Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeanes
Literary usage of Skeanes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Chorographical Description of West Or H-Iar Connaught: Written A.D. 1684 by Roderic O'Flaherty (1846)
"... would with skeanes, wherewith gen-rath they were armed, come to the English
women. i»i say, with their skeanes presented, • Yu jade-s, or doggs, ..."
2. A Chorographical Description of West Or H-Iar Connaught: Written A.D. 1684 by Roderic O'Flaherty (1846)
"... according to their powers, exceeded the men, insomuch as their very frie, or
young children, would with skeanes, wherewith generally they were armed, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1820)
"Goe bid the boyes bring wine and odours hither, [iher, And fragrant bods of roses
that soone wi- While our estates, and yeeres, and blacke threed-skeanes Of ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... skeanes, Hammers, and Nailes) directly to the battery, and as soone as our
men mounted upon the same, the enemies fled through the water to the Towne. ..."
5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... skeanes, Hammers, and Nailes) directly to the battery, and as soone as our
men mounted upon the same, the enemies fled through the water to the Towne. ..."
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