What is "skeat"

Usage examples of "skeat".

Will Skeat how to unlock the town, and Skeat listened because the Yorkshireman had learned to trust Thomas of Hookton.

Skeat had been unwill- ing to recruit Thomas when they first met by the gaol in Dorchester where Skeat was testing a score of thieves and murderers to see how well they could shoot a bow.

At first Skeat thought Thomas of Hookton was little more than another wild fool looking for adven- ture, a clever fool, to be sure, but Thomas had taken to the life of an archer in Brittany with alacrity.

Thomas thrived on the life, and Skeat had learned the lad was clever, certainly clever enough to know better than to fall asleep one night when he should have been standing guard and, for that offence Skeat had thumped the daylights out of him.

Will Skeat saw that the boy was still grinning, and six months later he made Thomas into a vintenar, which meant he was in charge of twenty other archers.

King, but William Bohun happily drank with men like Skeat and Tote- sham, ate with them, spoke English with them, hunted with them and trusted them, and Sir Simon felt excluded from that friendship.

Richard Totesham, seated on a milking stool next to Will Skeat, growled at Thomas.

Will Skeat edged down the bank where a dozen men were stack- ing the hurdles.

Will Skeat said, barely bothering to disguise his own scorn, wants a word with thee.

Sir Simon ignored Skeat and spoke to Thomas, is for you to take your men ahead of mine into the town itself.

More and more men were coming through the broken stakes now as Will Skeat sent them down the riverbank rather than wait for the wall to be captured.

He and Will Skeat went back into the town to find the Earl of Northampton sitting in state.

Thomas had to translate for Will Skeat, who nodded, for he had already heard the tale.

The Earl gave an irritated glance at Skeat and Thomas, then looked back to Sir Simon.

He stared at Sir Simon as he spoke, then looked at Will Skeat, and changed to English.