skeel
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse skjóla, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *skeulǭ.
Noun
skeel (plural skeels)
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A washtub.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “skeel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Scots
Noun
skeel (countable and uncountable, plural skeels)