Definition of "scaur" []

• A steep cliff or bank. (noun)

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• "I dare say you have seen upon some dreary moor, or at the foot of some 'scaur' on the hillside, the bleached bones of a sheep, lying white and grim among the purple heather."
• "Three sons he had, three bright and stirring boys; they must to school, and school was far away; — and they must clamber where the hill – track failed, by narrow ledges through the headlong scaur."
• "Here is the wonderful reindeer that bore, at Gendin, Peer Gynt over edge and scaur."