SKARA
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að, [skör], to jut out; þá skaraði ofan léinn, Korm. 38; skara fram úr, to stand out, Lat. eminere; fram-úr-skarandi, eminent.
2. to poke the fire; en þeirri ösku sköruðu þeir allri út, they raked the ashes out, Eb. 316; skara eld, to poke the fire, Fas. ii. 109; skara að eldinum, id. (skörungr, a poker); hann skaraði til spjót-skaptinu, he poked with the spear-pole, 558; hann skaraði þá upp undir fótborðit, Gísl. 31.
II. [Shetl. to skare; Dan. skarre], as a shipwright’s term, to clinch the planks of a boat, so that the lower edge of every plank overlaps the upper edge of the plank below it (hence skar-súð, clinch-work).
2. skarað skjöldum, a row of shields (formed like a ‘wall of shields’), Al. 47:—chiefly used of ships, whose gunwale was lined with shields from stem to stern, var skarat skjöldum milli stafna, Grett. 97, Ld. 68; skipin vóru sköruð skjöldum á bæði borð, Fms. i. 100.