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speel - What does it mean?

Definition of 'speel'

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (dialect|Scottish and Northern English) To climb.
  • * 1832 March 5, Memoirs of a Paisley Baillie'', ''The Day: A Journal of Literature, Fine Arts, Fashions, &c. , Glasgow, page 218,
    • This I thocht at the time when he was speeling up the ladder before me in the Hie Kirk steeple ; but good breeding, at that particular time, keeped me from taking ony correck view of how things stood in that quarter.
  • * 1841 , Humorous Traits of an Old Highland Gentleman'', ''Chambers? Edinburgh Journal , Volume 9, Numbers 317-318, page 94,
    • They were catched speeling up the lamp-posts and taking oot the cruizes and drinking the ulye, wick and a?.
  • * 1860 , Hugh MacDonald, Days at the Coast: A Series of Sketches Descriptive of the Firth of Clyde , Glasgow, page 255,
    • There is a comfortable inn at this picturesque spot, where those who purpose speeling the lofty Ben generally prepare for their arduous undertaking.
  • To talk at length, to spiel.
  • * 1972 , Sven Berlin, Pride of the Peacock: The Evolution of an Artist , page 91,
    • Old Saxon, who was so sweet and gentle despite his long years on the halls, smiled at me and suggested I should do some speeling . Yedo gave me a megaphone. I held it to my mouth but there was silence.
  • * 1973 , Irene Baird, Waste Heritage , Macmillan of Canada, page 262,
    • “I must close now or I shall go on speeling all night.”
  • (dialect|Australia) To run.

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (dialect) A splinter; a strip of wood or metal.
  • (chiefly|South Africa) A story; a spiel.
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    Similar to 'speel'

    spell, spoil, spool, shovel, sepal, sibyl, swivel, spiel, spill, spall, sapful, sabal, spawl, spial, skyful, sobful, shpeal, shpiel, scopal, spiall