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skerry

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skerry Chiefly Scot
1. a small rocky island
2. a reef

skerry [′sker·ē]
(geology)
A low, small, rugged and rocky island or reef.


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He is assigned to measure depths along the coast to chart new shipping paths, and while performing his task, he encounters a barren skerry [a rocky isle along a coastline] on which a woman lives.
People following it at the time knew that employer sanctions would be a joke without secure means of identification," says Peter Skerry, a political scientist at Boston College.
He doesn't even get paid to do what he does, but he's done it for nine years," observed Police Chief Howard Skerry.
 
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