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Etymology
Compare West English scottle (“to shear, cut off.”)
Pronunciation
Noun
skudhelès
- knives
1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:A skudhelès, lhaung roosta, wull glaude leth aam what.- The knives, that were long rusty, well-pleased let them whet.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68