English Explanatory Dictionary

scriddan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of landslide in which rain loosens the side of a mountain or hill and rocks slide down.

Word forms

scriddan scriddans scridan

Etymology

A relation to Old Norse skriða (“landslide, scree”) or an unattested Old English cognate thereof, *scridan (plural of *scride), has been suggested, as has derivation from a Gaelic word sgriodan, itself perhaps from Norse. Compare scree.

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