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 my grandfather's skean dhu," he said: "I mend my pens with it, you know!
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George
I threw my skean away before I came here.
From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Irish, a vagabond; shillelagh, Irish, a cudgel; skain, skean, Sc.,
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
