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 had my skean handy, but I had a hunch this wasn't anything I could settle with a skean.

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

One guard pushed my skean back into its clasp.

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

It is my grandfather's skean dhu," he said: "I mend my pens with it, you know!

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George