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Definition of Skeans
1. skean [n] - See also: skean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeans
Literary usage of Skeans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott (1828)
"each other with knives and skeans, in their own barbarous fashion ? Their habits,
like our own, refer all disputed rights and claims to the decision of ..."
2. Of Toronto the Good, a Social Study: The Queen City of Canada as it is by Christopher St. George Clark (1898)
"The following case is one where the defendant had this courage, and received the
just judgment of the court: The case of young skeans against Inspector ..."
3. The Bloody Bridge: And Other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 by Thomas Fitzpatrick (1903)
"Even the little Irish toddlers, armed with skeans of lath, ... The skeans that
seemed so terrible were, we may be sure, as dangerous as lath and paste-board ..."
4. The Bloody Bridge: And Other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 by Thomas Fitzpatrick (1903)
"Even the little Irish toddlers, armed with skeans of lath, ... The skeans that
seemed so terrible were, we may be sure, as dangerous as lath and paste-board ..."
5. Ireland in the Seventeenth Century: Or, The Irish Massacres of 1641-2, Their by Mary [Agnes] Hickson (1884)
"... a short space of time made a multitude of skeans, whereby he conceived that
some sudden mischief and insurrection would then ere long ensue, ..."
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