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 was very quiet, until Rakhal added, in a gentle and curiously moderate voice, "Do you still carry a skean, Race?"

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

I threw my skean away before I came here.

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer