scottering

English

Noun

scottering (uncountable)

1. (UK, dialect, West Country, Herefordshire, obsolete) The burning of a wad of pea straw at the end of harvest.

References

• Francis Tebbs Havergal, Herefordshire words & phrases, colloquial and archaic, about 1300 in number, current in the county.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scottering”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• corsetting