Middle English Dictionary Entry
scaue n.
Entry Info
| Forms | scaue n. Also skaue. |
| Etymology | Cp. Scot. scaw a faded mark, blemish & MnE dial. (SW) scovy, scawv(e)y blotched, streaky. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An imperfection in cloth.
Associated quotations
- (1463-4) RParl.5.501b : In case that eny such diversite, or rawe, scawe, kokell or fagge, happen to be in eny part of the seid Clothes or half Clothes, Streytes or Kerseyes, that then a seale of Lede..be put and hynge in the utter partie of the mergyne of the same Cloth or half Cloth, Streyte or Kersey at thentre of every diversite rawe, skawe, kokell, or fagge aboveseid.