skeel

English

Etymology

From Old Norse skjóla, from Proto-Germanic *skeulǭ.

Noun

skeel (plural skeels)

  1. (Britain, Scotland, dialectal) A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.
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  2. (Britain, Scotland, dialectal) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Scots

Noun

skeel (countable and uncountable, plural skeels)

  1. skill
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