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Definition of Skean
1. n. A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.]
Definition of Skean
1. Noun. (obsolete form of skein) ¹
2. Noun. A double-edged, leafshaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skean
1. a type of dagger [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skean
Literary usage of Skean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland: With Sketches of by Wilde (1902)
"SHEELA-NA-skean. THEBE is an old ruin of a farmhouse in the County Cork, near
Fermoy, that has an evil reputation, and no one would build it up or inhabit ..."
2. Travels in Lands Beyond the Sea: Beauty and Glory of Western Europe ... Pen by Charles Dorrance Linskill (1888)
"skean DHUS AND SPORRANS A GREAT CITY DRESSED IN GRAY STONE GRASS MARKET—ST.
MARGARET'S CHAPEL—MON'S MEG—STONE CANNON-BALLS CROWN JEWELS QUEEN MARY'S ..."
3. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1894)
"though, perhaps, incorrectly, spelt skean) seems to have died out in Ireland
during the " later middle ages." This term is rather indefinite, and somewhat ..."
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