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

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

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

One guard pushed my skean back into its clasp.

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer