DCHP-3

skirtings

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. pl.

See quote.

See: road allowance(def. 1)

Quotations

1849
. . . having no money to buy land, they turned up the soil on the cleared sides of the roads, called the skirtings, among the stumps, there they sowed corn and planted potatoes.