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Sheal vs Sweal - What's the difference?

sheal | sweal |

As verbs the difference between sheal and sweal

is that sheal is to shell (remove husks, shells etc while sweal is to burn slowly.

As a noun sheal

is a shell or pod.

sheal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) A shell or pod.
  • A shieling

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shell (remove husks, shells etc)
  • * Shakespeare, King Lear
    • That's a shealed peascod.
  • To shelter under a shieling

    • sweal

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To burn slowly.
  • To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
  • (dialectal) To consume with fire; burn.
  • (dialectal) To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:Here!—But you know, they can sweal a tumour away.

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