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

During their combat, however, some of Macpherson’s gillies approached the spot; and Cameron perceived them nearing him with kindling eyes, and holding in their impatient hands the skean dhu half unsheathed.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Leighton, Alexander

I edged backward, my own hand racing up for a skean I hadn't carried in six years, and fronted them squarely, hoping I could face down the prospect of a roughhouse.

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

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)