skavie

Same as shavie. skaw (ska), n. [Also scaw; Icel. skag i, a low cape or ne , A child might travel with a purse of gold from Sumhim. burgh-head to the Scaw of Unst, and no soul would injure Scott , Pirate, viii. IMG:content-1180.png:[blocks in formation] Skeans. From specimens in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. of bronze, double-edged, and more or le leaf shaped, and thus distinguished from the different forms of the seax, or broad-backed knife. Duryng this siege arrived at Harflew the Lord of Kylmaine in Ireland, with a band of xvj. hundreth Iryshmen, armed in mayle with dartes and skaynes , after the maner of their countrey. Hall , Henry V., f. 28. ( Hall i well .) The fraudulent Saxons under their long Ca ocks had short Skeynes hidden, with which, upon a Watchword given, they set upon the Britains, and of their unarm'd Nobility slew three, some say five hundred. Baker , Chronicles, p. 4.