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 Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

I thrust myself between them and put my hand on the skean again.

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

It is the only thing I could get, but I sharpened it myself; it has an edge like a skean.'

From The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan