"skene-dhu" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "sgian dubh"
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          "ref": "1827, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume I (The Two Drovers), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 302:",
          "text": "Give me my skene-dhu, and let me go on my road. I should have been half way to Stirling brig by this time—Give me my dirk, and let me go.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1831, Andrew Picken, “The Deer-stalkers of Glenskiach. A Highland Legend.”, in [Andrew Picken], editor, The Club-book: Being Original Tales, &c. […] (Harper’s Library of Select Novels; XIV), Harper’s stereotype edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] J[ames] & J[ohn] Harper; […], →OCLC, chapter IX, page 133:",
          "text": "In another moment claymores and skene-dhus gleamed in the grasp of several uplifted hands; [...]",
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        "Alternative spelling of sgian dubh"
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          "text": "Give me my skene-dhu, and let me go on my road. I should have been half way to Stirling brig by this time—Give me my dirk, and let me go.",
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          "text": "In another moment claymores and skene-dhus gleamed in the grasp of several uplifted hands; [...]",
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