Meaning of speel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To climb.
   Northern-English, Scottish, dialectal
2. To talk at length, to spiel.
3. To run.
   Australia, dialectal
4. To lake, play, sport, take amusement.
   Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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. […] ””

“To speel ba'.”

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