Definition of Skeans

1. Noun. (plural of skean) ¹

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Definition of Skeans

1. skean [n] - See also: skean

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeans

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

Literary usage of Skeans

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

1. Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott (1828)
"each other with knives and skeans, in their own barbarous fashion ? Their habits, like our own, refer all disputed rights and claims to the decision of ..."

2. Of Toronto the Good, a Social Study: The Queen City of Canada as it is by Christopher St. George Clark (1898)
"The following case is one where the defendant had this courage, and received the just judgment of the court: The case of young skeans against Inspector ..."

3. The Bloody Bridge: And Other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 by Thomas Fitzpatrick (1903)
"Even the little Irish toddlers, armed with skeans of lath, ... The skeans that seemed so terrible were, we may be sure, as dangerous as lath and paste-board ..."

4. The Bloody Bridge: And Other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 by Thomas Fitzpatrick (1903)
"Even the little Irish toddlers, armed with skeans of lath, ... The skeans that seemed so terrible were, we may be sure, as dangerous as lath and paste-board ..."

5. Ireland in the Seventeenth Century: Or, The Irish Massacres of 1641-2, Their by Mary [Agnes] Hickson (1884)
"... a short space of time made a multitude of skeans, whereby he conceived that some sudden mischief and insurrection would then ere long ensue, ..."

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