† skaynv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To graze, scrape. N.E.D. (1911) gave quot. c1400 as the only evidence for an adjective skayved, glossed as ‘Meaning uncertain’, following the reading skayued given in R. Morris Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (1864). However Morris gives skayned as a possible alternative reading, and later editions of the poem, including that of 1940 cited below, agree that this is the reading in the manuscript.
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c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2167 Þe skweȝ of þe scowtes skayned hym þoȝt.
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