skeat

IPA: skˈit

Root Word: Skeat

Examples of "skeat" in Sentences

You need read what Skeat wrote about the codex.
He was the grandson of noted philologist Walter William Skeat.
Skeat and Thomas later visit the army commander, the Earl of Northampton.
About two the next morning, the yawl, which had been left upon the shoal, returned, with three turtles and a large skeat.
In some cases, Skeat's irritation stemmed from a reader's failure either to read correspondence that had been published decades earlier or to be intimately familiar with every last syllable of Skeat's seven volume work on Chaucer.
I think this clears up any dispute about the source of the pseudonym (which often appeared on book jackets alongside his true name), and I pause to note that Lucien Wattleskeat is a poor register of Saki’s generally brilliant and somewhat Wildean ability to devise memorable names.