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Skerry \Sker"ry\, n.; pl. Skerries. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. sker, Sw. sk["a]r, Dan. ski?r. Cf. Scar a bank.] A rocky isle; an insulated rock. [Scot.]
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n. (plural of skerry English)
Usage examples of "skerries".
And even then they may decide to keep outside the line of the skerries, as they do when they're not hot on the trail of the grind.
If the grain crop failed—Echegorgun thought it was bound to fail three years in ten—then the Thin Ones started to come out and hunt the skerries in desperation.
He can hear the footfalls of skerries going through the detachment's rations.
A single mobile crane swung its gantry lazily against the leaden dullness of the sky, and beyond the quay skerries barred the way into the Sound of Harris with here and there a light mounted on iron legs to mark the channel through the rocks.
The westerly swell, broken on the skerries of Shoay Sgeir that jutted south from Eileann nan Shoay, caused only a mild surge.
Cracknose Rock lay at the center of the Skerries, a fist of stone thrusting up defiantly out of the sea.
The gale that had scattered his fleet had encompassed a vast swath of the northern sea, according to his own observations as his ship had ridden out the gale and to the reports he had received as his loyal captains had straggled in to the Crackling Skerries afterward.
Cliffs and skerries had creamy surf boiling around them, and the hanging glens and rounded green heights were emerging from low-hanging clouds.
Then it flew off seaward with the limp body, heading toward some skerries that thrust darkly from the foaming breakers.
With nonchalant skill he zigzagged among the towering skerries at a perilously low altitude with the sigma off.
The rolling swell of the open ocean gave way to calmer waters between the two islands, glassy smooth where they reflected the bright sun, crystal clear in the shallows of a frowning cliff, dark skerries visible just beneath the surface.
From the map it might be any one of a dozen skerries under the shadow of Halmarsness.
The sea was calm for Norland waters but there was a snowy edging of surf to the skerries which told of a tide rip.
The seals will come near—the true seals, the animals that live on the skerries around the island.
He recounted how he had risen before dawn on the previous day—having not closed his eyes all night, for reasons he would not divulge—and walked to the beach to watch the sun rise across the skerries beyond Seacliffe Head.