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Speel vs Seel - What's the difference?

speel | seel |

As nouns the difference between speel and seel

is that speel is (dialect) a splinter; a strip of wood or metal while seel is rope, cord.

As a verb speel

is (dialect|scottish and northern english) to climb.

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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    seel

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
  • (UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
    • the seel of the day
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
  • * J. Reading
    • Fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling.
  • (by extension) To blind.

    • Etymology 4

    Compare (etyl) , and (etyl) (m) (transitive verb).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
  • * Samuel Pepys
    • (Sir Walter Raleigh)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
    • (Sandys)

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