speeling

Verb (1)

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

1. (Northern-English, Scottish, dialectal) To climb.
   • 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.1832 March 5, Memoirs of a Paisley Baillie, The Day: A Journal of Literature, Fine Arts, Fashions, &c., Glasgow, page 218

Verb (2)

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

1. To talk at length, to spiel.
   • 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.1972, Sven Berlin, Pride of the Peacock: The Evolution of an Artist, page 91

Verb (3)

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

1. (Australia, dialectal) To run.

Verb (4)

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

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

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