Scaut. (1) v. To strain with the foot in supporting or pushing (A.); as at foot-ball, or in drawing a heavy load uphill; to stretch the legs out violently. Scote in S. Wilts.—N. & S.W.
'Stick your heels in the ground, arch your spine, and drag with all your might at a rope, and then you would be said to "scaut." Horses going uphill, or straining to draw a heavily laden waggon through a mud hole "scaut" and tug.'—Village Miners.
(2) n. The pole attached to the axle, and let down behind the wheel, to prevent the waggon from running back while ascending a hill (A.S.).—N. & S.W.
*School-bell. Campanula rotundifolia, L., Harebell.—N.W. (Enford.)
Scoop. (1) A shovel (D.).—N.W. (2) Allowance or start in a race, &c. 'How much scoop be you a going to gie I?'—N. & S.W. (Baverstock, &c.)
'Alwaies dyd shroud and cut theyre fuel for that purpose along all the Raage on Brayden's syde alwaies taking as much Skoop from the hedge as a man could through [throw] a hatchet.'—Perambulation of the Great Park of Fasterne near Wootton Bassett, 1602.
The original document is in the Devizes Museum.—N.W.
Scotch. A chink, a narrow opening. The spaces between the boards in a floor are scotches.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, Huish, &c.)
Scote. See Scaut.