Definition of Skeanes

1. skeane [n] - See also: skeane

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeanes

skating rink
skatings
skatol
skatole
skatoles
skatols
skatoxyl
skats
skatt
skatts
skaws
skayles
skaz
skean
skeane
skeanes (current term)
skeans
skear
skeared
skearier
skeariest
skearing
skears
skeary
sked
skedaddle
skedaddled
skedaddler
skedaddlers
skedaddles

Literary usage of Skeanes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Chorographical Description of West Or H-Iar Connaught: Written A.D. 1684 by Roderic O'Flaherty (1846)
"... would with skeanes, wherewith gen-rath they were armed, come to the English women. i»i say, with their skeanes presented, • Yu jade-s, or doggs, ..."

2. A Chorographical Description of West Or H-Iar Connaught: Written A.D. 1684 by Roderic O'Flaherty (1846)
"... according to their powers, exceeded the men, insomuch as their very frie, or young children, would with skeanes, wherewith generally they were armed, ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1820)
"Goe bid the boyes bring wine and odours hither, [iher, And fragrant bods of roses that soone wi- While our estates, and yeeres, and blacke threed-skeanes Of ..."

4. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... skeanes, Hammers, and Nailes) directly to the battery, and as soone as our men mounted upon the same, the enemies fled through the water to the Towne. ..."

5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... skeanes, Hammers, and Nailes) directly to the battery, and as soone as our men mounted upon the same, the enemies fled through the water to the Towne. ..."

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