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— Jake Nickell @skaw, co-founder of Threadless.com
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Except for the distant mournful skaw of a pterodon, it was just too damned quiet.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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The pterodon beat its leathery brown wings in slow motion, craning its claw-hammer head to skaw displeasure at the humming, hovering intruder in its domain.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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That notwithstanding his great merit as a driver of the charabanc, BINNS caused the vehicle to skid ski-skaw-skoo off the appointed way and go plunging into a ditch some four miles as the crow flies past the Bypass at Blister Lane.
Hooting Yard 2010
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andrew rosinski 1 month ago saw it skaw 1 month ago sweet vid bro. you the man. the skyline man.
Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! on Vimeo 2010
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_skaw_ for the elder-tree; _skaw-dower_, water-elder; _skaw-coo_, nightshade; _bannel_, broom; _skedgewith_, privet; _griglans_, heath; _padzypaw_ (from _padzar_, four?), the small gray lizard;
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861
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` rough hair, 'and skaw, itself from ON meaning ` promontory.'
fbharjo commented on the word skaw
the northmost of the North sea: see example sentence from Verbatim above ' rough hair'
April 1, 2012