Call to the keeners to follow her with screams and beating of the hands and calling out!
Keeners are persons who sing the Ulican, or death wail, round the coffin of the deceased, and repeat the good deeds of the departed.
But you wouldn't have keeners for the Tithe, would you?
The Irish keeners are invariably women, as also are all the continental dirge-singers of modern times.
The keeners may or may not be professional, and the keens are more often of a traditional than of an improvised description.
But if when any one died Came keeners hoarser than rooks, He bade them give over their keening; For he was a man of books.
The story in the poem is founded on an old Gaelic ballad that was sung and translated for me by a woman at Ballisodare in County Sligo; but in the ballad the husband found the keeners keening his wife when he got to his house.
The keeners were swaying themselves to and fro, there where they waited in the next room.
The folks gived them their wake whilst they were here to enjoy it and them was the keeners that was goin' hippety with lame legs and fine joy down the convanient alley for beer, God bless the poor souls!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keeners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
