skeel

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

• IPA^(key): /skiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

skeel (plural skeels)

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.
   • 1789, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of Gloucestershire:

     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. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A washtub.

• “skeel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Keels, Klees, Leske, Selke, elkes, keels, leeks, sleek

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skeel (countable and uncountable, plural skeels)

1. skill