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• A steep river bank.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

• In Scot, a bare and broken place on the side of a hill or mountain; a naked detached rock; in bot., a mark upon a stem or branch seen after the fall of a leaf, or upon a seed after the separation of its stem.

• See under scar.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.