Crossword-Solution: AIKS 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The rankit aiks it overthrew, Had braved a’ weathers; The strang sea-gleds it took an’ blew Awa’ like feathers.

Among the bowis of the olive twists, Sere[24] small fowls, working crafty nests, Endlong the hedges thick, and on rank aiks[25] Ilk bird rejoicing with their mirthful makes.

The sunrise will see me weel oot o' the settlements." "And we meet here again at midnight." "Depend upon it, sir, unless the rapscallion rebels should catch and hang me up to one of the tall aiks o' the Chaudière." "Never fear, Donald; a traitor's death was never meant for an old soldier of the King, like you." The young officer entered his boat and immediately bent to the oars.

The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo; The rankit aiks it overthrew, Had braved a' weathers; The strang sea-gleds it took an' blew Awa' like feethers.

And then he saw the cause, for Heriot was coming down in a furious flood, sixty yards wide, tearing at the roots of the aiks, and flinging red waves against the drystone dykes.