Crossword clues for skean
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skean \Skean\, n. [Ir sgian; akin to Gael. sgian, W. ysgien a
large knife, a scimiter.]
A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the
Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.] ``His skean, or
pistol.''
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (obsolete form of skein English) 2 A double-edged, leaf-shaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
Usage examples of "skean".
And I set aside childhood and practiced as best I could and as best my kyn would allow me with claidheammor and skean and carbine, though it was seldom indeed I could cozen a clannsman into allowing me to use his firearm.
I had come to settle one feud, not involve myself in another, but even while these lightning thoughts flickered in my mind, I had whipped out my skean and I was surprised at the shrillness of my own voice.
Thin poniards and wider daggers, dirks, stilettos, one saber, one scimitar, kukris and katars from India, a skean dhu from Scotland, a short-handled halberd, bayonets, falchions, bowies, yataghans.
Chloe didn't have to glance down to know what he'd just revealed: the skean dhu she'd wrapped earlier in a soft piece of plaid she'd found, then tucked beneath the pillow so she might cut herself free later.
The candle flickered in his hand, the smoke curled around the outline of his wavy locks, and I held the little skean dhu in my fist ready to defend my honor.
Indeed, the Scottish skean dhu is said to be carried in the stocking so that it may be reached as its owner kneels in supplication.