sgrath

== Scottish Gaelic == === Etymology === Cognate with Irish scrath; see Old Irish scaraid (“to tear apart”). === Noun === sgrath f (genitive singular sgratha, plural sgrathan) outer skin or rind of anything, husk, peel, crust bark (of a tree) layer of an onion turf, green sod, divot, as used for covering roofs of houses horror, dread rust scale (balance) rough handling long rhyme pull, tug what covers the kiln of grain greensward ==== Derived terms ==== sgrathail === Noun === sgrath m (anatomy) cortex === Verb === sgrath (past sgrath, future sgrathaidh, verbal noun sgrathadh, past participle sgrathte) peel, skin, exfoliate pare, excoriate tug, pull or handle roughly === Further reading === MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “sgrath”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page sgrath