Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small rocky reef or island.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rocky isle; an insulated rock; a reef.
- noun A loose angular fragment of rock; rubble; slither; ratchel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A rocky isle; an insulated rock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In a cleft on the skerry was a patch of green grass.
Weird Tales from Northern Seas Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870
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Stretched along the banks of the Aura, where it flows into the skerry-strewn Gulf of Bothnia in south-west Finland, Turku combines a reputation for cutting-edge creativity with the historic pride of an important medieval city.
Turku: European Capital of Culture 2011 Norman Miller 2010
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Oar owt ob respekt ob teh beeg skerry Kraykin, shud wi nawt eet feeshies tudae?
KRAKEN - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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April 20, 2010 at 3:01 pm ai fawtso it wz a berry skerry Halolween joak wen dat mccane man sed she wuz pratnur fur lexsun
‘Oh no I forgot my lines!’ - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Iz glad Iz nawt libbin in teh Oz-trailer…I heers teh spiders bery skerry downunders…
Yu saw it - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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July 6, 2009 at 9:19 am to annipuss: yesh, i merember those uglee liddel avatarts. it made most peeps looks angree and /or skerry. dem peeps at WP aer teh weerd. yup.
I haz a mad. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Teh skin feel berry soft an smooth, an teh musculs yu can feeling unner it be almost skerry eksept tehy be berry frenlee snakes.
It’s not what it looks like! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Was vairy skerry as it wentid on fore baot a minnit.
Foreign Exchange Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Grate ohaiku, catena – opened up large skerry imij in mai hed!
Iz ok. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Iz just a mask… lukk, ai paints it pink an puts glitters awn it… nawt so skerry nao, ryte?
Hyperventilation Kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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