skreen
English
Noun
skreen (plural skreens)
- Obsolete form of screen.
- 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.
- 1849, G. C. Greenwell, A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham
Verb
skreen (third-person singular simple present skreens, present participle skreening, simple past and past participle skreened)
- Obsolete form of screen.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for skreen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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