Speel
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Speel is a verb meaning (dialect, Scottish and Northern English) To climb.
Meaning
(dialect, Scottish and Northern English) To climb.
More Meanings
- To talk at length, to spiel.
- (dialect, Australia) To run.
- (Cumbria, Lincolnshire) A splinter; a strip of wood or metal.
- (chiefly South Africa) A story; a spiel.
- (dialectal, rustic, Northern England, Scotland) A game.
- (dialectal, rustic, Northern England, Scotland) To lake, play, sport, take amusement.
Example Sentences
To speel ba'.
To play a good speel.
They were catched speeling up the lamp-posts and taking oot the cruizes and drinking the ulye, wick and a′.
1973, Irene Baird, Waste Heritage, Macmillan of Canada, page 262, “I must close now or I shall go on speeling all night. […] ”
Word Forms
- speels
- speeling
- speeled
- speil
- spele
- speal
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include climb, clive, climber, swarve, play, escalate.
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