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Schore means shorn or cut off, and the English shore means 

 that part of the land which is cut off by the sea, and where it 

 ends at the sea. 



" Scar, a bare and broken rock on the side of a mountain, or 

 in the high bank of a river. Suio-Goth. skcer, rupes ; Sax. carre. 



Scars, cinders burnt to a very hard substance ; often used to 

 mend the roads." Brockett. Often called cUnJcers. 



"■ Scar, Sec, past participle of sciran, A.-S., to cut, to divide, 

 to separate." H. Tooke. 



^' SMr, rupes, hence slccer och klippor, scars and rocks, are 

 often synonymous ; uf skcer, rocks cut off from the land, and sur- 

 rounded by the sea. There are traces of this our word in most 

 of the ancient and modern languages, for example, in Gr. crKvpos, 

 salebras, rugged places, rocks, whence a-Kvpooy, to turn to stone, 

 and o-KvpwSr]?, rocky. Scyros, an island in the iEgean, is so 

 called because it is more than others TreTpwSiys (rocky), ^'px^l 

 (TKvpeia, a rocky domain, unprofitable. Al. scorr, scopulus. 

 Belg. ant. schorre, schore. Angi. scarr. Grail, escore, alta et 

 prserupta ripa. L.B. scAm«.- A.-B. carr, id. CB. carreg, la-pis 

 and esgair, jugum mentis. Hib. aisgeir. Hisp. sierra. Junius 

 thinks the root is scceran or sceran, scindere, to cut off, as rupes 

 a rumpendo ; as from Uippa, secare, to cut hlippa, a rock ; also 

 aKpoTofios, which Hesychius translates rupem abscissam; and 

 A.-S. scoren clif, rupes abrupta. II. Littus, ora maritima. 

 Skdrkarl, one who inhabits seaside places" Ihre. 



Examples : — 



Brock Scar — badger's scar. 



Cronkley Scar — scar of the lea of the hill. " Cronk, pi. crink, 

 chrink, and struink, a mountain, hill, mound, occurs frequently 

 in the Isle of Man." Jenki'nson's Guide to I. of Man. See 

 Ceonkley. 



Crosthwaite Scars — s. of the clearing of the cross. 



East Skears — east scars. Grey Scar — ^from colour. 



High. Skears — high scars. 



Holwick Scars — s. of the low-lying village. 



Scarbeck — b. with scarry banks. Scar end. 



Scargill — g. of the scar. 



