释义 |
skeo Orkney and Shetland dial.|skjoː| Also 9 skio, skoe. [a. Norw. skjaa a shed.] (See quot. a 1688.)
1602in J. Mill Diary (S.H.S.) 181 Sawndie Smyth awner of the skeo. a1688Wallace Orkney (1693) 93 Skeos, little houses built of dry stones without any Morter, that the wind may have free passage through them, in which they dry their fishes and fleshes. 1795J. Mill Diary (S.H.S.) 101 [She] murdered the child and concealed the body in a skeo. 1821Scott Pirate xi, He would substitute better houses for the skeoes. Ibid. xxix, A deserted Skio, or fisherman's hut. 1897Shetl. News 3 July (E.D.D.), The old skoes for preserving meat or vivda in, existed to my time. Comb.1822Hibbert Descr. Shetl. Isl. (1891) 259 The tables labouring..under the weight of skeo-dried vivda. |