Definition of Skerries

1. Noun. (plural of skerry) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Skerries

1. skerry [n] - See also: skerry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skerries

skepticist
skepticize
skepticized
skepticizes
skepticizing
skeptick
skeptics
skeptimist
skeptimistic
skeptimists
skeptopathy
sker
skerred
skerricks
skerries (current term)
skerring
skerry
skers
sket
sketch
sketch block
sketch map
sketch pad
sketch pads
sketchable
sketchbook
sketchbooks
sketched
sketcher

Literary usage of Skerries

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

1. The History of Drogheda: With Its Environs, and an Introductory Memoir of by John D'Alton (1844)
"At the point of intersection before alluded to, a station house is to be erected for the accommodation of the town and neighbourhood of skerries. ..."

2. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1882)
"(Glasg. 1880). Valuation (1882) £4571. Bound skerries, a group of islets, with one inhabited house, in Nesting parish, Shetland. ..."

3. History of America Before Columbus: According to Documents and Approved Authors by Peter De Roo (1900)
"... or Gunn- bjorn's skerries,i situated close by the Greenland coast, at forty-two degrees east of Washington and sixty- five degrees and twenty minutes of ..."

4. The Sea and Its Living Wonders by Georg Hartwig (1892)
"The Antro di Nettuno.~The Cave of Hunga—Legend of its Discovery.—Marine Fountains.—The skerries. ..."

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