skerrow

Updated: July 15, 2025

The clear metallic sound of the "strake" or sharpening strop, covered with pure white Loch Skerrow sand set in grease, which scythemen universally use in Galloway, cut through the slumberous hum of the noonday air like the blade itself through the grass.

S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett - The Lilac Sunbonnet