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Other examples include “snaw” and “sneesl”, meaning to begin to rain or snow, and “skelf”, a large snowflake.

"What brings ye frae Peebles, man?" continued the warder, "in sic a night as this, when a witch wouldna venture on the Skelf Hill, far less owre North Berwick Law."

Having a mouth which emits sounds like those made in planing. sicker, certain. siver, sewer. skail, skayl, disperse. skelf, shelf. skirr, scour. sklinter, v. splinter. skreigh, cry. sleekit, deceitful. slocken, slake. smeddam, spirit. sneck, bolt. snell, keen.

Then Sam he loups to the dresser-shelf— “I daur ye wallop my leddy’s delf; I daur ye break but a single skelf Frae her cheeny bowl, my man!”

It wasna an ill w'y to beery fowk, nor an ill place to gang til, for they aye biggit up the skelf, ye ken.