| Summary: | skerwink n Sherwink Point, SKERWINK POINT (NTS Old Perlican) . . . The name is repeated in Skerwink Head (NTS Trinity) . . . . but a first recording of the name as late as 1689 (or 1675) lends support to a conjectural derivation from either skirwink - to pare off turf for burning, an obsolete Devon dialect word, or scurwink - a kind of sea-bird, a shearwater, also known as haigdown or hagdown. PRINTED ITEM JAN 1972 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used scurwink, spurwink, Shearwater, HAGDOWN, skirwink. The source is not listed in DNE but the card is stamped.
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