Levee vs Spetchel - What's the difference?
levee | spetchel |
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.
(US) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
(obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
* Gray
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 414:
A reception of visitors held after getting up.
A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
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To attend the levee or levees of.
* Young
A levee or dike made from stones laid in horizontal rows with a bed of thin turf between each of them.
Artificial_levees
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* 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=PA660v=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=PA152v=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
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)Synonyms
* (embankment) dike, floodwallVerb
- to levee a river
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the sun's levee
- The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox
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Verb
- He levees all the great.