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Skurry vs Skerry - What's the difference?

skurry | skerry |

As nouns the difference between skurry and skerry

is that skurry is while skerry is a small rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms.

As a verb skurry

is .

skurry

English

Noun

(skurries)

    • Verb

    • (Webster 1913)

    skerry

    English

    (wikipedia skerry)

    Noun

    (skerries)
  • A small rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms.
  • * 1805 , George Barry, History of the Orkney Islands , I:
    • The Seal (phoca vitulina'', Lin. Syft.) which is here generally known by the name of ''selchy , is very common on most of our low shores, but particularly on those of the small holms and remote skerries , where it is frequently seen reposing and basking in the sun [...].
  • * 1997 , Bernard Scudder, translating ‘Egil's Saga’, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, p. 46:
    • Grim the Halogalander's crew sailed along Borgarfjord beyond the skerries , then cast anchor until the storm died down and the weather brightened up.
  • * 2000 , Jeremy Gaskell, Who Killed the Great Auk? , Oxford 2000, p. 20:
    • The three men proceeded, with a little difficulty, to scale the skerry , finding Gannets and Guillemots on the upper reaches.