Skeel

//skiːl// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. Scotland, UK, dialectal

    "The dairywoman now rolls the whole into one lump[…], closing the fingers, partially, at every stroke; thereby leaving it at the bottom of the skeel, exceedingly rough."

  2. 2
    A washtub. Scotland, UK, dialectal

Example

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"The dairywoman now rolls the whole into one lump[…], closing the fingers, partially, at every stroke; thereby leaving it at the bottom of the skeel, exceedingly rough."

Etymology

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

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