skekill

skekill
(pl. skeklar), m. shank of a hide; cf. eyjarskekill, landskekill.
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(better skekkill with kk), m. dimin., [skiki: akin to Engl. shank]:—the shanks or legs of an animal’s skin when stretched out, hence út-skekill, an outskirt, of a land or field, tún-skekill, land-skekill, q. v.
II. as a nickname, Sturl.: the mythol. name of a sea-king, Edda.

An Icelandic-English dictionary. . 1874.

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