Skimmelk steed

• skim milk steed: a small statue of a white horse in the fanlight above the front door of HCE's tavern → many Protestants in Dublin displayed such as a symbol of their loyalty to the crown; the horse resembles the white horse supposedly ridden by William III at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690

• skimmel: (Danish) whitegrey horse → FW 111.30 meltwhile horse = milkwhite horse

• melk: (Dutch) milk

• skim milk: fatless milk from which the cream has been removed

• stood still