have never ceased its cry, O'Neill Idyls (1892) 72. (45) n.Lin.1 (46) Wil. Kennard Diogenes (1893) vi. (47) Nhb.1 A landsale colliery is one doing a home trade in house coals which are loaded into the carts on the spot. Nhb., Dur. Nicholson Coal Tr. Gl. (1888). (48) Sus.1 (49) Cai.1 (50) Nhb.1 To the land-serjeant was committed the apprehending of delinquents and the care of the public peace. (51) Sc. (Jam.) (52) Sh.I. & Or.I. Oppressions, 126 (Jam. Suppl.). (53, a) Wil. Davis Agric. (1813), in Archaeol. Rev. (1888) I. 36; Wil.1, Dor. (C.W.) w.Som.1 Either between two crops, or to mark a boundary where there is no fence. (b) Dor. Elworthy Gl. (1888). w.Som.1 (54) Dev. Commonly cover'd with thorns and briars, Horae Subsecivae (1777) 243. (55) Hrf.1 From the water being shot or projected over the land; Hrf.2 (56) Sc. (Jam.), Cai.1, Bnff.1, Nhb.1, n.Lin.1 Bdf. The friction of the ground-rist, land-side and bottom of the plough, is known to add considerably to the draught of it, Batchelor Agric. (1815) 173. e.Suf. (F.H.) w.Som.1 An iron plate or shoe fastened to the breast of a plough on the side which slides along against the unploughed soil or land. The landside is the part against which all the resistance of the raising and turning of the sod presses. (57) Nhp.2 Morton Nat. Hist. (1712) 318. Wil.1 Jefferies Gamekeeper (1878) v. (58) e.Suf. (F.H.) (59) Bwk. In all free soils, numerous stones, provincially termed land-stones, are found of various sizes, Agric. Surv. 35 (Jam.). Wgt. A space in the centre... was paved with large land-stones, Fraser Wigtown (1877) 31. Chs.1; Chs.3 These pebbles are found from a half ounce to some tons in weight; and used in former days to be used as the sole material for paving and making roads... It is a common idea with the peasantry that ‘stones grow.’ (60) e.An.1, e.Suf. (F.H.) (61) n.Lin.1 (62) Cld. Whar the dew ne'er scanc't, nor the landtide danc'd, Edb. Mag. (Oct. 1818) 328 (Jam.). (63) Sh.I. If ye gie some folk a hair dey will mak' a tedder o' it; bit dey could a ca'ed it a laand-tow fir da magnifin' powers o' some ane 'at we ken o', Sh. News (Jan. 15, 1898). (64) Gall. (Jam.) Kcb. The sea-fowl are sand-pipers, here called land-trippers, Statist. Acc. XI. 14 (JAM.); Swainson Birds 196. (65) Cld. (Jam.) (66) Dev.2 There's lan-watters down to Vorda; Dev.3 (67) Abd. He has them landways to London, and from thence transported them by sea over into France, Spalding Hist. Sc. (1792) I. 20. (68) e.An.1 It probably has its name from spreading itself obstinately over the surface of the land,.. whereas the prickly plant, which is more generally called ‘whin,’ is... confined to borders or hedges. e.Suf. (F.H.) (69, a) w.Som.1 We hadn a-went no more'n two or dree lan'-yard, hon off come the wheel, and there we was. Dev. I'll warrant I bring you within a land-yard of'un, Whyte-Melville Katerfelto (1875) xxii. nw.Dev.1 (b) Cor.1 2. Phr. (1) land that is in heart, land that has been recently manured; rich soil; (2) to get out on the land, to work in the fields; (3) to give a plough land or to give a plough land in the beam, to set it more to the right so as to cut a broader furrow; (4) to go round land, to die; (5) to take land, to rent a farm. (1) e.Yks. Corne that is sowne on lande that is in hearte will allwayes bee sooner ripe, Best Rur. Econ. (1641) 53. (2) Ken. (D.W.L.) (3) Bnff.1 Nhb.1 Giving a plough too much or too little land in the beam is when it is set too much to the right, or vice versa. (4) Cor. He went round land at last, an' was foun' dead in hes bed, ‘Q.’ Troy Town (1888) xi; I feel myself going round land; but with my last breath I'll do thee good, Hunt Pop. Rom. w.Eng. (1865) 59, ed. 1896. (5) Sh.I. Marryin' an' takin' o' laand wis niver keepit hid yet, Sh. News (Nov. 6, 1897). 3. An estate of land. Cum.1 Willy Fisher o' Winscales hed three lands; Cum.4 Hrt. The Baulk runs 'tween the two lands (H.G.). 4. Freehold land, in contradistinction to leasehold. Chs.1 It's not on lease, it's land. w.Som.1 Ee-v u-boa·ut dhu luy·vz un u-mae·ud lan· oa ut [He has bought the lives and made land of it] ─ i.e. purchased the fee simple. ‘Tid-n u bee·t oa ut lan·.’ Of any unmarried female who is not thought likely to attract a suitor, the ordinary remark is ‘Uur-z lan· aa·l wau·rn ur’ [She is land, I'll warrant her] ─ i.e. that her possession is as secure to her father as freehold. Dev. (Hall.) n.Dev. And than there's the lant up to Parracomb Town, Exm. Crtshp. (1746) l. 407. 5. Pasture land; stinted common pasture; a piece of land in a common field; untilled land. Bnff.1 A'm gain t'fork o' the laan, an' nae i' the corn-yard. N.I.1 ‘Come on the land,’ i.e. come off the road into the fields. e.Yks. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796). Chs.2 Chs.3 6. Arable land as distinguished from pasture. Cai.1, e.An.1 e.An.2 7. Low-lying ground. Hrf.2, Sus.1 8. Unploughed earth. Nhb.1 9. The space between two furrows in a ploughed field; a strip of land in an unenclosed field. Edb. Unruly bands, Do spread themsel's athwart the lands, Har'st Rig (1794) 12, ed. 1801. Gall. When a banwun o' reapers are kemping up a lan', the weak of course fall behind the stronger, Mactaggart Encycl. (1824) 245, ed. 1876. n.Cy. Grose (1790). Cum.4 An' noo as we've gitten till t'end o' t'land, what d'ye think o' yer-sels? Farrall Betty Wilson (1886) 131. n.Yks. By ‘lands’ are here meant what in some parts are called ‘steaches’ or ridges, a certain breadth of ground ploughed together, Tuke Agric. (1800) 103; 4 or 6 yards broad (I.W.); n.Yks.1 n.Yks.4, ne.Yks.1 e.Yks. I have knowne a dozen ordinary shearers sheare fower landes in a day, Best Rur. Econ. (1641) 43; e.Yks.1 A breadth of ploughing about 10 feet wide. m.Yks.1 w.Yks. The township of Wibsey is divided up into little narrow strips... The name given to them in past and present time is ‘lands,’ and they are let out, as the local phrase ran, ‘by-the land,’ Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Feb. 14, 1885) 8; w.Yks.1 w.Yks.2 Chs.1 A butt in a field which belongs to another owner, and which no doubt has formerly been a strip in a common field. nw.Chs. Sheaf (1883) III. 15. Der. (L.W.) Not. He was riding down the middle of the land when I saw him (L.C.M.); Not.2 s.Not. Under the old style of cultivation a close was ploughed in narrow breadths, called lands, each of which was ploughed in the contrary direction to the neighbouring lands. They were separated from one another by a deep furrow, and were of rounded shape... This configuration was for the purpose of drainage (J.P.K.). n.Lin. Long narrow slips called lands, Peacock R. Skirlaugh (1870) I. 279. s.Lin. (T.H.R.) sw.Lin.1 He ploughed it up into round six yard lands. Lei.1 Nhp.1 Each land is separated by a narrow strip of greensward called a balk. ‘How many lands have you ploughed today?’ ‘A land of potatoes,’ ‘a land of carrots’; Nhp.2, War. (W.G.), War.2 War.3 War.4 s.War.1 A land is one ridge and furrow. se.Wor.1, Hrf.1 Hrf.2, Glo. (S.S.B.), Glo.1, Oxf.1 Brks.1 Families take lands as portions for reaping. Bdf. Batchelor Agric. (1813) 359. w.Mid. (W.P.M.), Hnt. (T.P.F.) e.An.1 In the old maps of uninclosed parishes, each field is divided into furlongs, and each furlong into londs. Nrf. (A.G.), e.Suf. (F.H.) Sur. It treads a little leathery in some places in the middle o' the lands, Hoskyns Talpa (1852) 90, ed. 1857; Sur.1 w.Sus., Hmp. In wet soils ten ridges constitute a land, while in drier ones they reach as high as thirty-two, Holloway. Wil.1 n.Wil. The long regular Atlantic swells of the furrows and lands, Jefferies Wild Life (1879) 119. [Amer. When a field is ploughed in strips or sections to avoid ‘dead furrows’ each strip is called a land, Dial. Notes (1896) I. 420.] 10. A definite quantity of corn ready for cutting. s.Oxf. The corn was measured out in ‘lands’ and so much paid for cutting ‘a land,’ Rosemary Chilterns (1895) 68. Hmp. Holloway (s.v. Broad band). 11. A storied building; a house let out in tenements; a story or tenement in such a building. Sc. A certain old gentlewoman... who dwelt in the top of a tall land on a strait close, Stevenson Catriona (1893) xx. Bnff. The front Land, or House, consisted of three storeys, Gordon Chron. Keith (1880) 67. Abd. Get his Portrait fully drawn... And placit in front o' that bra' Lan' That's now their ain, Cock Strains (1810) I. 133. Per. His own lodging and tenement was in danger of burning, because that the nether house under his land wanted a chimney, Lawson Bk. of Per. (1847) 229. w.Sc. She lived in a storeyed building ─ in local vernacular, a land, Napier Flk-Lore (1879) 69. Rnf. Directed for Mrs. Luk's, next land to the Sugarie, Wodrow Corresp. (1709-1714) I. 108, ed. 1842. Lnk. When it's your turn o' the washin-hoose; but no till then, if ye were to bring the lan' doon aboot my lugs, Murdoch Readings (1895) I. 24. Lth. The land cam' doun i' the deid o' the nicht, Smith Merry Bridal (1866) 13. Gall. In the close streets... of Scottish cities, where, in tiers of stories or lands, as they are called, with a common staircase, often fourteen or fifteen families are sheltered under one roof, Nicholson Hist. Tales (1843) 228. 12. Phr. a land of houses, a house let out in separate flats. Sh.I. A large ‘land’ of houses, similar to those so common in Edinburgh, Cowie Sh. (1871) 120. Ayr. I was on terms anent the bigging of a land of houses on my new steading at the town-end, Galt Provost (1822) xvii. 13. pl. The high open parts of the New Forest. Hmp. De Crespigny New Forest (1895) iii. 14. v. To divide a field in ploughing into given widths. n.Yks.1 T'far field's landed despe'tly oneven. 15. Of sand: to carry it from the beach to the top of the cliff. nw.Dev.1 He us'd to draive the dungkeys landin' zan'. 16. To arrive, reach; to reach home; to come to the ground; also fig. to succeed; to finish any business. Sc. How did ye land? how did the business terminate? (Jam.) N.I.1 I landed off the car at six o'clock. Cum. He hadn't landed, that is to say, reached home, Sullivan Cum. and Wm. (1857) 89; Cum.1 Cum.4 Wm. 'At Sarah Ann wad land A nivver meead nea fear, Wilson K. Kirkie's Kersmassing, 103; Wm.1 We thowt he waddent come t'l Monda but he land't oop last neet. n.Yks.1 He landed seeaf hame last neeght efter dark; n.Yks.4 ne.Yks.1 Ah had ti put t'au'd meer intiv a muck lather, bud it's owered, an' ah's landed. Dust ta think thoo'll land? w.Yks.5 Used often ironically, as when a lad having been absent upon an errand a very long time, his master says upon his re-appearance, ─ ‘Soa thah's landed hes tuh?’ Lan. Owd Judd hadn't londed, Waugh Heather (ed. Milner) I. 222. s.Not. I shot, and my arrer just landed yonder hedge (J.P.K.). s.Lin. (T.H.R.) War.3 ‘Landed with feet to spare’ [in jumping a brook], Leamington Spa Courier (Jan. 1885). Oxf. (G.O.) 17. With up: to clog with mire; gen. in pp. Lin. (Hall.) n.Lin.1 It gets fairly landed up wi' th' sand that weshes off 'n Manton common. sw.Lin.1 Oh, dear, how landed up you've gotten. e.An.1 He came walking over the ploughed field, and was londed up to the knees; e.An.2 A plough is londed-up when clogged and impeded by a tenacious soil. e.Suf. (F.H.) 18. To plough continuously round a first furrow; to plough the ridges up high for winter corn. War. Morton Cyclo. Agric. (1863); War.4 You're landing up those lands right well, Thomas, and quite rightly too; we'l be
having a wet winter I feel pretty sartain.
LAND, sb.2 Sc. Also in form lan. A hook in the form of the letter S. n.Sc. (Jam.) Bnff. The hook that attaches the swingle-tree to
the yoke of a plough. In regular use (W.C.).
LAND, see Lant, sb.2
LAND, sb.1 Sc. Yks. In comb. (1) Land-quhaup, the curlew; (2) Land-schuld, see below; (3) Land-tied, haying pieces of wood nailed on to that portion of a post which is sunk in the ground to form a larger surface; (4) Land-trow, see Trow, sb.2 (1) Sc.(Jam., s.v. Quhaup). (2) Or.I. The ‘scat’ being of old distinguished from the ‘land-schuld,’ or ‘skyld,’ or ‘land-mail,’ Peterkin Notes (1822) Append. 95. (3) w.Yks. (B.K.) (4) Sh.I. The warlocks of Shetland communed with various demons, known by the name of Sea-trows and Land-trows, Hibbert Desc.