Wiktionary
n. 1 (context slang US New York English) a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway. 2 (context slang US New York English) (informal police jargon) A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler. (Compare scumbag.) Popularized on the American TV police drama ''NYPD Blue''. vb. (context slang English) To fall off or fall over
Wikipedia
SkELL is an abbreviation of Sketch Engine for Language Learning. It is a web interface for English language learning. The main purpose is to help students and teachers of English language. SkELL has its own corpus that was gathered so that contained texts covering everyday, standard, formal, and professional English language. In the corpus, there are a total of more than 60 million sentences and more than one billion words.
The SkELL interface provides features such as simple search showing words in context, but the maximum of displayed lines ( concordances, in fact) is 40. However, the frequency of searched query is located below the search box and expressed with the number hits per million. The second function is word sketch which enables showing collocates for a given word or words. The last one is named as similar words. It visualises similar words to searched word in a word cloud.
Since 2015, the tool has been available also for Russian language.
Usage examples of "skell".
Narasan thought that might be just a little light, but Skell seemed to think it was all he really wanted.
There had never been any doubt that Skell and Torl would grow up to be sailors, and their childhood was a time of impatience and yearning.
Any time that a task was difficult or unpleasant, Dalto automatically called for Skell and Torl.
So it was that Skell, Torl, and Sorgan learned the rudiments of land warfare.
She was forever changing, and, like every other Maag who chose a life at sea, Skell came to love her.
Skell and Sorgan had settled their differences by then, and Skell actually missed his cousin.
He was also a very good judge of character, and it was at his suggestion that Skell chose Baldar Club-Foot as second mate.
Kormo even came close to the truth, cousin Sorgan had just struck gold, and Skell thought it might be the polite thing to help his kinsman with the counting.
Red-Beard came very close to destroying the pose that Skell had spent years establishing.
Every time Red-Beard opened his mouth, Skell had to steel himself to avoid laughing out loud.
Kweta to the Land of Dhrall took quite a bit longer than Skell had thought it might.
Evidently the sea spreading out from the east coast of the Land of Maag was much larger than Skell had ever imagined.
Maag sailors in search of gold or entertainment began sprouting arrows, and Skell was obliged to come down on the offenders - hard.
The natives had hinted around the edges of some very unlikely explanations, but Skell had been fairly sure that Lady Zelana had been at the bottom of it.
There was no getting around the fact that this was beautiful country, but Skell still preferred the open sea.