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levee | spetchel |

As a verb levee

is .

As a noun spetchel is

a levee or dike made from stones laid in horizontal rows with a bed of thin turf between each of them.

levee

English

(wikipedia levee)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
  • (US) The steep bank of a river, or border of an irrigated field.
  • (US) A pier or other landing place on a river.
  • Synonyms
    * (embankment) dike, floodwall

    Verb

  • (US) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
  • to levee a river

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
  • * Gray
  • the sun's levee
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 414:
  • The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox
  • A reception of visitors held after getting up.
  • A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1992 , year_published=1993 , author= Hilary Mantel , title=A Place of Greater Safety citation , isbn=9780689121685 , page=195 , passage=At the King's levee on the morning of the 13th, Philippe was first ignored; then asked by His Majesty (rudely) what he wanted; then told, ‘Get back where you came from.’ }}

    Verb

  • To attend the levee or levees of.
  • * Young
  • He levees all the great.
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    spetchel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A levee or dike made from stones laid in horizontal rows with a bed of thin turf between each of them.
  • References

    * http://www.reference.com/browse/dike_%28construction%29 * http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100214072151AAUwd3T * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levee
  • Artificial_levees
  • * http://knowledgeonlandforms.blogspot.com/2009/04/levees.html * http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=70386367-9596-4834-b4f1-a2aa606c4d53&log=y&decrypt= * http://www.answers.com/topic/levee * http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/durhamdialect/newcnth.htm * http://www.unfogged.com/archives/comments_8954.html
  • 872258
  • * http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=22064800 * http://www.razorrobotics.com/knowledge/?title=Dike_%28flood_prevention%29 * http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/topics/Levee::sub::Artificial_Levees * http://uk.ask.com/wiki/Lev%C3%A9e * http://books.google.com/books?id=eGghAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA660&ots=cXiYqZBhFm&dq=spetchel%20dike&pg=PA660
  • v=onepage&q=spetchel%20dike&f=false - The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years by Joseph Wright
  • * http://books.google.com/books?id=qzouAAAAYAAJ&dq=spetchel&pg=PA152
  • v=onepage&q=spetchel&f=false - A glossary of North country words, with their etymology, and affinity to other languages by John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett