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Meanings of skerry in English

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Usage of skerry in English
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He reached the skerry as dusk fell without having found an answer.
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They came here in rowing boats, the skerry received them in admiration.
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They suddenly appeared from behind the skerry, as if out of nowhere.
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On a rocky skerry like Halsskär, with the widow of a fisherman.
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The barren skerry was a poor and destitute being, devoid of desires.
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But why a skerry at the edge of the open sea?
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He felt an increasing need to go back to the skerry.
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He did not want to go with her, he stayed on the skerry.
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But she reached here, and she hid herself on the skerry.
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But it misses its mice, there aren't any on this skerry.
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You can do what you like with all the things on the skerry.
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It's eating her up, that inhospitable skerry is scraping her to the bone.'
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They now went the same way back, and again ascended up to the skerry.
Weird Tales from Northern Seas
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He erased it from the map, let the skerry sink down to the seabed.
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Whatever was pinkish of it was now hidden by a skerry of weedy boulders.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
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I think this is the only skerry out here where there aren't any ants.
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