Skaw
Americannoun
noun
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Bells will be sounded in Britain's northernmost inhabited house in Skaw, the Shetland Isles, and the UK's most westerly church in Tresco, The Scilly Isles.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2012
On the 19th of March the fleet was collected off the northern point of Denmark, known as the Skaw.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
James Skaw turned the mules so that she might watch the explosion.
From Police!!! by Henry Hutt
Some of his best poems are about the Skaw fishermen, and later in life he settled down among them, dying at Skagen in 1907.
From Denmark by M. Pearson Thomson
In their slowly spreading grins I saw they agreed with me that somebody, signing himself James Skaw, was still trying to hoax the Great Zoölogical Society of Bronx Park.
From Police!!! by Henry Hutt
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