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Detach vs Speel - What's the difference?

detach | speel |

As verbs the difference between detach and speel

is that detach is to take apart from; to take off while speel is (dialect|scottish and northern english) to climb.

As a noun speel is

(dialect) a splinter; a strip of wood or metal.

detach

English

Verb

(es)
  • To take apart from; to take off.
  • to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment
  • (military) To separate for a special object or use.
  • to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment

    Antonyms

    * attach

    Derived terms

    * detachable * detachment

    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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