Crossword-Solution: SKERRIES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Skerries | pl. | of Skerry |
We have 1 clue for the answer “SKERRIES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Rocky islands off Scotland's coast. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
Hint 2 anagram
VETN
Hint 3 another clue
Discharge
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Sentences with SKERRIES (5)
And indeed, for a man who has been much tumbled round Orcadian skerries, what scene could be more agreeable to witness? On such a day, the valley wears a surprising air of festival.
King Harald heard that the vikings, who were in the West sea in winter, plundered far and wide in the middle part of Norway; and therefore every summer he made an expedition to search the isles and out-skerries (1) on the coast.
When he got east to the skerries of East Gautland, he ran in and landed, and made a great blood-sacrifice.
Sion Tudor wrote an englyn on the Skerries whirlpool in the Menai; but it was Little Bob who wrote the stanza in which the future bridge over the Menai is hinted at.” “You are right,” said I, “you are right.
But for the most part the reefs and skerries of ruins, the wreckage of suburban villas, stood among their streets and roads, queer islands amidst the levelled expanses of green and brown, abandoned indeed by the inhabitants years since, but too substantial, it seemed’, to be cleared out of the way of the wholesale horticultural mechanisms of the time.
Quotes with SKERRIES (1)
Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock bec…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1957).