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

From his belt depended some instruments, with the use of which Macpherson was entirely unacquainted; together with a skean dhu of exquisite and uncommon workmanship.

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

A Sassenach chief may be bonily built, He may purchase a sporran, a bonnet, and kilt; Stick a skean in his hose—wear an acre of stripes— But he cannot assume an affection for pipes.

From The Best Nonsense Verses by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam