Speel vs Speet - What's the difference?
speel | speet |
(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,
* 1841 , Humorous Traits of an Old Highland Gentleman'', ''Chambers? Edinburgh Journal , Volume 9, Numbers 317-318,
* 1860 , Hugh MacDonald, Days at the Coast: A Series of Sketches Descriptive of the Firth of Clyde , Glasgow,
To talk at length, to spiel.
* 1972 , Sven Berlin, Pride of the Peacock: The Evolution of an Artist ,
* 1973 , Irene Baird, Waste Heritage , Macmillan of Canada,
(dialect, Australia) To run.
(dialect) A splinter; a strip of wood or metal.
(chiefly, South Africa) A story; a spiel.
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As verbs the difference between speel and speet
is that speel is (dialect|scottish and northern english) to climb while speet is (obsolete|transitive) to stab.As a noun speel
is (dialect) a splinter; a strip of wood or metal.speel
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)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.
page 94,
- They were catched speeling up the lamp-posts and taking oot the cruizes and drinking the ulye, wick and a?.
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.
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.
page 262,
- “I must close now or I shall go on speeling all night.”