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skinne

Pronunciation: /skenə/

“skinne” is a Danish word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. rail
  2. band
  3. splint
  4. rail (of a railway or tramway)

verb

  1. shine
  2. gleam
  3. glimmer

Etymology

From Middle Low German schene (“little plate”) or from German Schiene (“rail, splint”), from Old Saxon or Old High German skina, all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skinu (“track, bar”).

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