Lexicographical Neighbors of Skyre
Literary usage of Skyre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch (1889)
"skyre THURSDAY.—Without attempting to determine etymologies, I venture the opinion
that the meanings of, and some of the various forms given to the prefix, ..."
2. The Life of St. Cuthbert in English Verse, C. A. D. 1450 by Joseph Thomas Fowler (1891)
"Maundy Thursday was called ' skyre Thursday ' in the North of ... In the South
of England 'skyre' took the form of ' shere,' whence arose a false etymology ..."
3. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1882)
"Its sudden and violent freshets have given rise to the local proverb of ' a skyre-
bum warning,' of which 'Scarborough warning' in Har- ..."
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