Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A promontory.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a cape on the northernmost tip of Jutland between the Skagerrak and the Kattegatt

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Examples

  • The low headland was called the Skaw and it showed dull and misty in the gray twilight.

    Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

  • [Footnote 9: The Skaw is the most northerly point of Denmark.] "And as to catch the gale

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Thank you, Skaw and Memo, you've both been more or less my saving grace this week.

    terrarose Diary Entry terrarose 2007

  • Skaw, stop worrying so much about not being able to help me.

    terrarose Diary Entry terrarose 2007

  • It's sad you call your own friends stalkers ... when you like them yourself, and dont say you dont ... all we got when Ezi was here was "I miss Skaw".

    terrarose Diary Entry terrarose 2005

  • And a lot, Skaw, Ezi, you know them IRL now just like you know me and Stanimal IRL.

    terrarose Diary Entry terrarose 2005

  • Between fights with Dakko and Skaw in the LS, it was simply the worst night of my life.

    terrarose Diary Entry terrarose 2005

  • Skaw helped me with keys and such, and I got some Exoray Mold.

    terrarose Diary Entry terrarose 2004

  • At evening the schooner doubled the Skaw at the northern point of Denmark, in the night passed the Skager Rack, skirted Norway by

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • The works of Jens Jacobsen and Holger Drachmann contributed to literature, while the “Skagen School” of Danish painters, so called because they gathered on the Skaw in the 1870s, followed the style of realism in art.

    1871 2001

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