Crossword clues for skerry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"isolated rock in the sea," 1610s, from Old Norse sker, related to skera "to cut off" (see shear (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. A small rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms.
Wikipedia
A skerry is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation; it may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low sea stack.
The term skerry is derived from the Old Norse sker, which means a rock in the sea. The Old Norse term sker was brought into the English language via the Scots language word spelled skerrie or skerry. It is a cognate of the Scandinavian languages' words for skerry – Icelandic, , , , , found also in , , , , and (shkhery)''. In Scottish Gaelic, it appears as sgeir, e.g. Sula Sgeir, in Irish as sceir, in Welsh as sgeri, and in Manx as skeyr.
A skerry is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation.
Skerry, skerries, or The Skerries may also refer to:
Usage examples of "skerry".
Winloki spied Skerry striding in her direction, his dark hair bristling and his green cloak flapping behind him.
Steering in among the skerries Olaf made a landing on the island of Moster, in the shire of Hordaland.
There are more reefs and skerries and underwater rocks and overfalls and whirlpools and tidal races in twenty miles there than in the whole of the rest of Scotland.
And now all the western seaboard of Demonland lay clear to view, stretching fifty miles and more from Northhouse Skerries past the Drakeholms and the low downs of Kestawick and Byland, beyond which tower the mountains of the Scarf, past the jagged sky-line of the Thornbacks and the far Neverdale peaks overhanging the wooded shores of Onwardlithe and Lower Tivarandardale, to the extreme southern headland, filmy-pale in the distance, where the great range of Rimon Armon plunges its last wild bastion in the sea.
Skerry asked with a wary look, as he closed the gate of the stall that housed dapple-grey Grani and stepped out into the aisle.
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.