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Definition of Skerries
1. skerry [n] - See also: skerry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skerries
Literary usage of Skerries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Drogheda: With Its Environs, and an Introductory Memoir of by John D'Alton (1844)
"At the point of intersection before alluded to, a station house is to be erected
for the accommodation of the town and neighbourhood of skerries. ..."
2. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1882)
"(Glasg. 1880). Valuation (1882) £4571. Bound skerries, a group of islets, with
one inhabited house, in Nesting parish, Shetland. ..."
3. History of America Before Columbus: According to Documents and Approved Authors by Peter De Roo (1900)
"... or Gunn- bjorn's skerries,i situated close by the Greenland coast, at forty-two
degrees east of Washington and sixty- five degrees and twenty minutes of ..."
4. The Sea and Its Living Wonders by Georg Hartwig (1892)
"The Antro di Nettuno.~The Cave of Hunga—Legend of its Discovery.—Marine Fountains.—The
skerries. ..."
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