skerry
- noun
- /ˈskɛri/
- UK
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islote
- As the boat approached, we could see skerries scattered across the crystal-clear water.
Examples
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Her experience has not given her the ability to break with her old life, and her attempt to go ashore fails because she finds a skerry, not a continent.
Academic text (2000) -
We spotted a group of seals lounging on a small skerry near the coast.
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I slid off the skerry.
Academic text (2000) -
For a short while, I got to go ashore on a skerry, but—
Academic text (2000) -
During the rest of the summer, when the menfolk were around and the weather was fair, there might be a picnic out to one of the larger skerries.
Fiction book (1992) -
They watched the red midnight sun reflected in the shimmering water between the shore and the nearest skerries.
Fiction book (1992) -
Latino workers in Los Angeles, according to Peter Skerry of the Brookings Institution, characteristically use carpools to get to work, whereas blacks do not.
Academic text (1996) -
Frances E. Aboud and Shelag A. Skerry, "The Development of Ethnic Attitudes: A Critical Review," Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 15 (1984): 331.
Academic text (2009) -
The adventurous team planned to explore the hidden skerries during their trip along the coastline.
Synonyms
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1.0
A piece of land completely surrounded by water smaller than a continent
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2.0
A long narrow area of rock or coral near the sea surface
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Etymology
The word skerry comes from an old Norse word sker, meaning 'rock in the sea'. So think of a small hard rock sticking up out of the water — that is why a skerry means a tiny rocky island or reef.