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
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
It seemed empty, except for a few sodden derelicts sprawled in doorways—the Street of the Six Shepherds is a filthy slum—but I made sure my skean was loose.
From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
