Lexicographical Neighbors of Skees
Literary usage of Skees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Land of the Long Night by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1899)
"IN the morning Joseff, the owner of the farm, said to me: " Paulus, before you
go further on your journey you must learn to go on skees; otherwise you will ..."
2. Our Country: West (1897)
"He accepted the invitation ; he had been accustomed to travel on skees in ...
The skees used by the party were made of birch, and were eight feet long, ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1903)
"Traveling uphill on skees is hard work. One has to " tack " upward, ... It is,
of course, in speeding downhill that the skees are at their best. ..."
4. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"We have made quite a number of skees in the course of the winter, and after a
little practice the Eskimos seemed to prefer these to their snowshoes, ..."
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