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Definition of Selkirk
1. Noun. Scottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (1676-1721).
Definition of Selkirk
1. Proper noun. A town in the Scottish Borders region. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selkirk
Literary usage of Selkirk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"The adventures of selkirk had been thrown into the air, in 1712, ... The particular
manner how Alexander selkirk lived four years and four months, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Broadly speaking, selkirk may be said to consist of the two entire valleys of
Ettrick and Yarrow and a section of the valley of Tweed, the first two eloping ..."
3. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"selkirk settlement in the North- rest—"In spite of its fine record in dealing with
... In 1811 ord selkirk, a Scotch nobleman, who had already 1803) founded ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"might be called the selkirk range. The selkirk system would thus include the ...
An objection to it is the chance for confusion in using "selkirk" to mean ..."
5. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"From Galashiels a short branch runs to (6 M.) selkirk, ... 509) by coaches running
in connection with tbe selkirk coaches (see p. 510). ..."
6. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Despite some apocryphal stories, there is nothing to show that Defoe knew any
thing of selkirk beyond what had been published by Rogers, Cooke, and Steele. ..."
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