skerry

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For years I coloured your world in hues you didn't recognise; never your island, always your skerry – "unable to see the romance of the thing for the thing itself".

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2010

Thereupon Lief said to Thorvald, "If it be thy will, brother, thou mayest go to Wineland with my ship; but I wish the ship first to fetch the wood which Thori had upon the skerry."

From Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

North of us are two small islets and a small rock or skerry.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof

As the boat approached nearer Fred remarked, "That is a mere lad, but there is some one else lying on the skerry."

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston

"This is the scheer," said our captain, using a word which recalled to my mind, at once, the Swedish skär, and the English skerry, used alike to denote a coast-group of rocky islets.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various