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

The other sop resorted to by these fellows is the middogue, or skean, and, as they contrive to manage its application, it is the surer of the two.

From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

It is the only thing I could get, but I sharpened it myself; it has an edge like a skean.'

From The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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