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

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

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

Angus, in short, although they had made him a clergyman, would, it was believed by those who knew him, have carried his skean dhu with him to the pulpit.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

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)