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Scale. Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. I.
Scale. v. to spread, as manure, gravel, or other loose material. Marshall’s Rural Economy (E. Yorkshire) 1788
Scaling (Yks.) spreading manure, &c; (Som.), extracting the fibre from hemp; (Norf.), shallow ploughing. Morton’s Cyclopedia of Agriculture (1863)
Scale (ske-hl) v.a. & v.n. to scatter (infrequent as neuter). Robinson’s Mid-Yorkshire Glossary (1878)
Scal, Scale, loose ground about a mine. Miss Courtney’s West Cornwall Glossary
*Scale, to poke the fire. Poole’s Staffordshire Glossary (1880)
Scaled. scattered. “the peatstacks in Faulshaw, which...today er scal’d oer the marsh of Milnthrop.” “A Bran new Work” (Kendal, 1785)
*Arblaster of Clare {1}, who is working with me, a Shrewsbury & Birmingham man, says that to “scale” a fire means to remove the ashes from the front bars.
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{1} Probably Frank Arblaster, who was at Clare College between 1885 and 1888.