skreen
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
skreen (plural skreens)
- Obsolete form of screen.
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 84:
- “All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?” “Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover skreens, and net purses. I scarcely know any one who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished.” “Your list of the common extent of accomplishments,” said Darcy, “has too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse, or covering a skreen. […]”
- 1849, G. C. Greenwell, A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham:
- [The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day.
Verb[edit]
skreen (third-person singular simple present skreens, present participle skreening, simple past and past participle skreened)