Noun

*{{quote-book, year=1570, author=Roger Ascham, title=The Schoolmaster, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=In woode and stone, not the softest, but hardest, be alwaies aptest, for portrature, both fairest for pleasure, and most durable for proffit. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1613, author=Gervase Markham, title=The English Husbandman, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The second member or part of the Plough, is called the skeath, and is a peece of woode of two foote and a halfe in length, and of eight inches in breadth, and two inches in thicknesse: it is driuen extreamly hard into the Plough-beame, slopewise, so that ioyned they present this figure. }}