sgrath

Cognate with Irish scrath; see Old Irish scaraid (“to tear apart”).

sgrath f (genitive singular sgratha, plural sgrathan)

1. outer skin or rind of anything, husk, peel, crust
2. bark (of a tree)
3. layer of an onion
4. turf, green sod, divot, as used for covering roofs of houses
5. horror, dread
6. rust
7. scale (balance)
8. rough handling
9. long rhyme
10. pull, tug
11. what covers the kiln of grain
12. greensward

• sgrathail

sgrath m

1. (anatomy) cortex

sgrath (past sgrath, future sgrathaidh, verbal noun sgrathadh, past participle sgrathte)

1. peel, skin, exfoliate
2. pare, excoriate
3. tug, pull or handle roughly

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgrath”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page sgrath