Визначення слова «speel» мовою англійська

verb

1. (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.
   • 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.

verb

1. To talk at length, to spiel.

   • 1973, Irene Baird, Waste Heritage, Macmillan of Canada, page 262, “I must close now or I shall go on speeling all night. […] ”

verb

1. (dialect, Australia) To run.

noun

1. (chiefly South Africa) A story; a spiel.

noun

1. (Cumbria, Lincolnshire) A splinter; a strip of wood or metal.

noun

1. (dialectal, rustic, Northern England, Scotland) A game.

   • To play a good speel.

verb

1. (dialectal, rustic, Northern England, Scotland) To lake, play, sport, take amusement.

   • To speel ba'.