Crossword-Solution: SKIR 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

How much, then, per fathom (or measure, if you please, by cable-lengths) is land worth fronting the noble, silent, uncontaminating, healthful sea? Whence can come no coster-mongers' cries, no agitating skir of bagpipes or the maddening hurdy-gurdy, no German band expecting half a crown for the creation of insanity; only sweet murmur of the wavelets, and the melodious whistle of a boatman catching your breakfast lobster.

The two last, though inferior in size to the boas, are more to be dreaded; and my horse springs back when he sees the one glistening through the grass, or hears the "skir-r-r-r" of the other threatening to strike.

Procured a very good hack at Tattersal's, and daily "skir the country round." The environs of this city possess more variety of scenery than one would suppose from a cursory glance at the country, which appears tame and unbroken.

His eyes glared with a fiery lustre: the skir-r-r of his rattles could be heard almost incessantly; while with his upraised head he struck repeatedly in the direction of his enemy.

Formerly it consisted of two persons riding on a horse back to back, with _ladles_ and _marrow-bones_ in hand, and was intended to ridicule a hen-pecked husband Skir _v._ skim, mow lightly, as thistles Skir-devil _s._ a black martin, swift Skirrings _s._ hay made in pasture lands from the long grass left by the cattle Skitty _s._ a water-rail Skitty-vamps _s._ laced half boots Skred, Skride _v._ to stride Slat, Slate _v._ to split, crack, crumble Slate _s._ a sheep-run.