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skena

“skena” is a Swedish word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a rail (metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad)
  2. a splint (segment of armor)
  3. a splint (immobilizing device)
  4. a blade, a runner (e.g. on ice skates)
  5. a splint (narrow strip of wood used for basketweaving)

verb

  1. to bolt, to run off (especially of a horse)
  2. to soar, to rise (of prices and the like)

Etymology

From Old Swedish skena, from Middle Low German schene, from Old Saxon scina, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Influenced by German Schiene. First attested in 1478.

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