Sc. dial. [var. of TUSKAR, prob. after Gael. tairisgil.] A kind of spade for cutting peat.
1812. J. Henderson, Agric. Surv. Caithn., xv. 234. When the peat-moss is not more than from one to two feet deep, the peat is cut perpendicularly, by a spade, called a turskill.
