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sker·ry
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noun,
plural
sker·ries.
Chiefly Scot.
1.
a small, rocky island.
2.
a coastline with a series of such islands offshore.
Origin:
1605–15;
Shetland dial.
skerri
a rock in the sea <
Old Norse
sker
(genitive plural
skerja
) rock or reef (in the sea).
See
scar
2
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skerry
(ˈskɛrɪ)
—
n
,
pl
-ries
1.
a small rocky island
2.
a reef
[C17: Orkney dialect, from Old Norse
sker
scar
²]
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"I am a man upo the lan,
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