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Skute vs Scute - What's the difference?

skute | scute |

In obsolete terms the difference between skute and scute

is that skute is a boat; a small vessel while scute is a small shield.

skute

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A boat; a small vessel.
  • * Sir R. Williams
    • They carried with them all the skutes and boats that might be found.

    scute

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 71:
  • *:Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.
  • (genetics) A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
  • (obsolete) A small shield.
    • (Skelton)
  • (historical) An old French gold coin.

    • Synonyms

    * scutum

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