Definitions for skerry

skerry sker·ry

Spelling: [sker-ee]
IPA: /ˈskɛr i/

Skerry is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in skerry (ekrrsy).

Definitions for skerry

noun

  1. a small, rocky island.
  2. a coastline with a series of such islands offshore.

Origin of skerry

1605-15; Shetland dial. skerri a rock in the sea Old Norse sker (genitive plural skerja) rock or reef (in the sea). See scar2

Examples for skerry

Whatever was pinkish of it was now hidden by a skerry of weedy boulders.

So, they had considered it, and found that to tarry on the skerry longer was impossible.

North of us are two small islets and a small rock or skerry.

And you would be an Ansgarius and introduce Christianity on the skerry?

I do not know,' says Leif, 'whether it is a ship or a skerry that I see.'

I do not know,” says Leif, “whether it is a ship or a skerry that I see.

With skill and caution Yaspard brought his boat alongside of the skerry.

But you cannot do that and now you shall learn the reason and meaning of my stay on this skerry!

He was ahint the skerry when we were in the geo, and heard a'.

He turned and stood on another tack to sail round the skerry.

Word Value for skerry
Scrable

13

Words with friends

12

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