skean
Example Sentences
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He described the defeat as "the night of long skean dhus".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2015
Last week at 98 he was the oldest Highland chieftain, with tasseled sporran and a jeweled skean dhus dirk in his stocking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Irish, a vagabond; shillelagh, Irish, a cudgel; skain, skean, Sc.,
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
It was very quiet, until Rakhal added, in a gentle and curiously moderate voice, "Do you still carry a skean, Race?"
From The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
I had my skean handy, but I had a hunch this wasn't anything I could settle with a skean.
From The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
