skenes

Britain, the guests used their knives called skenes, or the large poniards named dirks, without troubling themselves by the reflection that they might occasionally have served different or more fatal purposes.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

Britain, the guests used their knives called skenes, or the large poniards named dirks, without troubling themselves by the reflection that they might occasionally have served different or more fatal purposes.

The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

Gael fight with sword and lance, as becomes belted knights, or with sandbags, like the crestless churls of England, or butcher each other with knives and skenes, in their own barbarous fashion?

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

The poor little lad (so he says) leaps up to cover his master with his naked body, gets three or four stabs of skenes, and so falls for dead; with his master and Captain Carter, who were dead indeed — God reward them!

Westward Ho! 2007

“Orson Pinnit was a stout soldier before he was so mangled by the skenes of the Irish clan MacDonough; and I trust your Grace will be, as you always have been, good mistress to your good and trusty servants.”

Kenilworth 2004

Nb. 18: 6 leitourgein tas leitourgias tes skenes tou marturiou.

A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

Ex. 33: 8, 34: 34 henika d 'an eiseporeueto Moses, 40: 30 henika d' an anebe apo tes skenes he nephele.

A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

Hacked, harried, and mangled of axes and skenes, three thousand naked and dead

Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

Devonshire and Cornish creeks, Huguenots from Rochelle; Irish kernes with long skenes, 'desperate, unruly persons with no kind of mercy.'

English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 James Anthony Froude 1856

The poor little lad (so he says) leaps up to cover his master with his naked body, gets three or four stabs of skenes, and so falls for dead; with his master and Captain

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847