Meaning of skean dhu | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of sgian dubh.

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Examples

“It strikes me that quite three-fourths of the shops of Inverness are devoted to the sale of articles of Highland costume. Their fronts are hidden by hangings of tartan cloth; the windows are decked with sporrans, dirks, cairngorm plaid-brooches, ram's head snuff[-]boxes, bullocks' horns and skean dhus.”

“The smith can take⟳ a hunk of metal and hammer⟳ it out to the desired shape⟳. He can see⟳ the result⟳ of every hammer⟳ stroke. He knows before the job is finished whether the skull cracker, the skean dhu or stingaree is going to serve⟳ its purpose in a private or public bickering, or merely is a piece of scrap to be hidden in the clinkers, cinders and junk pile back of the forge or under the bellows.”

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