Crossword-Solution: ETTLING 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The provost maun ken nothing about it, or let on that he doesna ken, which is the same thing, for folk would say that he was ettling at something of the kind for himself, and was only eager for a precedent.

Dinwiddie was a gleg man, of a jocose nature; and he, guessing something of what I was ettling at, was very mirthful with me; but I kept my own counsel till a meet season.

Now is the time, auld warlock,--now is the time; he's ettling at a king's daughter, but his neck lies in wad, and the forfeit will be his undoing." "The time is not yet come, valiant knight; nevertheless the prophecy is true.

But now the most novel scene of all occurred: my master still continued to change his ground, and to skip and fly about, until at length the yeoman, encouraged by his wife's words, came hard upon him, and, heaving up his shield a little, he came with a deadly stroke round below it, ettling to cut off both my master's legs.