A sharp or cutting tool with a thin, flat blade, often used for cutting or shaping wood.
Skeanes are often used by people who work with wood, like carpenters or woodcarvers.
Examples:
The carpenter used a skeanes to carve the wood.
She carefully used the skeanes to shape the block of wood.
He keeps his skeanes in a special case.
The woodcarver's favorite skeanes is very sharp.
The old man's skeanes is as old as he is.
The skeanes made a loud noise as it cut through the wood.