Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old spelling of
skeel , skill.
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Examples
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At times when I tell people never to rever to me as “skele” they think I am not all right.
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A lot of people won't call a woman a 'bitch' but they'll call her a 'skele' or 'kokolette' even though both these terms affect the way you percieve women.
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And the gate shivered at that point, fell apart in jagged pieces as the rest of the skele - tons beat upon it.
Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964
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Ðurh alle ðesen we habbeð iseȝen ⁊ iherd swiðe maniȝe ȝeborȝen. ⁊ manie of alle ðesen inamde mihten forfaren for þi ðat hem trukede {120} _discrecio_. þat is scadwisnesse and skele.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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He started and began to shake from head to foot, for directly in front of him was the skele - ton, moving up and down in a jerky fashion and glowing with a dull fire.
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We're afraid he's going to do a burst during the skele where he would run; we call that the scramble drill, but we couldn't do that because of his inability to run.
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We're afraid he's going to do a burst during the skele where he would run; we call that the scramble drill, but we couldn't do that because of his inability to run.
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I thought that was a skele-ton in the closet that would never find the light of day.
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The Graveyard Boulevard, The Tremors, Psycho Charger and a few other bands will thrill convention goers with their skele-tunes.
Rebelscum.com 2008
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