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Definition of 'skerry'Noun
( skerries)
A small rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms.
* 1805 , George Barry, History of the Orkney Islands , I:
- The Seal (phoca vitulina'', Lin. Syft.) which is here generally known by the name of ''selchy , is very common on most of our low shores, but particularly on those of the small holms and remote skerries , where it is frequently seen reposing and basking in the sun [...].
* 1997 , Bernard Scudder, translating ‘Egil's Saga’, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, p. 46:
- Grim the Halogalander's crew sailed along Borgarfjord beyond the skerries , then cast anchor until the storm died down and the weather brightened up.
* 2000 , Jeremy Gaskell, Who Killed the Great Auk? , Oxford 2000, p. 20:
- The three men proceeded, with a little difficulty, to scale the skerry , finding Gannets and Guillemots on the upper reaches.
Similar to 'skerry'sorry, sherry, scary, surrey, scurry, screwy, showery, sweary, saury, sorrowy, shory, serry, scarry, scarey, squiry, skurry, scray, surry
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