DCHP-1 Online
skirtings Obs. 
n. pl. See quote.
See also: road allowance (def. 1)
- 1849 . . . having no money to buy land, they turned up the soil on the cleared sides of the roads, called the skirtings, among the stumps, there they sowed corn and planted potatoes.
- 1849 . . . having no money to buy land, they turned up the soil on the cleared sides of the roads, called the skirtings, among the stumps, there they sowed corn and planted potatoes.